Promoting Creativity and Culture for Health and Wellbeing
Empowering a healthy world through creativity and imagination, the Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance advocates for the integration of culture into health and wellbeing. With a collaborative and inclusive approach, they prioritize strategic priorities such as partnership, equity, and sustainability. The organization, structured around a vast alliance of members, is funded through investment principles and supports various initiatives like the Creative Health Quality Framework and leadership programs.
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https://culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk Twitter @CHWAlliance Contact info@culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk
Vision, Mission & Values Our vision: Our vision: A healthy world powered by our creativity and imagination Our mission: Our mission: To build a common understanding that creativity and culture are integral to health and wellbeing. We are: We are: Collaborative, Caring, Inclusive, Committed to positive social change Breathe Arts Health Research, Breathing Bodies; photo by Richard Eaton
How we work Advocacy Networks Resources Mike, a Manchester Museum Museum from Home activity pack volunteer, holding a crate of packs ready to be delivered
Strategic Priorities Partnership Equity Sustainability Red Earth Collective: Menologues
How were structured CHWA is an alliance of 6000 members who are all invested in creative health in one way CHWA is an alliance of 6000 members who are all invested in creative health in one way or another . or another . The Staff do the work of bringing this alliance together in different ways The Board provide the governance holding the organisation accountable to its promises Our Regional Champions (volunteers) help advocate for creative health, support local and regional networks, and provide information on what s happening around the country We are part of a larger Creative health family with the National Centre for Creative Health and the LENs (lived experience network) Within our membership are a number of Strategic Alliance Members national organisations who play a significant role in the national picture of creative health We have lots of other partnerships
How were funded: Investment principles support organisation Arts Council England Investment Principles Supporr Organisation (IPSO) This covers our regular offer, including Ongoing sector research to understand and communicate barriers and enablers Bulletin / website Creativity & Wellbeing Week annually in May Conference every 2 years (2023 & 5) National conference (11-13 October, Barnsley) International conference (2025 Bradford?) CHWA Awards every 2 years (2024 & 6) Specific activity is supported by additional grants .
2023-4 Roll out and evaluate the new Creative Health Quality Framework (QF) Creative Health sector survey Leadership programmes for 18 CHWA volunteer regional champions and LENs champions New North regional post to catalyse systems change across Barnsley & South Yorkshire, with a wider advocacy remit across the North of the country Events including 3-day national conference in Barnsley (11-13 October) Creativity & Wellbeing Week in partnership with London Arts and Health (15-21 May) Closed regional lived experience events with Age of Creativity (June) Themed partnership events inc. x2 Fair Pay events in April/May in partnership with the Arts for Social Outcomes Network
Creative Health Quality Framework In development for launch Sept 2023 Developed with c150 experts across the sector Supports practice development Improves working conditions Enable best use of resources Supports partnership development Improves participant experience and outcomes Advocates for Creative Health practice Informs funding criteria and decisions Guides research and evaluation
Creative Health UK-wide survey Conducted Feb-April 2023 203 respondents in total (sector likely 10,000+)
Freelancers I don t get paid for much of the work I do. I do it because I believe it s important and hope that I will get paid eventually. 60 freelance respondents (describing creative health earnings in the last financial year) 7 earning under 1,000, 3 earning nothing. The remaining 50 earned an average of 11,500 last year. On average this = 52% of freelancers total income. Where creative health =100% of freelancers income, earnings averaged 15,000 p.a. Where people shared standard day rates, these ranged from 150-800 ( 800 being an outlier, applied only to businesses). They average at 315 p.d. 41% of freelancers are members of a Union.
Organisations 94 organisations (describing creative health spend in the last financial year) 3 spent under 1,000 last year; 3 spent nothing. The remaining 86 spent an average of 151,000 in the last year on creative health. This represented an average 67% of their total turnover.
Where the money is coming from
Organisations vs Freelancers
NHS funding across UK An MOU between the Welsh NHS Confederation and Arts Council of Wales has resulted in significant joint investment since 2018 into capacity building posts across all the Welsh Health Boards missing from this survey; this joint investment was shown clearly to have improved health and wellbeing in NHS patients, staff, wider population in a November 2022 report.
What do you need most to help you in your work at the moment?
Whats getting funded? As a funder, we are not currently reflecting true costs of partnerships, reflective practice, staff/volunteer wellbeing support etc in grants awarded; these unacceptable gaps are for many structural and sector reasons. We intend to address these significant gaps ahead eg through investment principles of organisational sustainability and inclusion, access and participation
What do you need most now to help you do your work? A real buy in from decision makers about the need for real 'actionable change . We must move away from playing small. Co-investment from NHS in this work, so that not all project activity has to be funded by those delivering it. Practical contacts with and to individuals in networks to be the starting point for collaboration and joint planning. Understanding and better links into the practicalities of social prescribing. Money and time! More worker hours but we don't have the funding, and we don't have the funding or time to cover fundraising very easily. Management support is lacking in my organisation at the moment as no director for the organisation. Funders with transparency who build relationships with organisations and have a straight forward application process. EOI really help to minimise work load.
