New recognition for the role of arts in public health
Better evaluation and wider sharing of research findings is seen as a priority for developing the most effective and efficient art…
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Choirs promote community wellbeing, says new report
A project that created eight new community singing projects in deprived areas, and evaluated them using research methods grounded…
Arts included in wellbeing measures
A review of the criteria for tracking the nation’s wellbeing sees arts participation included for the first time.
Job Ladder
The new Executive Director of Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, Judith Kilvington, guides us through her career to date.
A funding fog
Kate Massey-Chase discusses the impact of personal budgets on participants at CoolTan Arts.
The art of healing
Hospitals do not have to be about sterile rooms, uncertainty and isolation as Mark Norbury has proved at the Chelsea and Westminst…
A numbers perspective
In the second of three edited extracts from 'Fireworks', his book of provocation essays, Dan Eastmond quantifies a d…
Older men moving
Fergus Early is excited about the funding Green Candle Dance Company has secured for a dance and exercise project for groups of ol…
Creativity despite dementia
Veronica Franklin Gould of Arts 4 Dementia discusses how partnership projects are benefiting people with dementia by reviving…
BollyWalking to better health
‘Ageing artfully’ has introduced vulnerable older people to BollyWalking. Christina Christou and John Pinder of Akadem…
Paying for the positive impact
Although there is increasing interest from health and social care providers in engaging older people in arts activity, a huge chal…
Playing in old age
Paul Cann believes that the longstanding exclusion of older people from the arts will be changing thanks to a new online initiativ…
Study finds benefits of singing for older people
A study into community singing for older people has found it has noticeable wellbeing and mental health benefits. By monitoring fi…
National Lottery sales unaffected by Health Lottery
Sales of tickets to play National Lottery games were largely unaffected by the launch of The Health Lottery, a new independent rep…
Health and Wellbeing conference welcome submissions
Those who work in the area of arts, health and wellbeing, are being invited to submit abstracts for presentations, workshops and p…
New body for Arts and Wellbeing
A new body has been created to raise awareness of the impact the arts can have on health and wellbeing, it will aim to bring toget…
The public debate that was never ours
Susan Oman says the measures for assessing national wellbeing will be irrelevant before we even begin measuring
Arts excluded from national wellbeing measures
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published the list of the ‘domains and measures’ that will be used from n…
Camelot loses its fight with new lottery
National Lottery revenues are still under threat following a High Court decision that effectively puts an end to Camelot’s b…
Fur coat and no knickers
Clive Parkinson sees the danger of arts/health practice becoming a “bland cultural sub-species, offering the marginalised a tran…
Wellbeing behind bars
Dr Alan Clarke shares what he has learnt from a career running arts projects in prisons across Europe
13 Hours: lucky for some
William Wong asks what can the arts do more of and differently to encourage mindfulness?
Practice what you preach?
Hannah Hull discusses the paradox of being an arts and wellbeing advocate
A burden shared
Can personal wellbeing improve when we start to focus on others’ wellbeing? Matthew Taylor describes a mental health project tha…
