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CHWA conference 2023 (c) Michael Aiden photography

Connecting creativity, culture and health

Building a more equitable alliance

Creativity & Wellbeing Week

It's nearly Creativity & Wellbeing Week! We're co-curating a special edition of the Big Issue with London Arts and Health and Arts and Homelessness International to celebrate the week...

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Callout for CHWA conference 2026! Deadline 1 June

We're looking for creative activities, discussions and an artist residency for our conference, 7-9 October at Barnsley Civic. We warmly encourage proposals from creatives, practitioners and communities working across arts, health and education settings who are often excluded from access, visibility and leadership within the cultural and health sectors, including people of diverse racial and cultural heritages, LGBTQ+ communities, Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people, people living with long-term health conditions, and younger people.

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Training hub

Explore training courses relevant to creative health. If you are running training that you'd like to share, you can submit your training to us to upload. 

Training hub

Practitioner Support & Wellbeing resource

This new collection of resources brings together over 70 initiatives supporting creative health practitioners' health and wellbeing, from blogs and toolkits to training and videos.

Practitioner Support and Wellbeing resource

Creative Health Quality Framework

The Creative Health Quality Framework is a ground-breaking tool that clearly articulates what “good” looks like for creative and cultural initiatives that aim to support people’s health and wellbeing.

The Creative Health Quality Framework

The LENs

The LENs is a critical friend to CHWA, a network devoted to ensuring the voice of lived experience is central to policy and practice.

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The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance is a national membership organisation representing everyone who believes that creativity and cultural engagement can transform our health and wellbeing. Join us here.