Creativity and Wellbeing Week (C&WW) 2025 focussed on engaging with diverse practitioners, sector leaders, and regional organisations to spotlight the incredible impact of the creative health sector in the country.
Led by the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance (CHWA) and London Arts and Health, we wanted to create a truly collaborative festival, encouraging curiosity and listening within the Creative Health sector. We wanted to engage with community organisations, practitioners, and participants across the country to understand their approach to and experience of creative health practices while asking the key question of the challenges of sustaining such work and impact.
The theme of Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2025 was ‘New Horizons,’ and both Drashti (Project and Comms Manager at LAH) and Kheyla (Administration and Social Comms Lead at CHWA) were tasked with encouraging curiosity and listening throughout the Creative Health sector. Highlighting diverse practitioners and orgranisations influencing change, both nationally and within local community circles was key in their approach to curating the National Festival of Creative Health. Through the appointing of Creative Health Ambassadors supporting neurodivergence, youth communities, vulnerable groups and the Global Majority, they used social media to showcase their impact and lean into existing networks to extend the reach of Creativity and Wellbeing Week amongst underrepresented groups.
The festival was hugely successful and truly embodied the spirit of co-ownership as the creative health sector participated with such enthusiasm and celebrated the Creativity and Wellbeing Week.
Across the country, creative health organisations and practitioners hosted and submitted over 350 events for the national festival and over 45 blogs for the website, showcasing their work. Through the build-up and during the festival, we had over 30 collaborative posts from the sector on their participation in the Creativity and Wellbeing Week.
Our events had over 300+ attendees with speakers and special features from the stalwarts of creative health, right from emerging practitioners to the experts representative of the communities we serve.
You can read the whole report here.