Board and staff

A picture of the new Board Designate for the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance
Ellie Grace Photography

Board

Independence:

The Alliance is in the process of becoming an independent organisation. The Alliance was brought into being thanks to the support of Arts & Health South West, who have hosted the organisation, applied for and held its funding, and currently provide governance through the Arts & Health Southwest board. Arts & Health South West also manage our relationship with the All Party Parliamentary Group for Arts, Health & Wellbeing (currently dissolved due to the pre-election period).

We will become an independent organisation in 2020, and as part of this process we have appointed a Board Designate.

Board Designate:

Our Board Designate members are Rosie Dow (Breathe Arts Health Research); Ben Pearce (Paintings in Hospitals); Deborah Munt (Ministry of Others); Thanh Sinden (Museum Detox); and Esme Ward (Manchester Museum) – who is our Chair Designate. (You can read a short interview with each of them by clicking the links on their names.)

We will be appointing further Trustees in 2020 through an open call.

The Board will ultimately link directly to our Strategic Alliance Members and Partners, our regional champions, the APPG, and the LENS, to ensure that governance remains firmly linked to the work of CHWA’s members. 

Please get in touch if you would like to know more.

Staff

The Alliance has two part time staff: a Director and a Coordinator.

a portrait of Victroia Hume
Ellie Grace Photography

Victoria Hume
Director

Victoria Hume is Director of the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance. She has a background as a composer, researcher and project manager specialising in culture, health and wellbeing, and was an arts manager for the NHS for 15 years. From 2010-2013 she was chair of London Arts in Health Forum and was the founding chair for the National Alliance for Arts, Health & Wellbeing in 2012. She is also a Research Associate in the medical humanities at WiSER (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg), helping to support the Medical & Health Humanities Africa Network, and establishing a new module in hospital-based performance for the university's division of music. In 2017 she received a distinction for a Masters in Music and Health Communication focused on hospital-induced delirium. She continues to write and release music through Lost Map Records, based on the Isle of Eigg.

a portrait of Hayley Youell
Ellie Grace Photography

Hayley Youell
Coordinator

Hayley is a creative collaborator and musician based in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and a passionate and experienced practitioner who has worked across sectors and communities to make things happen; be it a pop-up event on the streets of Barnsley, a takeover at the National Museum Conference or the development of an award-winning multi-strand partnership programme bringing the arts, health and cultural sectors together.

Responding to the needs of her local community, Hayley co-founded a grassroots, people-led charity, Creative Recovery that uses creativity to support recovery, boost wellbeing and bring about social change. With over 10 years’ experience of developing and delivering arts for health interventions within acute mental health settings, prisons and museums, Hayley has expertise and a deep understanding of the challenges that face the sector and the impact of this work.

Her new role with the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance aligns with the vision and values that drive her to work to make the transformative power of creativity and culture accessible for all.