Board and staff

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Board

Our Board of Non-Executive Directors is Thahmina Begum (Co-Chair); Rosie Dow (UCL); Nuala Morse (University of Leicester); Deborah Munt (Ministry of Others); Trishna Nath (UnLtd); Matt Walsh (Co-Chair); and Jemilea Wisdom-Baako (Writerz & Scribez). You can read a short interview with each of them by clicking the links on their names.

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

President

Lord Howarth of Newport is president of the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance. Lord Howarth has recently stepped down from his position as co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Arts, Health & Wellbeing and has been a committed and inspiring advocate for and supporter of culture, health and wellbeing for many years.

 

Former Directors include Thanh Sinden (Thanh Sinden Consulting / Founder & Director, Hoa Lotus); Esmé Ward (Manchester Museum); Angela Awuah (Mental Health the Arts); and Ben Pearce (freelance).

Staff

The Alliance has 5 permanent members of staff: Executive Director, National Programmes and Events Lead, Regional Leads for the North and Midlands, and an Administration and Social Media Lead. We also have a Programme Lead for the Working Together programme and work with a number of consultants and freelancers.

 

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Victoria Hume
Executive Director

Victoria Hume is Executive Director of the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance.

Victoria was an arts manager in the NHS for 15 years before pursuing arts in health in South Africa for 5 years, including setting up a new module in hospital-based performance for the University of the Witwatersrand and managing a three-year, Wellcome-funded drama and diabetes programme with Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. She is also a composer and researcher specialising in culture, health and wellbeing, and has 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 Eigg.

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Fiona Moon
National Programmes & Events Lead

Fiona Moon is an arts facilitator, manager and writer with a background in theatre and a Masters from CSSD. Her passions within creative health are particularly around mental health and wellbeing, arts inclusion and arts for social mobility/ impact. Her writing spans from naturalistic plays to nonsense poetry, and has been shortlisted for various writing awards. She is also a keen walker/proud campervan owner, and tries to spend as much time as possible in nature. She is in the process of applying for a PhD in Creative Writing, looking at trauma informed facilitation within community settings.

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Rachel Massey
North Regional Lead

Rachel has over 20 years’ experience of working in Creative Health as an artist, project coordinator and consultant. She previously led Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Art and Wellbeing programme and coordinated a county-wide creative health programme for Arts Derbyshire. She also worked in the health sector as a manager at Live Well Wakefield, a large-scale social prescribing programme. She joined Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance in 2023 as their North Regional Lead. She also leads Other Ways to Walk, which she founded in 2016 to help people connect with nature using creative & mindful approaches.

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Luisa Golob
Barnsley Creative Health Lead

Luisa has always worked within the charity sector and has been fundraising for charities since she was 12 years old! Starting her career working for Barnardos Voice and Influence service in Barnsley working with young people, moving to Leeds City Council running arts events and Music Industry competitions and then running a chat room for chronically ill children for the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Luisa became the CEO of Ignite Imaginations for 16 years (HOME | igniteimaginations), a participatory visual arts organisation in Sheffield. Her passion here was to ensure people from all walks of life had equitable access to creative local experiences and opportunities to work in the sector. As a volunteer she ran the Sharrow Lantern Carnival for 14 years (Creativity and Community | Sharrow Lantern Carnival | Sheffield) an amazing community lantern parade in Sheffield, and had previously been on the steering group for SNAP and Sheffield Arts and Wellbeing Network and a board member and chair for the Sheffield Creative Guild. Sheffield Creative Guild Homepage Video. Alongside her partner, they ran an award winning microbrewery On the Edge Brewery | Facebook from their house for many years and they now have two small children.

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Kheyla Anderson
Administration & Social Media Lead

Kheyla has always had an invested interest in the wellbeing of others. Following the birth of her son in 2014, she founded Mother Nature’s Recipes, a company that focuses on making room for the necessity of self-care and community in motherhood from a holistic perspective. She also co-founds Birthing In Colour, a charitable organisation that creates safe spaces online for black and brown birthing bodies and is qualified as a Peer Supporter for the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers.

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Louise Campion
Project Lead for Working Together

Louise Campion is Head of Learning & Engagement at the Holburne Museum in Bath. As part of this role she manages Pathways to Wellbeing a well-established Creative Health programme involving a partnership of 4 museums in Bath. She is also Project Lead for Working Together – Culture Health & Wellbeing Alliance and GEM (Group for Education in Museums) 

Louise has had a meandering career path from secondary school art teacher to delivering PSHE and emotional health and wellbeing work, community youth projects, project evaluation and latterly learning and community engagement in the heritage sector. The connecting thread is a core belief in the power of cultural engagement and creativity to promote connection, mental health and social equality.


 

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Laura Phillips
Midlands Regional Lead

Laura has two roles, working part time as the Midlands Lead for the Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance, and the rest of the time in a job share as Head of Curation at Derby Museums. She has worked across Derby’s Museum and Art Gallery, Pickfords’ House and Museum of Making sites since 2019.

Laura is particularly interested in how to make heritage relevant and valuable to local communities. Her work focuses on exploration of age friendly and intergenerational practice, ways of working that connect culture, health and wellbeing, participatory and equitable practice and building mutual relationships. As well as enjoying working face to face on the delivery of programmes, she like the challenge of trying to increase impact through strategic, interdisciplinary work at scale.

Find out more about our regional champions

Find out more about our strategic alliance members

 

The Alliance was brought into being thanks to the support of Arts & Health South West, who hosted the organisation, applied for and held its funding, and provided governance through the Arts & Health Southwest board from 2017-2019.