Board and staff

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.

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.

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.