Creativity Works for Health

Creativity Works for Health Group aims to raise the profile and quality of Pennine Lancashire’s arts and health offer through partnership working, sharing good practice and building strong evidence.

Creativity Works for Health Group is open to individual artists, organisations, creative or health practitioners who deliver, support or have an interest in arts and health within Pennine Lancashire.

Objectives

1/ Projects

Plan and implement arts and health projects across Pennine Lancashire

2/ Mapping

Develop an interactive mapping of the arts and health in Pennine Lancashire

3/ Networking

Provide opportunities for sharing of good practice in arts and health while increasing partnership working

4/ Promotion/Events

Plan a marketing strategy and programme of events that will raise the profile of arts and health activity within in Pennine Lancashire

5/ Evidence

Co-ordinate and improve arts and health data collection to develop a strong evidence base for good arts and health practices

6/ Virtual Networking

Maintain a virtual space that can be used to enhance communication and networking and sharing on a day to day basis

7/ Feedback

Provide information to Creativity Works Executive to support the mission, goals and objectives of Creativity Works

Current Projects

Currently, Creativity Works for Health is developing two areas of focus. Firstly, a mapping of arts and health in Pennine Lancashire to extend the work that has already taken place in Central Lancashire, and secondly, a Pennine Lancashire wide reading development programme. This is currently in the early stages of planning, but it will take literature as the central theme and branch out to incorporate other art forms as well.

If you want to get involved with Creativity Works for Health please contact Kirsty Rose at kirsty.rose@pendle.gov.uk

Current Membership

These organisations and individuals have been represented at previous meetings and receive information on the Creativity Works for Health Group activity.

Creativity Works Executive
Leroy Philbrook - Pendle Leisure Trust

Organisations/Groups/Programmes
A Good Read
Age Concern
Arts on Prescription
Blackburn and Darwin Borough Council
Calderstones NHS Trust
Creative Colours
East Lancashire PCT
Function Factory Theatre
Hoopoe Club
Lancashire County Council Library and Info Service
Nelson and Colne College
Pendle Leisure Trust Healthy Communities Development Team
Dance
Development Burnley
Pendle Neighbourhood Management
Rhang
East Lancs NHS

Artists

Thea Soltau
Tids Pickard