ENRICHING LIVES WITH CREATIVITY
Co-ordinated by OutPost Arts, 'DG Creative Wellbeing' is a ground-breaking regional programme of artistic and cultural opportunities, events and activities that enhance people’s wellbeing, communities, and healthcare environments.
In 2021-22, following the successful delivery of a pilot creative prescribing project in Langholm during lockdown, and with support from SOSE, NHS Endowment Fund and Holywood Trust, OPA carried out a 6-month research and development project to map existing creative wellbeing strategies and stakeholders, scope opportunities, and potential partnerships and identify and co-design next steps via engagement and consultation.
The project marked a significant step forward for creative wellbeing in D&G, with key strategic and delivery partnerships formed as a result. Through these new relationships, we accessed target participant groups – allowing us to pin-point needs, understand barriers, and create responsive programmes of activities.
This work resulted in ‘DG Creative Wellbeing’ – a ground-breaking programme of impactful arts activities, projects events, and interventions across D&G, working in both community AND healthcare settings, with support from an alliance of funders – National Lottery Community Fund, The Holywood Trust, The Robertson Trust, Communities Mental Health & Wellbeing Fund and Dumfries & Galloway Health Board Endowment Fund.
In 2021-22, following the successful delivery of a pilot creative prescribing project in Langholm during lockdown, and with support from SOSE, NHS Endowment Fund and Holywood Trust, OPA carried out a 6-month research and development project to map existing creative wellbeing strategies and stakeholders, scope opportunities, and potential partnerships and identify and co-design next steps via engagement and consultation.
The project marked a significant step forward for creative wellbeing in D&G, with key strategic and delivery partnerships formed as a result. Through these new relationships, we accessed target participant groups – allowing us to pin-point needs, understand barriers, and create responsive programmes of activities.
This work resulted in ‘DG Creative Wellbeing’ – a ground-breaking programme of impactful arts activities, projects events, and interventions across D&G, working in both community AND healthcare settings, with support from an alliance of funders – National Lottery Community Fund, The Holywood Trust, The Robertson Trust, Communities Mental Health & Wellbeing Fund and Dumfries & Galloway Health Board Endowment Fund.
OutPost Arts have formed an important partnership with NHS D&G, coordinating an embedded Art in Healthcare programme across various healthcare sites supported by D&G Health Board Endowment Fund.
A regional cross-sector Creative Wellbeing Network has also been established – creating an accessible platform to share and discuss creative wellbeing themes, nurture collaboration, and amplify art and culture’s important connection to health and wellbeing in our region.
A regional cross-sector Creative Wellbeing Network has also been established – creating an accessible platform to share and discuss creative wellbeing themes, nurture collaboration, and amplify art and culture’s important connection to health and wellbeing in our region.
At a glance: DG Creative Wellbeing -
- Increases partnership/cross-sector working
- Raises awareness/understanding of art’s positive impact on health/wellbeing
- Enhances mental/physical health via early creative intervention
- Increases access to arts/culture, confronting health inequalities
- Supports a formal creative prescribing framework
- Promotes individual AND community resilience
- Forms a connected vision for creative health and wellbeing in D&G
- Shares learning and resources e.g., training, opportunities, evaluation tools
- Embeds art in healthcare and enhances clinical environments
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