National Alliance for Arts Health and Wellbeing

Mosaic
Poetry
Patient on harp
Healing Arts image
Ladder to the Moon - South Pacific
Lime - artist - Suki Chan Radcliffe Primary Health Care Centre
Nordoff Robbins
Arts @ Callington Road. Image by Paul Highnam’

Welcome to the website of the new National Alliance for Arts Health and Wellbeing.  Here you will find a range of resources and examples showing the ways that creative activity can benefit the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. London Arts in Health Forum is supporting the work of the National Alliance so please direct queries to info@lahf.org.uk

Please click here for information about this summer's international conference.

What is Arts in Health?

Ladder to the Moon - South Pacific
Music in Hospitals
MMU - workshop organisers and participants
Healing Arts

Over recent years, there has been a growing understanding of the impact that taking part in the arts can have on health and wellbeing. By supplementing medicine and care, the arts can improve the health of people who experience mental or physical health problems.

Resources

Wall mural being painted

These pages are for those who are looking to develop arts in health activity. While the link between the arts and health and wellbeing goes back many years, the field of arts in health has developed considerably over the past thirty years with many organisations now established to support this work.  

National Alliance for Arts Health and Wellbeing

Arts for Health MMU

Since 2010, organisations from across the country have been working together to develop a new national voice for arts and health. Supported by Arts Council England, this work has involved the development of a Charter for arts health and wellbeing, which can be seen here 

Supported using public funding by the Arts Council England