Arts and Health Information Greater Manchester GMAHN- Greater Manchester Arts and Health Network – www.wlct.org/gmahn Promoting arts & health best practice, building awareness of local and Greater Manchester programmes and initiating, supporting and sustaining GM arts & health work GMAHN Members ACE NW www.artscouncil.org.uk/regions North West AGMA www.agma.gov.uk AGMA Initiatives Ashton Wigan Leigh PCT www.alwpct.nhs.uk, email Cath.Foxon @alwpct.nhs.uk Bolton MBC www.bolton.gov.uk Arts Development (A-Z) Bury Metro www.bury.gov.uk Leisure/ Arts and Entertainment Greater Manchester PCT’s www.nwph.net/AGMPCTS email Will.Blandamer@alwpct.nhs.uk Manchester City Council www.manchester.gov.uk MMU Invest to Save www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/investtosave Oldham MBC www.oldham.gov.uk Arts and Events Rochdale Leisure Trust www.link4life.org Arts Development Salford MBC www.salford.gov.uk/museums.htm Stockport www.stockport.gov.uk Arts Development (A-Z) Tameside Arts www.tameside.gov.uk/events/team Trafford MBC www.trafford.gov.uk Arts and Culture(A-Z) Wigan Leisure Culture Trust www.wlct.org/arts
GM Organisations involved in Arts and Health Artsnet www.artsnetmanchester.co.uk -is for people employed in or interested in arts and culture to engage with the wider strategic issues which affect your work, play and quality of life in the City of Manchester. Asian Healthy Living Centre, Hyde For Tameside & Glossop area, 0161 368 3268 ARC www.artsforrecovery.com 0161 480 7731 An arts organisation working with adults recovering form mental ill health using a wide variety of creative mediums.
BlueSCI www.bluescii.org.uk 0161 912 4828 Offers creative and social opportunities for people with emotional or psychological distress in Trafford Connected www.connectedarts.co.uk/about.html 0161 627 8021 creative opportunities for and with people in Oldham recovering from mental health problems Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Wythenshawe Hospital – www.foundation.smtr.nhs.uk news- sound collectors project
GM Organisations involved in Arts and Health LIME www.limeart.org 0161 256 4389 An arts organisation with over 30 years experience delivering high quality arts projects within healthcare in hospital and community settings.
Manchester Metropolitan University- Arts for Health www.artsforhealth.org Rochdale Youth Service www.rochdale.gov.uk/community_and_living/youth_support 01706 924926 Delivering informal learning opportunities to young people Royal Northern College of Music www.rncm.ac.ukgraduates and alumni For music and health bulletin contact Holly Marland on 0161 907 5283 or email holly.marland@rncm.ac.uk START Salford www.startinsalford.co.uk 0161 351 6000 Providing arts training and opportunities for people of all ages experiencing mental ill health or social exclusion,
START Manchester www.startmc.org.uk 0161 257 0675 Part of Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust, helping people to improve, maintain and protect their mental wellbeing through involvement in art and horticulture
Music in Hospitals www.music-in-hospitals.org.uk 0161 209 9153
improve the quality of life of adults and children with all kinds of illness and disability through the joy and therapeutic benefits of live music.
Pool Arts www.victoriabaths.org.uk/pool_arts.htm 0161 224 2020 An organisation run by and for artists who have experienced mental or emotional distress St Luke’s Arts project /www.alltogether.info/home/stlukesartproject 0161 273 1492 A church and community based project which enables individuals with mental health needs to express themselves creatively in a safe, comfortable space.
North West Alder Hey Arts www.alderhey.com/RLCH/news.asp musicians in hospital article, contact Vicky Charnock Arts Coordinator, email vicky.charnock@rlc.nhs.uk
Preston Community Arts project www.prescap.co.uk – Working with vulnerable young people and health related social inclusion projects.
Blackpool City Council www.blackpool.gov.uk email artsdevelopement@blackpool.gov.uk Healthy Arts – Hope Street www.hopestreet.org/healthyarts/home.htm
Public Health NW www.northwest.nhs.uk /our_structure/publichealth/
Commonword www.commonword.org.uk Writing and Publishing organisation for the North West EUCLID http://health.culture.info/ Manchester based international web portal for cultural information Knowsley PCT www.knowsleyhealthpromotionnetwork.org.uk health promotion programmes, arts in health Liverpool Capital of Culture www.liverpool08.com/OurCommunities/Health/index.asp More Music in Morecambe www.mormusic.net North West Strategic Health Authoritywww.northwest.nhs.uk
Sefton Arts on perscription– www.creativealternatives.org.uk Arts on prescription service for stress, anxiety and depression in the Borough of Sefton Wear Purple www.wearpurple.co.uk gives people over the age of 55 the opportunity to work with professional artists to learn new skills and gain confidence in their creative abilities
UK CAHHM -Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine www.dur.ac.uk/cahhm Critical Connections www.criticalconnections.co.uk Health and arts development programme and website information for Yorkshire and Humber Walsall arts in health projects www.walsall.gov.uk/print/index/creative_development_arts_int o_health_themes.htm
Other useful websites Culture Observatory www.northwestcultureobservatory.co.uk Culture Northwest is a thinking, networking and advocacy organisation. We work strategically through collaboration to champion the role of culture across the region.
Health and Community Care Research Unit, University of Liverpool www.liv.ac.uk/haccru/ Social and Health Evaluation Unit (SHEU), University of Chester www.chester.ac.uk/health/sheu.html
Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/Arts/arts_and_communities/h ealth.htmA in H Networks
Institute for Health Research, University of Lancaster www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/ihr/ter
Public Health Observatory - www.nwph.net
Research Institute for Health and Social change, Manchester Metropolitan University www.rihsc.mmu.ac.uk/
A regional public health information and intelligence function supporting the work of public health professionals, local authorities and providers of healthcare and other services relevant to health of the North West population
Public Art website for the South West www.publicartonline.org.uk/practical/healthcare/arts_in_health care.html List of national organisations and general information about Arts in Healthcare across the UK Healthy Care programme www.ncb.org.uk/Page.asp?sve=783 Department of Education funded practical means of improving the health and well-being of looked after children and young people
Documents Strategies A prospectus for Arts and Health – joint publication D of H and ACE, 2007 The arts health and wellbeing – ACE national framework for art, health and wellbeing 2007 Both available as a free download from www.artcouncil.org.uk Report of the Review of the Arts and Health Working Group (2007) which was set up by Harry Cayton, the National Director for Patient and the Public, to support him in advising the Department of Health on its role in relation to arts and health. Published by the Department of Health. Available as a free download at www.dh.gov.uk/publications Dance and Health – the benefits for people of all ages www.artscouncil.org.uk/regions Produced in partnership with the Department of Health and the DCMS this folder outlines the health benefits of dance and provides examples of dance projects in a range of health settings. Our Health Our Care Our Say –www. dh.gov.uk selects policy and guidance section. A White paper which sets out a vision to provide people with good quality social care and NHS services in the communities where they live. (downloadable)
Choosing Health- Public Health White paper Available to download at www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications Publications/Evidence Arts in Health – a review of the medical literature ( 2006) Dr Rosalia Lelchuk Staricoff downloadable from www.artscouncil.org/ publications Ulrich & Zimring – the role of the physical environment in the hospital of the 21st Century – The Center for Health Design The Healing Environment – without and within” edited by Deborah Kirklin and Ruth Richardson, published by the Royal College of Physicians in 2003. ISBN 1 86016 191 X. Including a chapter by Michael Anderson of ARC “The Mind Arts Project in Stockport: community arts in action” HI~Arts has been working with the Health Promotion Department of the Highland NHS Trust to foster the role of the arts in both preventive and curative health and social care www.hi-arts.co.uk/arts_health.htm for articles and information
Articles Sidney De Haan reports on music and health – Canterbury Christchurch University www.canterbury.ac.uk/centres/sidney-de-haan-research/artshealth.asp The Potent Arts – www.nesta.org.uk/informing/articles/potent_art.aspx What role can the arts play in supporting mental health in individuals and communities," by NESTA Fellows Mike White and Mary Robson. 9 articles - from music in hospitals to community based arts in health - Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine, Durham University www.dur.ac.uk/cahhm/articles
Networks and Forums London Arts in Health forum – www.lahf.org.uk
Arts Projects list (see organisations list for contact details or GMAHN case studies) Case studies in red available at www.wlct/org.uk/gmahn/casestudies.htm Cancer Halton ‘Create’ www2.halton.gov.uk/content/socialcareandhealth/health/halton shealthylivingproject/?a=5441 Obesity ‘Energising the Arts’ Knowsley PCT/KMBC Arts Service project around healthy eating/obesity producing Tummy Train childrens game, Art of Healthy eating toolkit to run a healthy cookery club, 5 a day DVD for learning disabled adults, teen animated DVD about healthy lifestyle, Louise’s Dieting diary. ( see Knowsley PCT link) Alcohol Juice project with young people- Lime Mental Health Pathways Project– Lime ARC- Arts for recovery membership project involved in writing, designing, performing, mentoring.
Mental Health It’s a RAP reminiscence arts project, older people Stockport arts on Prescription Creative Space activity sheets (downloadable) Start Manchester Start Salford- a variety of arts activities Connected – Oldham, an umbrella name for a number of arts in health projects St Lukes art Project, community based arts activities Seed music studio, Allotment project, Bike project dance project art projects- BlueSCI The Nostalgia project- Artistic Moves Group, Stockport , part of Stockport Social Prescribing - Large scale ‘abstract’ canvasses have been produced representing momentous events, family histories, referencing pop culture or reinterpreting local heritage, supported by English Heritage Let’s Respect project and toolkit – information on depression, dementia and delirium for use in hospital wards images, small case studies in booklet form, guide books and bookmarks. www.olderpeoplesmentalhealth.csip.org.uk/letsrespect
Wellbeing Stockport arts and Health- social prescribing promoting mental wellbeing Tameside Older People Dance project- Freedom in Dance approach to gentle exercise Say Hello – Wigan LCT- reducing isolation through a writing project older people
Halton ‘Create’ www2.halton.gov.uk/content/socialcareandhealth/health/halton shealthylivingproject/?a=5441 Arts in healthcare environments Wigan LIFT- The HeArt-Lift project has focused primarily on enhancing the built environment of two LIFT facilities see ALW PCT contact
Stockport Street Dance- physical activity for young people aimed at creating a boys dance group
Cystic Fibrosis Ward Arts Project – Wythenshawe Hospital
Wear purple- arts, textiles, dance, poetry etc for older people
Music in Hospitals
Men’s Health and Men at Work project– Knowsley PCT
Alder Hey Hospital Arts
Oral Health ‘The truth of the Tooth’ creative delivery of oral health messages in schools, St Helens and Knowsley Oral Health Team – contact Annette Mercer 0151 489 1754
LIME - A variety of projects in hospital settings
Sexual health/teenage pregnancy Rochdale Youth Service- Teenage Pregnancy Strategy and drama and dance projects exploring aspects of sexual health Respiratory Conditions Bronchial Boogie – Asthma education, breathing exercises and wind instrumental tuition for children www.oldham.gov.uk/community/music-service/ms-specialprojects.htm
Stockport Arts & Health • Commissioned five artists to work with children and parents to make artworks for SureStart. • Textile hangings by children of Cale Green School at Heathfield House Mental Health Resource Centre • Various artworks developed through collaborative approach, Tree House Children’s Centre, Stepping Hill Hospital Mosaic in Reception by Baker Street Children’s Home Heaton Norris Health Centre