Our Beginning

The Network was created in response to the Creative Health report published in 2017 by an all parliamentary group.

Our Vision

Arts and creativity support Leeds to be a healthy city, where people who are the poorest improve their health the fastest.

Our Mission

Our mission is to drive collaboration between creative arts, culture, academia, health and care by connecting, championing and supporting agencies and individuals to work better together. Through collaboration, we will transform communities and improve the health and wellbeing of people who live, work and study in Leeds.

Our Principles

Three principles underpin and guide LAWHN’s work:

·     Inclusive – supporting co-production and collaboration, promoting equity and challenging inequality.

·     Sustainable – promoting environmental sustainability and supporting the sustainability of the creative sector.

·     Impactful – working together to make a difference to our communities.

Our Themes and Objectives

Themes

We connect through partnerships across culture, health, social care, local government and academia.

We champion through supporting cross sector learning, highlighting best practice and advocating for arts and health.

We support through providing information, nurturing collaboration and co-production.

Objectives

Explore the potential of our health and wellbeing services to make more use of the arts to deliver outcomes and work with existing Leeds arts agencies to have a greater focus on health and wellbeing.

Raise awareness of how Leeds (and beyond) deliver health and wellbeing activity through the arts.

Support efforts to deliver art to improve the health and wellbeing of staff across our partners.

Since 2019 we have had over 700 members join, over 20 organisations support our governing board and over 3500 people follow our network online Meet our team →

Get Involved

We welcome anyone interested in Arts and Health in Leeds to join our network.

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