Creative Health GM - A Place Partnership

NHS Greater Manchester and Greater Manchester Combined Authority are leading a partnership with public services, health and social care providers, cultural and voluntary organisations, universities and residents to create lasting ways for creativity and culture to be at the heart of communities’ health and wellbeing.

The Creative Health GM Place Partnership is part of Live Well: Greater Manchester’s shared commitment to everyday support in every neighbourhood, changing how we work with communities and in public services to grow opportunities for everyone to Live Well.

Over the next three years, the Creative Health GM Place Partnership will be part of GM's radical shift in how public services work with communities, to prioritise prevention, economic inclusion, and social connection as the foundations of a healthier and stronger society. The work has been made possible following a successful bid to Arts Council England for a grant of £800,000 through its National Lottery funded Place Partnership Fund.

Creative Health GM - A Place Partnership will explore how GM is embedding Creative Health throughout the lifecourse with a focus on:

- Dancing and moving for the development of gross motor skills in early years settings

- Storytelling to support pre-school children with speech and language needs across GM libraries

- Co-designing creative mental health and wellbeing support with neurodivergent young people and creative practitioners

- Extending ENO’s Breathe programme to support people living with respiratory disease

- Creating a more culturally competent mental health and wellbeing support offer with and for global majority communities

- Supporting the brain health of unpaid carers with the GM Ageing in Place Partnership.

Threaded through our look at the lifecourse, there will be time to think about:

- The role of data and intelligence and what we really need to measure

- The importance of partnerships - so we really can do things differently

- How we can best support our health, care and creative workforce.

This event is generously hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University.

Kate Green

Deputy Mayor for Safer and Stronger Communities, Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Professor Sandeep Ranote FRCPsych

Clinical Director Mental Health - NHS GM Integrated Care

Dr Luke Munford

Health Economist, University of Manchester

Magdalene Bartlett

CEO of Afrocats

Notes:

The Creative Health GM Place Partnership has been made possible following a successful bid to Arts Council England for a grant of £800,000 through its National Lottery funded Place Partnership Fund. With additional funding from Baring Foundation.

The partnership includes GM based arts organisations with a long history of creative health work, including Venture Arts, Start Salford, Cartwheel Arts and Arc. Other partners include GM Libraries, Rambert, English National Opera and Z Arts.

All five higher education institutions in GM have joined the partnership and are providing research and learning support under the banner of the Mayor’s Civic University Agreement.

Through Live Well, Greater Manchester will create a radical shift in how public services work with communities, prioritising prevention, economic inclusion, and social connection to ensure:

· People are connected to a wide variety of activities, support and information

· People are heard and enabled to contribute to make their communities healthier and happier

· People and communities have the resources to make change happen.

Host or Publisher Greater Manchester Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership