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.
Speakers include:
- 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