1. Starting from Scratch: Piloting wellbeing activities
Rosie Barker, Community Engagement Officer
Birmingham Museums Trust

2. What does wellbeing mean to you?
Health, happiness, access, empathy, physical, social, individual, connectedness...
Think about what you do that improves your own wellbeing?

3. How do you decide what to do?
Two pronged approach. 1 - what are your local needs?
Joint Strategic Needs Assessments
Health and Wellbeing Boards
National health trends and profiles
Local authority demographics
Dementia Strategies
Google is your friend!

4. How do you decide what to do?
Two pronged approach. 2 – what have you got?
Map your assets:
Resources
Programming
Indoor and outdoor spaces
Collections
Equipment
Staff skills

5. Get the right partners on board
Partners will help provide participants
Partner organisations offer health/wellbeing support
Use the available evidence
Speak their language…

6. Five Ways to Wellbeing
Developed from evidence-based research and used nationally
Helps us talk the same language as health providers, charities etc.

8. Map your own wellbeing activities and your current provision onto the Five Ways to Wellbeing What you already do can be repackaged and targeted at different audiences to support their wellbeing

9. Do it, and learn from it
What do you want people to get out of the activity?
What do participants (carers, key workers…) want to get out of the activity?
Did they get what they want/need – and why?
What can you change to make it work better?

10. Creative Carers Carers Mental health Anxiety / depression 87% negative
91% affected
Carers

11. Gaffer’s Garden

12. Year 2 and beyond Building on what’s worked – and what hasn’t
Zen Garden
Young Carers
Refugee wellbeing
Care Home livestreams

13. You are based in a Victorian museum with an accessible classroom and a small outdoor space. Based on the existing provision we’ve mapped, develop a pilot that will impact on one of Public Health England’s ‘Ten facts that sum up our nation’s health 2017’.
Think about:
Who you’ll partner with
What you’ll do
Will there be tea and cake (trick question!)

14. I am less anxious and talk more now here and at home.
Final words…
This was fantastic as there aren’t many places we can go as a family where we don’t get stressed.
It is somewhere special where I feel like I’m being cared for.
The cake was lovely!
To acknowledge that unpaid carers are doing work that is valued and to organise a time for our recreation is a wonderful statement of recognition.
I am less anxious and talk more now here and at home.
When you get a dementia diagnosis, the health service would do well to direct families to the Dementia Café experience.
It’s like pebbles in a pool - ripples benefit me and then benefit others I care for

15. Rosie Barker, Community Engagement Officer
Birmingham Museums Trust