1. WELCOME TO THE 3RD MUSEUMS FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING CONFERENCE
@museumwellbeing

2. THE ALLIANCES ARE MERGING!
National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing
National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing  
#CultureandHealth

3. www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk #CultureandHealth Objectives:
Developing a strong alliance of partners
Developing national and international opportunities for networking, conversation and debate and showcasing excellent practice.
Delivering regional events, training, activity and networks
Advocating for the work at a national level and supporting advocacy at a regional and local level
Developing online resources to support the drive for excellence in the field and for knowledge exchange.  
#CultureandHealth

4. • Achieving excellent creative and cultural outcomes;
The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance will support artists, arts organisations, galleries, museums, other cultural institutions and those engaged in delivering the arts for health and wellbeing to learn from each other and raise awareness of good practice in:
• Achieving excellent creative and cultural outcomes;
• The range, innovation and quality of artistic and cultural work that is being done in this field, including the latest developments with digital work;
• Opportunities for creative and cultural practitioners to develop their professional skills and artistic practice;
• Realising the full benefits of the arts and culture for individual and community health and wellbeing;
• Extending the reach of cultural engagement to those who are vulnerable and excluded due to ill-health or the wider social determinants;
• Using the evidence base and how to evaluate the work;
• Partnership working and collaboration with the health and social care sector;
• Engaging with public sector commissioning and how to leverage new income sources through articulating health and wellbeing benefits

6. STEERING GROUP East Arts & Minds University of Cambridge Museums
East Midlands
Arts Derbyshire
Mansfield Museum
London
British Museum
London Arts in Health Forum
North East
Equal Arts
Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums
North West
Manchester Metropolitan University
National Museums Liverpool
South East
Beaney House of Art and Knowledge
South West
Arts & Health South West
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
West Midlands
Birmingham Museums Trust
Creative Health CIC
Yorkshire and Humber
Thackray Medical Museum
Ministry of Others
STEERING GROUP

7. STRATEGIC ALLIANCE MEMBERS
64 Million Artists
Making Music
Age Friendly Museums Network
Music in Hospitals & Care
Museums and Participation Network
Age of Creativity
Art Fund
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance
Association of British Orchestras
Nordoff Robbins
Breathe Arts Health Research
Paintings in Hospitals
British Association of Art Therapists
People Dancing
Royal Society for Public Health Special Interest Group for Arts, Health & Wellbeing
British Association of Dramatherapists
British Association for Music Therapy
Snape Maltings
Social Prescribing Network
Creative Dementia Arts Network
Sporting Heritage Network
The Reader
Culture 24
The Whitworth and Manchester Museums
Group for Education in Museums GEM
Voluntary Arts
Happy Museum
Willis Newson
Historic England
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Lapidus
Live Music Now
STRATEGIC ALLIANCE MEMBERS

8. >1000 references: (research articles; evaluation/project reports) from across the life course.
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