At Sussex Recovery College, arts-based courses are boosting students’ creativity and self-esteem. Kate Davey reports on this…

A cross-party group is gathering evidence of the arts improving people’s health and wellbeing for a new study.

From arts on prescription to recovery colleges, there are a range of ways for arts organisations to engage with public service com…

Arts projects and performances are hugely popular among prisoners, staff and governors, and should be used to motivate wider learn…

Two years after hosting its first dementia friendly performance, West Yorkshire Playhouse has released a best-practice guide to pu…

Spend some time chilling out in a supermarket car park, arts and health project manager Katherine Brown tells herself at 22.

The benefits of commissioners working with the arts sector have been highlighted by pilot schemes in Kent and Gloucestershire. Jes…

Pilot projects in Kent and Gloucestershire have revealed procurement approaches are leaving arts and cultural organisations at a d…

How can you attend a festival if you can’t leave your house? Michael Eades describes a project bringing the festival experie…

Addiction isn’t easy to treat, but could a whole person approach that uses the arts help? Emma Drew makes the case. 

Dance offers older people many physical and social benefits, but performing to an audience makes the greatest impact on wellbeing,…

Jane Rich reveals how Cambridge Community Arts creates unexpected joy through its creative courses that leave mental health at the…

Struck down with depression, international singer and songwriter Rhoda Dakar reveals how volunteering on a music project helped he…

In Birmingham, craft projects are not only helping young people learn new skills but giving their self-confidence and resilience a…

The arts and health may have been officially coupled with the launch of a new evaluation framework, but will they ever be comforta…

How can arts organisations present their offer more effectively to public service commissioners? Five pilot consortia have been wo…

A framework giving guidance on how to assess arts projects and programmes aimed at boosting health and wellbeing has been publishe…

Spending time in the great outdoors is proven to boost wellbeing, but how can the arts encourage people to do it? Nicky Goulder de…

A two-year inquiry will result in the publication of policy proposals, with the hope of seeing the arts become more valued as cont…

Could paintbrushes, violins and even magic wands soon be crucial tools for medical professionals? Yvonne Farquharson hopes so.

Advice and resources to help arts and health professionals conduct more robust and credible evaluations of their work are being ma…

Arts for Health Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly is to close after 14 years of operation following an assessment by its trustees t…

Those who attend the arts report significantly higher levels of happiness than those who don’t, but the opposite is true for…

What are the opportunities for arts organisations interested in delivering ‘on prescription’ schemes? And do they outw…