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1. WELCOME TO THE 3RD MUSEUMS FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING CONFERENCE @museumwellbeing https://museumsandwellbeingalliance.wordpress.com/

2. THE ALLIANCES ARE MERGING! • National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing • National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk #CultureandHealth

3. 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. www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk #CultureandHealth

4. 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. 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. 64 Million Artists Age Friendly Museums Network Age of Creativity Art Fund Association of British Orchestras Breathe Arts Health Research British Association of Art Therapists British Association of Dramatherapists British Association for Music Therapy Creative Dementia Arts Network Culture 24 Group for Education in Museums GEM Happy Museum Historic England Lapidus Live Music Now Making Music Music in Hospitals & Care Museums and Participation Network National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance Nordoff Robbins Paintings in Hospitals People Dancing Royal Society for Public Health Special Interest Group for Arts, Health & Wellbeing Snape Maltings Social Prescribing Network Sporting Heritage Network The Reader The Whitworth and Manchester Museums Voluntary Arts Willis Newson Yorkshire Sculpture Park STRATEGIC ALLIANCE MEMBERS

8. >1000 references: (research articles; evaluation/project reports) from across the life course. • 10 recommendations http://www.artshealthandwellbeing.org.uk/appg-inquiry/