The coronavirus pandemic and resulting restrictions have had an impact on everyone’s wellbeing, including those working in museums and heritage organisations. This webinar, in partnership…
Resource Category: well-being
Sensing Culture
Sensing Culture was a three-year multi-partner project with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) as the lead partner, and funded by £438,900 from…
Advice on Reopening Museums – Reopening Museums Toolkit
Updated 15/01/21 Museums play a critical role in society by contributing to dialogue and understanding between peoples and cultures, facilitating cohesion in communities. To ensure…
Disability Access Information Online: Checklist for museums, galleries and heritage sites
The survey undertaken as part of State of Museum Access 2018 found that around one in five (19%) of accredited museums did not provide any…
Guide on non-user consultation in museums
Non-user consultation is a requirement for every Accredited Museum. If you would like to improve how you consult with new communities, here is some help.…
Working with Public Service Commissioners
This quick guide for the arts and cultural sector documents learning from the Cultural Commissioning Programme’s work with five locality projects, based in Birmingham, Derby,…
Making Sense of Social Prescribing
‘Social Prescribing’ is a mechanism for linking patients with non-medical sources of support within the community, including cultural provision. Find out more about how it…
Art Therapy in Museums and Galleries
This is the website for the British Association of Art Therapists‘ Museums And Galleries Specialist Interest Group. We aim to be a positive and inclusive…
Heritage Counts 2017: Heritage and Society
Looking for evidence to support advocacy or funding applications? The report Heritage and Society 2017 is produced each year by Historic England on behalf of…
Getting Started with Commissioning: a toolkit for arts and culture organisations in the South East
Creative Future shares advice for adapting to the shift from traditional grants to tendering and commissioning. Download CF_Commissioning_Pack_ONLINE.pdf...
Age UK’s Wellbeing Index Summary
Looking for evidence to support advocacy or funding applications? The Wellbeing in Later Life Index, developed by Age UK and the University of Southampton, analysed…
Five Ways to Wellbeing
Foresight’s ‘Mental capital and wellbeing’ project considered how to improve everyone’s mental capital and mental wellbeing through life. Evidence suggests that a small improvement in…
Inspiring Impact
Inspiring Impact is a programme that aims to change the way the UK voluntary sector thinks about impact. Inspiring Impact aims to make high quality impact…
Mind, body, spirit: How Museums Impact Health and Wellbeing
This publication reports the findings from a year-long action research project funded by Arts Council England and initiated by the Research Centre for Museums and…
Museums for Health and Wellbeing: A Preliminary Report from the National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing
Museums for Health and Wellbeing: A Preliminary Report from the National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing. This report describes the wealth of activity around…
Creative & Credible: How to evaluate arts and health projects
Creative & Credible supports arts and health organisations and practitioners to: – engage with evaluation creatively – improve your practice – make well-informed spending decisions – strengthen…
‘The Art of Commissioning’ Cultural Commissioning Report
The Art of Commissioning: Report published by the Cultural Commissioning Programme in April 2016 to influence commissioners to improve their commissioning and procurement approaches to enable…
Arts Commissioning Toolkit
This toolkit will help you understand and engage with commissioning. Being commissioned provides an opportunity for the arts and cultural sector to deliver contracts for…
Cultural Commissioning Resources from Know How Non Profit
The Cultural Commissioning Programme has collated a range of resources for those wanting to engage in public service commissioning and for commissioners such as local…
What Works Centre for Wellbeing
Together with the Economic and Social Research Council and Public Health England, the government is funding a What Works centre dedicated to understanding what national…
Age of Creativity
Age of Creativity is a national platform for everyone who believes that creativity can support older people to enjoy better health, wellbeing, and quality of…
Arts for health and wellbeing: an evaluation framework
This document from Public Health England provides effective ways to document and evaluate arts projects and programmes that seek to improve health and wellbeing. Arts…
National Alliance for Museums Health and Wellbeing
The National Alliance for Museums, Health & Wellbeing is a place where information about museums and health can be shared; to improve existing practice, help…
Cultural Commissioning Resources from NCVO
The Cultural Commissioning Programme has collated a range of resources for those wanting to engage in public service commissioning and for commissioners such as local…
Symposium: Children and World War 1 – programme
Children and World War One - programme for the day This symposium will take place at the University of Worcester on Thursday 23 October from 2.00…
Materials from Museum2Museum: ‘New Visions for Museums & Public Health’
Programme of the Day Download M2M_New_Visions_30_09_2014_Programme.pdf... Paul Camic - Introduction Professor of Psychology & Public Health Download Paul_Camic___Introduction___30_09_2014.pdf... Ivan Rudd Public Health Specialist, Kent County…