UK Timeline 2013

The National Positive Ageing Strategy

The National Positive Ageing Strategy is a commitment in the Programme for Government, outlining Ireland’s vision for ageing and older people. ’ Cultural and social participation is a key policy area addressed under one of its four goals.

OECD Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being

With this online book, OECD has produced Guidelines which provide advice on the collection and use of measures of subjective well being. These Guidelines have been produced as part of the OECD Better Life Initiative, a pioneering project launched in 2011, with the objective to measure society’s progress across ele...

Arts, health and wellbeing beyond the Millennium: How far have we come and where do we want to go?

This report gives an overview of the arts and health field, with particular reference to the UK and New Zealand. It provides a review of the evidence for the benefits of the arts to health, as well as the policy context of commissioning arts and health initiatives.

Investing in Arts on Prescription: an economic perspective

A small feasibility study aimed to identify not only budgeted resources allocated to an Arts on Prescription programme, but also to highlight some of the added value that the project generated through in-kind contributions to programme implementation. This was important in order to identify the true economic cost of...

After You are Two: Exemplary Practice in Participatory Arts with Older People

Based on visits to a wide range of projects funded by the Baring Foundation, Arts Adviser Kate Organ has sought to distil what is important in working with older people and the significance it has for an artist’s own practice.

Reawakening the Mind

Evaluation of Arts 4 Dementia’s London Arts Challenge in 2012: Arts interventions
to re-energise and inspire people in the early stages of dementia and their carers.

Healthy Attendance? The Impact of Cultural Engagement and Sports Participation on Health and Satisfaction with Life in Scotland

Data from the Scottish Household Survey 2011 has been used to statistically explore the relationship between taking part in cultural and sporting activities, attending cultural places and key quality of life measures in Scotland. This report from the Scottish Government Social Research presents the findings of the a...

Dance for Lifelong Wellbeing: Project report 2013

The project provided opportunities for older adults, who would not normally get an opportunity to dance, to participate in tailored classes.

An integral element of the project was the provision of training and mentoring for the six teachers who volunteered hours of their time to lead the specialist classes.

Being in tune: Seeking ways of addressing isolation and dislocation through engaging in the arts. A provocation paper

Paper to demonstrate how participating in the arts can help to transform the quality of people’s lives.

Kids Company: A diagnosis of the organisation and its interventions

A review of available evidence on the impact of Kids Company on its clients and an investigation of the internal structure of the organisation and its interventions.

Milton Keynes arts for health: Arts on prescription. An evaluation

This report describes a service evaluation of the first year of an arts on prescription project delivered in Milton Keynes between July 2011 and August 2012 for participants with mild to moderate mental health needs.

Arts on prescription 2010-2012: Research report

Evaluation of an Arts on Prescription 12-week visual arts programme for adults experiencing mild-moderate anxiety or depression.

Creative Progression: Reflections on quality in participatory arts

This paper reflects on the meaning and assessment of quality in participatory arts.

Late flowering: Art and wellbeing in old age

Considered thoughts on recent changes in the provision for older people across the UK.

Arts, health and wellbeing: Personal reflections and political perspectives

Transcript of address to Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference Bristol, June 2013.

Arts, Health and Wellbeing: resilient people and communities

Transcript of presentation by Professor John Wyn Owen at The Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference in Bristol 2013.

Art Lift, Gloucestershire (project extension). Evaluation report

Final report of a primary care based art intervention where health professionals referred NHS patients for a 10 week art programme, usually delivered in a primary care setting.

Is music the best medicine? Using prescribed music to enhance quality of life for people with dementia and their carer

Unfolding arts in health: Belfast Trust arts in health strategy 2013-2015

A strategy document for promoting better health and wellbeing through access to the arts, for all who come into contact with Belfast Trust.

What do we know about the role of arts in the delivery of social care? A briefing paper

An evidence review and activity mapping study to inform future thinking around the role of arts in the delivery of adult social care and in particular the implications for workforce development.

 

Art for Art’s Sake? The Impact of Arts Education

Arts education is often said to be a means of developing critical and creative thinking. This OECD report examines the state of empirical knowledge about the impact of arts education on these kinds of outcomes.

Art Works: Using the arts to promote emotional health and wellbeing in schools

This report shares the learning from a creative project in four Nottinghamshire schools which used collaboration with artists to improve the emotional health of the whole school community.

From dependence to independence: emerging lessons from the Rotherham Social Prescribing Pilot

This is the first report from the independent evaluation of the innovative Rotherham Social Prescribing Pilot being undertaken by the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) at Sheffield Hallam University.

A Literature-Based Intervention for Older People Living with Dementia

This report addresses the impact and effect that a specific literature-based intervention called “Get Into Reading”, designed and practised by The Reader Organisation, might have on the health and wellbeing of people living with dementia.

Out & About: Promoting Wellbeing for Older People

Out & About sits within the Bromley by Bow Centre’s Adult Health and Wellbeing Programme. It supports older people, aged 60 years and above, to engage with their local community through a range of health, social and creative activities.

The aim of this evaluation was to assess the extent to which the Ou...

PoLLeN People, Life, Landscape and Nature: An Evaluation 2012-2013

PoLLeN is a social and therapeutic horticulture project for adults with direct experience of mental distress.

This evaluation builds upon the earlier PoLLeN evaluation [Clift and Bungay (2012)] and aims to assess the extent to which the PoLLeN project at the Bromley by Bow Centre during 2012-2013 is achieving...

PoLLeN People, Life, Landscape and Nature: An Evaluation

Between 2011 and 2012, the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health led an evaluation on the PoLLeN project, a social and therapeutic horticulture project for adults with direct experience of mental distress.

A mixed methods research approach was employed to collect data via WEMWBS, written feedback...

More Than Medicine: New Services for People Powered Health

More than Medicine: new services for People Powered Health is one in a series of learning products which explain why People Powered Health works, what it looks like and the key features needed to replicate success elsewhere. It draws on the experience of six teams who took part in People Powered Health, which was le...

Great Art and Culture for Everyone: 10-Year Strategic Framework 2010-2020. Second edition: Revised 2013

Great Art and Culture for Everyone sets out a 10-year vision for the Arts Council, with five ambitious goals at its heart. Originally published in 2010, this 2013 update reflects the Arts Council’s newly expanded remit for museums and libraries.

Arts & Health Inspire, Engage, Involve: Dudley Annual Report, the Director of Public Health 2013

This 2013 annual report from the Director of the Office of Public Health in Dudley reflects on the elements of the Dudley model of “inspire, engage, involve” which has taken an arts-based approach to health improvement over the last decade. Dudley’s arts and health interventions and their impact contribute to ...

Rebalancing our Cultural Capital: A contribution to the debate on national policy for the arts and culture in England

This report contributes to the debate on public policy for the arts. Its focus is on England and public funding. Setting out the scale of London’s dominance in national cultural life, the report makes recommendations to address the distribution of resources for creative production to rebalance cultural capital bet...

Towards Plan A: A new political economy for arts and culture

“Towards Plan A: a new political economy for arts and culture?”, aimed at developing and articulating a new case for investment in the arts and culture, is a new partnership between the Arts Council and the RSA. It was announced in 2013 at Peter Bazalgette’s inaugural lecture as the newly-appointed Chair of th...

Evaluation of ‘imove’, Yorkshire & Humber’s Legacy Trust UK Regional programme for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Imove was Yorkshire & Humberside’s Legacy Trust UK programme for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Formally launched to the public in 2010, imove’s programme included performing and visual arts, creative movement, sport and outdoor activity.

Using a mixed methodology, this report evaluates...

Re-imagining futures: Exploring arts interventions and the process of desistance

This research explores how arts interventions contribute towards enabling offenders to form positive identities, build new narratives and build positive relationships with peers, staff and family.

The research team investigated five arts projects in four criminal justice settings, including practising visual ...

Right here: A voice and choice for young people’s mental health. Case studies of innovative approaches to improving young people’s mental health and wellbeing

Right Here aims to develop effective new approaches to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of young people in the UK aged 16 to 25. This report presents four case studies from across the Right Here initiative, each of which include learning points and areas for future research.

Right Here is a £6 mill...

Transforming futures: Cultural Participation for Children and Young People Experiencing Poverty

This report provides an overview of a research seminar which took place in October 2013 at the National Museum of Wales. 34 participants from a wide range of professional backgrounds across the UK attended this seminar to explore the theme of cultural participation for children and young people experiencing poverty....

Museums and Happiness: The value of participating in museums and the arts

This paper looks at the relationships between museums, the arts and wellbeing using data from the Taking Part survey. It looks at the impacts of the arts on people’s subjective wellbeing and health and attach values to these impacts. This is the Wellbeing Valuation approach, which has been recently developed a...

Men’s sheds and other gendered interventions for older men: Improving health and wellbeing. A systematic review and scoping of the evidence base. Report for the Liverpool-Lancaster Collaborative (LiLaC) and Age UK.

A systematic review was undertaken, to examine the effects of Men’s Sheds and other gendered interventions on older men’s physical and mental health and social wellbeing.

The aims of this study were to summarise evidence for the effectiveness of Men’s Sheds and other gendered social activity interventio...

Inclusion Through Art: An organisational guideline to using the participatory arts with young refugees and asylum seekers

This document provides practical guidelines for organisations that seek to improve their engagement with young refugees and asylum seekers through developing participatory arts and media projects.

UCL Museum Wellbeing Measures Toolkit

The UCL Museum Wellbeing Measures Toolkit is a set of scales of measurement used to assess levels of wellbeing arising from participation in museum and gallery activities that has been trialled across the UK. The Toolkit has been designed to help people involved in running in-house or outreach museum projects, to ev...

Make my day: the impact of Creative Caring in older people’s care homes

An SROI evaluation of Creative Carers – a training programme that instils a broad approach to creativity in older people’s care homes.