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Winner

Hidden is an immersive podcast, workshop and live theatrical show that harnesses participatory arts approaches to innovate in patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE), and bring about positive change in health and social care.

Hidden is co-produced with people with different lived experience, predominantly in Tameside, and with researchers from several UK universities. 

 

 

An excellent submission with a very strong focus on community that embraced the challenge of innovation during difficult times. The delivery team have ongoing academic partnerships that support insightful and different types of evaluation, and this allows for a questioning approach and organisational learning. 

RSPH Health and Wellbeing Awards Assessor

 

Finalist

Converge is a partnership between York St John University and the NHS Trust. For 14 years Converge has offered arts courses, based on campus, to local people who experience mental ill health, to aid recovery and promote social mobility. University students and staff are involved in the delivery and support of courses.

an exciting programme from a university that sees the fundamental value of education as a transformative tool for improving mental health and wellbeing.  It is being led by a group of artists, academics and service users who have experienced mental health illness themselves and so have built content and designed outcomes and evaluation criteria that are SMART and have impact. 

RSPH Health & Wellbeing Awards Assessor

 

 Finalist

Creative Alternatives is an arts-on-prescription programme to offer a non-medical intervention for St Helens Borough adult residents experiencing anxiety, stress and/or depression. 


St Helens Borough Council undertook an open tender process to commission an organisation to deliver this programme, resulting in Alef Trust delivering Creative Alternatives in St Helens since 2015.

A great example of a social prescribing service within a library setting. There is a very well-defined referral process in place and excellent partnership collaborations. There is a real sense of understanding and reflecting the needs and interests of the local community as well as a deep understanding of why referrals take place from the outset.

RSPH Health and Wellbeing Awards Assessor