Arts & Culture can have a profound impact on our health and wellbeing, with the pandemic throwing into sharp relief how much we rely on creative expression and connection in order to feel good. The Arts & Culture Finance team explored how different organisations are working with the health sector and different types of beneficiaries, the opportunities they’ve embraced and the challenges they have had to overcome from a business and investment perspective.

They were joined by Victoria Hume, Director of the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance and Thomas Hardy, Learning & Participation Director at Saffron Hall who has been leading on Together in Sound – a music therapy project for people living with dementia.

Topics covered included:

• The different routes in to working with the health sector
• How to measure impact with care for the participants
• The policy landscape
• How social investment can play a role in supporting creative social enterprises