Celebrating Creativity and Wellbeing Week

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It’s Creative Health and Wellbeing Week! Running from 18 to 24 May 2026, communities across the country are coming together to engage in creative activities, and celebrate their impact on health and wellbeing.

The benefits of creative health are numerous, from helping to manage long term health conditions to promoting better mental and physical health through:

  • Connection with others
  • The opportunity to learn and develop new skills
  • Moving your body
  • Expressing yourself artistically

Creative health can also play a role in strengthening community and creating healthier neighbourhoods. In October 2025, Lambeth Council’s Culture and Public Health teams collaborated with South East London Integrated Care System’s Creative Health leads to co-host the first Creative Health in Lambeth Neighbourhoods event.

The event provided a space for discussion and connection between partners working across creative health in Lambeth, including the Garden Museum, Raw Material, Singing Mamas, Badge Cafe and more. Watch below to see the highlights.

Join the next event

The team are coming together for their second event on Tuesday 2 June 2026, 11am to 1pm at Studio Voltaire in Clapham.

This will build on the work begun at the first event, but newcomers are welcome. It is open to anyone in Lambeth who works or is interested in creative health. This includes freelance creatives, NHS and local authority staff, people working in the voluntary or community sector, and arts sector colleagues. If you have an idea or a question about creative health in Lambeth, don’t miss this opportunity to share your thoughts.

Admission is free. Sign up to attend

Flora Faith-Kelly, Creative Health Programme Manager, South East London Integrated Care System, said:

“It’s wonderful to be able to co-convene the Creative Health in Lambeth Neighbourhoods Network with brilliant partners such as Lambeth Council, Studio Voltaire and Southbank Centre for a second time so soon after the national Creativity & Wellbeing Week. It’s a timely opportunity to bring together culture, VCS and health colleagues to consider once more how creativity plays a role in supporting local neighbourhood health priorities and how access to creativity & culture is a core pillar of good health.” 

A group of people stand together in an arched brick room, some talking and some singing. One person in the centre raises an arm as others face different directions, creating a lively atmosphere.

Why is this important to Lambeth Together?

Lambeth Together is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of adults by working together with local people in neighbourhoods. Creative health is one of many ways people living with long term health conditions can find support. Learn more about the Neighbourhood and Wellbeing Delivery Alliance.

We’re working in partnership to help more people to maintain positive behaviours that support their wellbeing and keep them healthy. Find out more about our Staying Healthy Programme.

 

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