Have your say on Creative Health in Lambeth Neighbourhoods

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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 neighbourhood work, as demonstrated by a collaboration between the SEL ICS Creative Health leads, and Lambeth Council Culture and Public health teams, who came together to co-host the first Creative Health in Lambeth Neighbourhoods event in October 2025.

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.

‘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 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.’ – Flora Faith-Kelly, Creative Health Programme Manager, SEL ICS

Join the next event

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

This event will allow the team to follow up and build on the work of the previous event. It is open to anyone in Lambeth either working or interested in creative health, including freelance creatives, NHS, Local Authority, VCSE 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 here.

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 improve the health and wellbeing of adults by working together in local neighbourhoods. Creative health is one of many ways people living with locally 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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