APPLICATIONS OPEN UNTIL 7th MARCH 2025
If you work in a primary school or creative arts organisation that is delivering creative activities to improve pupil wellbeing, don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2024/25 Chris Drinkwater Creative Health in Primary Schools Awards, in partnership with North East Museums (formerly Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums). The Awards recognise collaboration between education & the arts for children’s wellbeing in primary schools across the North East and North Cumbria.
Creative health approaches address health and wellbeing through engagement in creative activities such as dance, drama, visual art, film making, music, heritage, etc.
To find out more about the Award, including examples of past winners and other creative health projects, please visit the Healthier Together website.
Professor Chris Drinkwater CBE was an inner-city GP in Newcastle for 23 years. Chris was also our previous Arts and Creativity Lead for the Child Health and Wellbeing Network, and when he stood down from the role the Network established the Chris Drinkwater Awards to acknowledge his generous contribution to the Network and his passion for Creative Health, especially with primary school-aged children.
Who can apply?
- We are targeting this opportunity into settings in more deprived communities and where socioeconomic and health inequalities are most prevalent.
- Schools that have been running a creative health project in collaboration with an artist or arts organisation.
- Creative organisations already working within schools.
- We are particularly interested in learning about the outcomes you have achieved, with emphasis on the evidence you have in regard to improving the wellbeing of young people. This means that we want to know about projects that are completed, or have been running for long enough for evidence of impact to have been gathered.
Creative Health Lunch & Learn webinar
Wednesday 29th January 12pm-1pm
- Want to explore the importance of impact evidence to support your creative health innovations?
- Need guidance on preparing your Creative Health in Primary Schools Award application?
Join our Lunch & Learn webinar to hear from previous Award entrants on how to make your initiative stand out! If you are unable to join live, a recording will be shared if you register via the link.
Applications are open until Friday 7th March 2025. For more information about how to apply, please visit the North East Museums website.
Published: December 11