Get creative with new Culture Health+ grants

15 January, 2015

To support and celebrate Hull’s status as 2017 City of Culture, City Health Care Partnership Foundation has launched a new programme of Culture Health+ grants. The grants are designed to give a kick start to cultural, arts based and creative activities that can also show a positive impact on the health of the local population.

The Culture Health+ programme is open to local voluntary and community organisations, charities and/or other not-for-profit organisations who can demonstrate their overall cultural aims and objectives and how they can contribute towards improvements in the health and wellbeing of local people.

Eligible projects should be based around cultural or artistic activities that will also deliver one or more of these following health benefits: promoting mental wellbeing, encouraging a healthier lifestyle, increasing exercise and promoting public health messages (such as stopping smoking or losing weight)

Projects should promote new ways of engaging communities in the arts. Examples of the type of project that may be supported include music and drama activities, cultural celebrations of diversity and creative and interactive arts based activities.

Funding of up to a maximum of £5,000 per project per year will be available, with a total grant pot of £20,000 available for each year in the run-up to 2017. There will be three annual rounds of awards made in total.

Deadlines for applications are 1st March 2015, 1st March 2016 and 1st  March 2017. For further information on eligibility and application forms visit www.chcpfoundation.org.uk.