Download Creative Health Exchange resources
On 11 and 12 February 2026, hundreds of you joined us at Bradford Arts Centre to explore how creativity can transform health, care and community wellbeing.
On this page you’ll find useful resources from the day, including presentations and videos.
Thank you for joining us at The Creative Health Exchange: Creative Health for the Future – Starting Now.
Over 150 people joined us across the two days, bringing together artists, cultural organisations, local authorities, health partners, researchers, educators and people with lived experience to explore how Creative Health is being delivered in practice and how we can work together to build stronger systems for the future.
Across keynotes, panels, workshops and creative contributions, the event focused on practice over theory — sharing live projects, honest reflections and collaborative learning from Bradford and beyond. It was inspiring to see so many connections forming across sectors, places and disciplines.
Download resources
We are pleased to share these resources from the day, which include:
- Prof Daisy Fancourt’s keynote presentation
- Slides and materials from workshop facilitators who kindly agreed to share their work
- Feedback and reflections gathered from delegates
Resources from Day 1
Bradford Museums and Galleries x Bradford Care Association Making Museums Meaningful: Voices, Memories and Wellbeing in Bradford (Download slides)
Sara Robinson & Ian Lamb Making Arts & Culture Accessible: Learning from Work with Serious Mental Illness (Find out more)
Virpi Kettu Animation Workshop for Creative Health (Watch video part 1, part 2 and part 3)
Ruth Agbolade How to design and deliver meaningful community engagement sessions and sharing work-practice notes from Bradford 2025 projects (Download slides)
People’s Care Movement Work and Care – Break the Game (Download slides)
Fran Coard, LAHWN & Collette Brauns, BDCHCP Towards a West Yorkshire Creative Health System – a consortium approach (Download slides)
Danielle Daglan & Leon Fijalkowski How One Council-Led Partnership Got Started: Field Notes from North Yorkshire (Download slides)
Chandni Soren: UnLoad (Watch the video) Please note: the artist is happy to share this film with Creative Health Exchange attendees but has asked that it isn’t shared or screened anywhere else without their permission.
Resources from Day 2
Daisy Fancourt – pre-recorded keynote presentation (Watch the presentation)
Project CREATE Inside the Living Lab: Creative Collaborative Approaches to Youth Mental Health Research (Download slides)
Diane Saxon, Maternal Journal Creative Health Activities to Support Pregnant & new Mums (Download slides)
Ameerah Turner-Desai and Amy Lock, The Linking Network The Power of Intergenerational Play (Download slides)
Oliver Timms, Public Health, Bradford Council (Download slides)
Your feedback
During this event, we collected together some of your feedback and reflections. Explore some of your thoughts here.
The Creative Health Exchange was designed as a space to share learning from the Bradford 2025 Creative Health programme, connect practitioners and partners, and open up conversations about what it will take to embed Creative Health more consistently across systems, places and communities.
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We hope the resources are useful for your work and that the conversations started during the event continue to develop into new collaborations and opportunities.
Thank you again for contributing your ideas, experience and energy to the event.
With best wishes,
The Creative Health Team
The Creative Health Programme is delivered in partnership with the Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership.
This event was funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.
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