Bradford 2025 delivered a year-long Creative Health initiative, representing the first significant investment in social prescribing by a UK City of Culture and one of the largest single-year, single-local-authority commitments to social prescribing in the UK.

Across talks, workshops and creative moments, you’ll hear from a wide mix of voices, including keynote speaker and Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin, artists, practitioners and people with lived experience, sharing what Creative Health looks like on the ground, in communities, and how it’s influencing placemaking, community care and change across councils.

• Day 1 (10am-5pm): A showcase of Creative Health in practice exploring how to build Creative Health into places, systems and policy.
• Day 2 (10am-1.30pm): A special focus on Creative Health projects working with pre-natal support, children and young people, including examples from early years, school-age settings and youth mental health.

Open to practitioners, organisations, policymakers, educators, health professionals and lived experience leaders — anyone interested in Creative Health is welcome.

If you wish to attend both days of this event, please make sure you book tickets to Day 1 and Day 2.

Day 1

10.00-10.30: Arrival & Networking
10.30: Welcome
10.40: Keynote 1 – Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire
11.50: Panel 1 – Creative Health Across the Bradford 2025 Programme
11.30: Break
11.40: Workshops
12.55: Lunch
13.55: Reflections
14.05: Panel 2 – Working Together on Creative Health Across—What Ambition Requires
14.45: Break
14.55: Workshops
16.10: Break
16.20: Reflections & Close
16.30-17.00: Networking

Day 2

10.00: Arrival & Networking
10.20: Welcome
10.30: Keynote 1 – Prof. Daisy Fancourt (pre-recorded)
11.10: Panel 1 – Why Early Creative Health Matters, from pregnancy to adolescence
11.50: Break
12.00: Workshops
13.15: Break
13.25: Reflections & Close
13.35: Optional networking