Enabling: Inclusive Arts Practice for Public Health and Well Being

11^th October 2011
Bolton Central Museum

Bolton Council Arts Development Service invite you to an event to promote inclusive arts practice for public health and wellbeing and to inform your future decision-making and development  in this growing area of work.

In the current changing economic climate, with a move to the big society, localism bill, shared services, personalisation and opening up of services for commissioning opportunities, there is a need to equip organisations in the third sector, arts and creative industries with the knowledge needed to ensure they are able to keep up and exploit new opportunities to their fullest.   The day will cover inclusive arts practice, how to be tender ready and win contracts in health and social care and how to navigate the emerging health commissioning process.

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Brief Overview of the Programme

Clive Parkinson will introduce why the arts are so important to health and wellbeing.

Ruth Gould will focus on current legislation and the inclusive agenda, especially on Public Duty Act, Safeguarding, and examples of best practice.

Sarah Lever will tell the story of Bolton CVS, offering examples of their projects delivering health messages to hard to reach groups and particularly focusing on their arts and health projects.

Keith Morris will speak about the way health and social care is moving and the opportunities and challenges that this brings to the arts sector.  Keith will draw on recent work with health and social care commissioners who are looking to commission different approaches to supporting people with long term conditions, and on the views of different approaches wanted by patients themselves.  Keith is co-author of a guide to winning public sector contracts on behalf of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO).

Neil Walbran will present on arts commissioning for health and well being, specifically from voluntary and community sector point of view going into the new open commissioning era.  He will discuss how the Greater Manchester Health & Wellbeing Consortium provides a way for voluntary sector organisations to enter the contracts market by building positive partnerships through informing and supporting commissioning.  GMCVO strives to embed voluntary sector service provision into the Greater Manchester health agenda and ensure the commissioning process is informed from a voluntary sector perspective.

Thaira Qureshi is the strategic lead for Bolton’s voluntary health and social care sector and convenes a forum of its representatives.      

Who Should Attend?

This event will be of interest to the health and wellbeing sector, artists, the third sector and social enterprise. 

Priority for places will be given to those within the North West.

Event Programme

09.00 – 10.00            Registration, Refreshments and Networking

10.00 – 10.15            Welcome from Chair

Leesa Hellings, Health Development Specialist, Public Health Department, NHS Bolton

10.15 – 10.35            From Invest to Save to a   m a n i f e s t o  for Arts and Health: why the arts are central to well-being

Clive Parkinson, Director, Arts for Health, MMU

10.35 -  11.05            Arts & Disability: Practical Inclusion

Ruth Gould MA  FRSA, CEO, DaDa:Disability & Deaf Arts     

11.05 – 11.35            Refreshments and Networking

11.35 – 11.55            Community Engagement in Health

Sarah Lever, Community Engagement Co-Ordinator, Bolton CVS

11.55 – 12.25            Doing Better Things in Health and Social Care

Keith Morris, Adviser, Alder

12.25 – 13.25            Lunch

13.25 – 13.45            Arts Commissioning for Health and Well Being

Neil Walbran, Health Partnerships Officer, Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation (GMCVO) and Thaira Qureshi, Project Co-ordinator, Health & Care Together, Bolton CVS

13.45 – 14.35            Workshop Session A (from a choice of sessions – see below)

14.35 – 14.55            Refreshment Break and changeover workshop sessions

14.55 – 15.45            Workshop Session B (from a choice of sessions – see below)

15.45 – 16.00            Summary and Close by Chair

Leesa Hellings, Health Development Specialist, Public Health Department, NHS Bolton

Workshops (50 minutes duration)

Putting Tenders on a Sound Financial Footing

Penny Blundell and Keith Morris, Advisers at Alder

A workshop on putting tenders and contracts on a sound financial footing. Penny Blundell is a financial trainer specialising in the public sector and for many years has been an adviser with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting (CIPFA), helping finance professionals and service managers adapt to changing government policies and contracting regimes. The workshop approach will be tuned to a non-specialist's perspective to help in future tender applications.

Arts Meet Mental Health: Developing Age Appropriate Provision for Young People

Matt Hassall, Creative Well-being Project Co-ordinator, The Phoenix, Bolton and Ginny Allende-Cullen, Occupational Therapist, Early Intervention Team

This workshop will be a practical exploration of how to create services for young people who have experienced mental health problems using the arts as a tool to develop skills, confidence and encourage self-expression. We will share strategies we have used to engage young people and discuss how we have aimed to marry the needs of both medical and artistic practice

How to Plan Inclusion:  Feedback from ‘In Touch’

Phil Samphire, Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People(GMCDP)

This session will explore the work on the ‘In Touch’ project in Manchester around audience development in cultural venues. GMCDP worked with a number of organisations to look at ways to improve access and to encourage disabled people to visit arts venues. This work focused on making theatres, museums and other venues more welcoming to disabled people. GMCDP worked with partners including Manchester Museum. Cornerhouse, the Bridgewater Hall and the Royal Exchange on everything from communications through to actual attendance at the venue.  This session will explore the findings, issues and learning which will help anyone plan for inclusion within their own area of work.

arthur+martha

Lois Blackburn, Lead Artist and Co-Director, arthur+martha CIC

This hands on workshop will encourage you to explore your own creativity and give you practical ideas to pass on, exploring some of the ideas and techniques developed by experimental arts organisation arthur+martha.

arthur+martha work  with  people whose voices might not be heard – homeless people, school pupils in danger of exclusion, holocaust survivors and others. They specialize in working with older people in healthcare settings or in the community. For more information please visit www.arthur-and-martha.co.uk.

The Purple Patch approach – a guide to adapting arts practice

Gilly Bryan, Creative Director – Operations, Purple Patch Arts

The mission of Purple Patch Arts is to inspire creative adventure.  Purple Patch regularly work with adults and young people with learning disabilities or learning difficulties through the mediums of dance, drama, music, visual arts and literature.  For more information please see http://www.purplepatcharts.org/. 

This workshop will be a practical and inspiring session looking at ideas for making arts inclusive and adapting arts practice.

Arts and Health in the Social Housing Sector

Shonagh Ingram and Graham Marsden, Housing Percent for Art, Bolton at Home

Bolton at Home’s Percent for Art Service has been working with social housing residents since 1997, using the arts to deliver key regeneration objectives including addressing health inequalities in areas of deprivation. This workshop will use case studies to draw out good practise, to share strategies for success, and to highlight potential challenges.

Other Forthcoming Events

This is the first event in a series of 3 events.  The next events include:

Enabling: Arts Commissioning                 23^rd November 2011

For more information or to book please go to http://artscommissioning.eventbrite.com/

Enabling: Arts Digitalisation                      January 2012 – date TBC

Please contact us if you would like to be notified when bookings open for the other events.

Additional Information

Opportunities are available for inserts within the delegate folders at all 3 events – please contact us if this is of interest. 

There will be a Twitter hashtag for the events: #enabol