Creative Health System Change Partnership
Working together to harness the power of the creative arts to improve the mental health of children and young people
Since 2024, we’ve been working together with the South East London Integrated Care Board and South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to form a new flagship partnership. Together, we want to harness the power of the creative arts to improve the mental health of children and young people in south London.
We’ve been at the heart of London’s cultural life since 1951 – the same year the government created the NHS – and have a long history of transforming lives through creativity and the arts, bringing people together and fostering wellbeing. That’s why we’re mobilising, both ourselves and the sector, around the biggest health challenge of our time.
The aim
This partnership between ourselves (the Southbank Centre), the South East London Integrated Care Board and South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust will focus on supporting the development of:
The Southbank Children and Young People’s Creative Health Centre
A dedicated space for creative health programmes that improve and support the mental health and wellbeing of local children and young people.
Waiting Well Interventions
Supporting children on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) waiting lists through creative activities.
Creative Health Youth Programmes
Using the arts and creativity to support emotional wellbeing and resilience and promote better mental health outcomes for young people.
Over the coming months, we’ll work with the South East London Integrated Care Board, the NHS and cultural, voluntary and charitable sector partners in setting a longer-term roadmap to help deliver key programmes for local communities.
Our Creative Health Partnership Development Group
We are really grateful to the members of our Creative Health Partnership Development Group (listed below) who are supporting this work. The group is independently chaired by Sunita Pandya Malik, Executive Consultant.
- Barbara Ballabio: Service Manager, The Nest
- Joel Balkwill: Head of Arts and Wellbeing, Southbank Centre
- Neil Balmer: Programme Lead, South London Listens, SEL ICB and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation
- Dami Bamidele: Head of Programme Delivery Lambeth, Black Thrive
- Laura Bassett: Director of Partnerships, Oval Learning Cluster
- Simon Boote: Programme Director, Lambeth CYP Alliance
- Lucy Bradshaw: Executive Director and Co-CEO, London Bubble Theatre
- Alexandra Brierley: Director of Creative Engagement, Southbank Centre
- Janet Browne: Creative Health Programme Manager, Raw Material Music & Media Education
- Rebecca Cohen: Public Health Practitioner (Children & Young People), Public Health, Lambeth Council
- Rosie Dalton-Lucas: Head of Place and Partnerships, Public Health, Southwark Council
- Jon Daly: Project Manager, Strategy Team, Evelina London
- Hannah Dye: Head of Programmes, Breathe Arts Health Research
- Nicola Dykes: Service Director, CAMHS, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation
- Flora Faith-Kelly: Creative Health Lead, SEL ICB
- Aneira Jenkins: Development and Operations Manager, Kinetika Bloco
- Jhemar Jonas: Plug In Young Consultant
- Russell Jones: Assistant Director, Integrated Commissioning, Southwark Council and SEL ICB
- Claude Jousselin: Deputy Director, CAMHS, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation
- Dr Nancy Kuchemann : GP and Co-Chair Partnership Southwark / Deputy Medical Director SEL ICB
- Arji Manuelpillai: Artist & Creative Facilitator
- Tamzyn Marchev: CEO, Kinetika Bloco
- Ryan J. Matthews-Robinson: Founder and CEO, Poetic Unity
- Kieron Morris: Director, Rezon8
- Audrey Muwandi, Programme and Partnerships Manager (Children, Young People & Families), Black Thrive
- Rachel Nelken: CEO, Raw Material Music & Media Education
- Edmund Ng: Head of Strategy, Evelina London
- Mottie Omideyi: Lead for Lewisham Black Voluntary Network
- Gay Palmer: Social Prescriber Link Worker/Health and Wellbeing Coach Team Lead, South Southwark Primary Care Network
- John Poyton: CEO and Founder, The Well Centre
- Ana Rei: Senior Social Prescribing Link Worker, StockWellBeing PCN
- Anne Roots: Director, Oval Learning Cluster
- Sara Saunders: Programme Lead, King’s Maudsley Partnership
- Dr Vikesh Sharma: GP and Practice Partner, Grantham Practice / Co-Founder, Thriving Stockwell
- Geetika Singh: Programme Lead System Delivery Partnership Southwark, NHS South East London
- Dan Stoten: Director of Integrated Children’s Commissioning & Youth Services, London Borough of Lambeth & NHS South East London Integrated Care System
- Marta Sordyl: Thriving Stockwell Community Builder, Stockwell Partnership
- Nancy Stridgen: Cultural Partnerships Manager, Lewisham Council
- Cathy Weatherald: Cultural Inclusion Manager, Economy, Culture & Skills, Lambeth Council
- Simon Whitlock: Head of Service for Children and Young People Joint Commissioning, Lewisham Council
- Jemilea Wisdom-Baako: Artist and Founder, Writerz and Scribez CIC
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