Agenda item

Kathy McArdle, Service Director, Place (Regeneration and Culture) provided a verbal report on the Creativity and Wellbeing Week held between the 16^th and 22^nd May, 2022.

She particularly commented on the following:

·         she recognised the energy and effort from the Public Health team in the launch of the week.

·         The week had explored what creativity, culture and wellbeing actually meant in a range of settings.

·         Various events throughout the week had been attended by a whole range of providers.

·         A wide range of activities ran throughout the week to improve engagement and promote creativity and wellbeing.

·         A theme had emerged from the final workshop of living well and how a culture of creativity was key to have a healthy and productive life.

She was keen to co-produce next steps which included:

• Leaders at every level to kickstart these conversations.
• Short-term and long-term actions needed to drive this forward.
• Revisit the terminology to remove complicated jargon.
• Develop a citizen led cultural strategy for the borough.
• Develop a mechanism to promote great practice.
• A Role to support infrastructure around this area – culture, health and creativity role sitting within Barnsley Museums.
• Evaluate communications – assess engagement of activities.

• Develop a Culture Strategy – citizen led, co-produced, involving the Health and Wellbeing Board.
• Projects to develop going forward.
• Support from the Board – engagement with networks to develop strategy.
• Engaging Health and Care Teams across BMBC and partners.

The Chair thanked Kathy McArdle for the update and invited comments from board members.

RESOLVED that

(i)    the Board recognises that Creativity and Wellbeing Week was a great opportunity for people to reconnect and pick up different activities; and

(ii)  the Board continue to support the work around the Culture Strategy.