WAHWN (Wales Arts Health & Well-being Network) is the national sector support body for arts health and wellbeing.. We are a rapidly expanding network of over 1200 colleagues representing arts, health, social care, third sector, academia, policy and funding.
Purpose:
To drive the sustainable development and growth of a thriving, representative and inclusive arts and health sector in Wales that connects and supports arts and health professionals, and champions creative participation. To act as a superpower to unlock growth, prosperity, health, well-being, and resilience.
Objectives:
To act as a hub for networking, collaboration, dissemination and research on arts and health in practice throughout Wales - via regular meetings, emails and the website
To support the resilience and capacity of the sector in Wales by providing and signposting to quality professional development
To support and encourage ethical research and evaluation practices that raise the profile of the arts to health and wellbeing to a national and international sector.- via events, training, collaboration, dissemination and discussion and the Cross Party Group on Arts and Health
To provide a national voice for arts and health practitioners in Wales at a strategic level, demonstrating best practice of existing policy implementation (such as the Well-being of Future Generations Act) and influencing new policies through all available platforms
