🎉 Applications Now Open! 🎉 Chris Drinkwater Creative Health in Primary Schools Award 2026

These awards celebrate inspiring creative health projects that support children’s health, wellbeing, imagination and learning and we’d love to hear about the brilliant work happening in your school or organisation!

📅 Deadline for applications: 2 March 2026

▶️ Hear a short message from Martin Wilson, Arts & Creativity Advisor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXI-LshYz8Q

If your project uses arts, creativity or cultural engagement to support children’s health and wellbeing, we encourage you to apply. Please share with colleagues, networks and partners who may be interested.

Who can apply?

• We are targeting this opportunity into settings in more deprived communities and where socioeconomic and health inequalities are most prevalent.
• Schools that have been running a creative health project in collaboration with an artist or arts organisation.
• Creative organisations already working within schools.
• We are particularly interested in learning about the outcomes you have achieved, with emphasis on the evidence you have in regards to improving the wellbeing of young people. This means that we want to know about projects that are completed, or have been running for long enough for evidence of impact to have been gathered.

Applications are open now until Monday 2^nd March 2026.

Winners will be announced at a virtual awards ceremony on Thursday 26^th March 2026. 

Find out more and see the winners from previous years – visit the Healthier Together website.