The 2025-26 Chris Drinkwater Creative Health in Primary Schools Awards are NOW OPEN!
We’re thrilled to announce that the awards are back, celebrating the incredible collaboration between education and the arts to support children’s wellbeing in primary schools across the North East and North Cumbria.
If your school or organisation has been championing creativity to make a positive impact on young lives, this is your chance to shine!
Who can apply?
Primary schools and arts partners working together to improve children’s health and wellbeing.
Applications are open now – don’t miss out!
Find out more and see the winners from previous years – visit the Healthier Together website.
New evaluation of the arts and creativity journey in the North East and North Cumbria
Since its inception, the Network has prioritised arts and creativity as a cross-cutting theme and embarked upon an arts and creativity journey. Our impactful project delivery and co-investment from strategic partners were the catalyst for creating the Arts and Creativity Advisor role in 2022. The Network has developed a position and profile in the NENC geography as a driver, initiator, and convenor of creative health with and for children and young people.
An evaluation report of our creative health journey was commissioned in 2025 to benchmark the work against the Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance’s Creative Health Quality Framework. Please find below our summary report, with many thanks to the evaluation team Sally Dixon and Lynda Thompson.
Published: September 22