Community Hubs
Arts Well is partnering with Community Hubs across Cornwall to enable better access to creative activities, bringing a wealth of benefits.
We are working with nine Community Hubs throughout Cornwall to deliver creative activities to improve people’s health and wellbeing.
Alongside other services already offered by the Hubs, our creative health sessions will provide opportunities for people to meet and connect with others, learn new skills and build confidence through arts-based activities.
Sessions are designed to support people experiencing mental or physical ill health, as well as other challenges, in order to improve health and wellbeing through creative workshops.
With funding from the Cornwall Community Levelling Up Programme and the VCSE Health Improvement Fund through Cornwall Community Foundation, as well as sessions directly commissioned by some hubs, we will be providing creative facilitators to deliver regular sessions aimed at improving health and wellbeing and addressing loneliness and isolation. The groups we are working with include mixed age groups, youth groups, groups for older people and families.
We are also recruiting volunteers to support the activities being delivered as part of the programme. Please get in touch if you would like to speak to us about volunteering by emailing enquiries@arts-well.com
Over the next few months we will be working with:
Newquay Orchard
Bosavern Community Farm
Deviock (Downderry Methodist Church)
Hayle Library and Day Centre
Camborne Cluster of Churches
The Dracena Centre, Falmouth
Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change in Redruth and St Austell
Launceston Library
If you are a hub or organisation interested in partnering with us please do get in touch.
Community Hubs Trainng and Networking
In addition, we are running free training and networking to anyone who volunteers or works at any community hub in Cornwall who is interested to learn some practical approaches to delivering creative health activities. If you work or volunteer at a hub we would love to see you. The training is free to you and enabled by funding from Public Health.
Find our latest Community Hubs events on our Eventbrite page here to book if you would like to attend.
Community hubs receive funding from the NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly via Volunteer Cornwall. The hub network offers safe and warm places for people to socialise and take part in activities. Here is a link to a map of all the hubs operating in Cornwall and more information here on the Volunteer Cornwall website.
People may be referred to the sessions by social prescribers or community health and wellbeing workers (CHWW) as well as other services working with the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCSE) sector that support the hubs. You can also just join in by speaking to your local community hub.