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The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) is on a journey to create change and shift institutional and structural power imbalances which drive inequity in creative health work. We want to nurture and support the conditions for equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging to be embedded in creative health work and empower others to collaborate to advance change. We know that to create real change we must first reflect on how people feel in terms of their sense of belonging to the creative health sector and systems, as well as to our own NCCH structures, and connectedness to creativity as a whole.  

At NCCH, we are keen to hear your ideas about how the NCCH and the wider creative health sector can become more inclusive. 

Last year, Buse Kanber, a Masters student at UCL, did her research on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Creative Health and you can read a blog about it here.

We have been discussing Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging within our organisation and talking to our partners in the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance (CHWA) and Lived Experience Network (LENs).  We have also been talking to other organisations who are already creating change, including Writerz and Scribez. Their Director, Jemilea Wisdom-Baako, has written a guest blog here. 

 

NCCH Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Statement, and Procedures Policy & Action Plan 

NCCH commits to review and reflect on our NCCH Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging policy every year. Also we welcome any thoughts and feedback, as we know it’s not perfect and developing policy is an ongoing iterative process.
 

Recently we have worked with Debs Teale, a Lived Experience and Inclusion Expert, and an NCCH Trustee, who has developed the presentation below and a link to an open survey. Belonging means different things to different people and we want as many people to connect with creativity as possible. Creative Belonging Presentation VIEW >>

This SURVEY CLOSED on 31st September. We will be getting in touch in October with those who filled out the form to talk about next steps.