On 13 November 2025, Mobilising Community Assets (MCA) To Tackle Health Inequalities Programme, in partnership with the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH), hosted a webinar titled Community Assets and the 10 Year Health Plan. The event, which ran from 2pm to 3:30pm GMT, brought together participants from across the health, creative, academic and community sectors to explore the implications of the Government’s newly released Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England.
The webinar examined the relevance of the Mobilising Community Assets (MCA) To Tackle Health Inequalities Programme in the evolving landscape of UK healthcare and reflected on the foresight demonstrated across MCA and NCCH initiatives in relation to the government’s plan.
Following an introduction from the MCA team, Alex Coulter, Director of the NCCH, delivered a presentation outlining the NCCH’s mission and work since its launch in March 2021. She highlighted the organisation’s efforts to embed Creative Health across national systems through programmes such as the Creative Health Hubs, the Creative Health Toolkit, the Baring Foundation–funded NCCH Huddles, and the Arts Council England–funded Creative Health Associates Programme, which placed Creative Health Associates in every NHS region until March 2025. Alex Coulter also summarised the NCCH’s recent policy activities, including the Creative Health Review and its role in supporting the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Creative Health.
The second presentation was delivered by Linda Thomson, Senior Research Fellow in Health Inequalities for the Mobilising Community Assets programme. She shared insights from the AHRC/UKRI-funded research led by UCL’s Culture-Nature-Health Research Group, outlining how community assets—including museums, libraries, creative and community organisations, and blue and green spaces—can help to address health inequalities and be strategically integrated into health systems to support population wellbeing.
The presentations were followed by a Q&A session that allowed attendees to discuss the 10-year Health Plan’s ambitions, ask questions and explore opportunities for collaboration.
