🌿 Ymunwch â’n Cyfarfod Rhwydwaith WAHWN ym mis Mawrth ar gyfer Diwrnod Rhagnodi Cymdeithasol Cenedlaethol
Byddwn yn archwilio Gwobrau Polisi Cynefin Co Lab a sut y gall ein sector helpu i lunio newid polisi yng Nghymru.
📅 26 Mawrth
🕙 10–11:30am
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🌿 Join our March WAHWN Network Meeting for National Social Prescribing Day
We’ll explore the Cynefin Co Lab Policy Awards and how our sector can help shape policy change in Wales.
📅 26 March
🕙 10–11:30am
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#ArtsHealth #SocialPrescribing #Wales
🎨 How can creative health support public health?
A case study from @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social shows how creative projects helped engage communities and build a city-wide creative public health programme.
Read more: ncch.org.uk/resources/im...
#CreativeHealth #PublicHealth
Mwy wybodaeth ar ein gwefan 👇
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Peidiwch ag anghofio!
Y dyddiad cau ar gyfer ceisiadau Camu I Mewn yw am hanner dydd, 18 Mawrth 2026.
Want to improve outcomes and ease pressure on health and care services?
Creative health initiatives🎨🧶🪴🩰 supports prevention, mental and physical health & recovery. Many health systems are embedding it in pathways and neighbourhood care.
See how it could work 👇
ncch.org.uk/how
#CreativeHealth
More info on our website here 👇
wahwn.cymru/opportunitie...
Don't forget!
The deadline for Stepping In applications is midday, 18 March 2026!
🌼 Job alert
Forget Me Not Chorus are looking for a Session Co-ordinator for their Llanelli group, starting April 2026.
📍 Llanelli | 🕤 Apply by 9.30am, 9.3.26
🗓️ Interviews: 18.03.26
Support a valued community project for people living with dementia 💛
wahwn.cymru/opportunitie...
📚 New Creative Health Research Round Up from
@ncch.bsky.social
It brings together a wide range of creative health research & practice-based evaluation, with Wales-based work included.
ncch.org.uk/resources/cr...
📸 Camilla Greenwell © A Dance in Cancer Care Session by Move Dance Feel
🚨 Is 2026 the ‘seatbelt moment’ for the arts?
Dr Daisy Fancourt explores why this year could be a turning point for arts and health policy in this article for Arts Professional.
📖 Read the full article and let us know your answer!
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...
📢 February Network Session
Partnership Approaches to Tackling Health Inequalities
🗓 Thurs 19 Feb | ⏰ 10.00–11.30am | 📍 Online
With Dr Kathrin Thomas (DEEP END CYMRU) & Sarah Milligan (Gwella)
📢 Sesiwn Rhwydwaith Mis Chwefror
Dulliau Partneriaeth i fynd i’r afael ag Anghydraddoldebau Iechyd
🗓 19 Chwefror | ⏰ 10.00–11.30am | 📍 Ar-lein
Gyda: Dr Kathrin Thomas (DEEP END CYMRU) & Sarah Milligan (Gwella)
Have you registered yet? 👀
There's a Creative Ageing Network meeting this Thursday at 10am online. Don't miss it!
Book your free space via our Eventbrite page 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-a...
Deng mlynedd yn ôl, y mis hwn, penododd pobl Cymru Gomisiynydd Cenedlaethau'r Dyfodol cyntaf.
Mae Derek Walker yn myfyrio ac yn edrych ymlaen, yn y Big Issue, darllenwch yma: www.bigissue.com/opinion/a-de...
📣 Penodwyd Rebecca Hardy-Griffith yn Rheolwr Rhaglen ar gyfer Ail Gam Stepping In, sy’n cefnogi artistiaid sy’n siarad Cymraeg a’r rhai sydd heb gynrychiolaeth ddigonol mewn lleoliadau iechyd a chymunedol. Wedi’i ariannu gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, tan Rhagfyr 2026.
wahwn.cymru/news/231/153...
📣 Great news
Rebecca Hardy-Griffith will be Programme Manager for Phase Two of Stepping In - a programme supporting Welsh-speaking and under-represented artists to work in health and community settings.
Funded by the Arts Council of Wales, the prog runs until Dec 2026.
wahwn.cymru/news/231/134...
💊 "If the arts were a pill, we would be taking it every single day" 💊
For Professor Daisy Fancourt, the mounting evidence on how engaging with the arts affects our health should transform the way we think about healthcare.
🎉 Huge congratulations to Nancy Hey @worklifeyou.bsky.social on being awarded an OBE in the 2026 New Year’s Honours List. Nancy is a trustee here at NCCH and also Director of Evidence & Insight at @lr-foundation.bsky.social! Find out more: go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h... & ncch.org.uk/trustees/nan...
Purple text on green background: Wales increases overall spending on the arts and culture for a second successive year. This is a move in the right direction after cuts in 2024 left the nation among the lowest in Europe for culture spend. Chart showing the overall culture budget decreasing from 2023-24 to 2024-25, then increasing each year until £186.5m in 2026-27.
Yesterday, the Welsh Government published their final 2026-27 Budget, and increased culture investment for the second year on the trot 🐎
📣 Calling all artists!
One of the UK’s biggest art TV series is looking for bold, original takes on landscapes — from city streets to wide open spaces 🌆🌄
Plus, casting is open for Portrait Artist of the Year 🖼️
All the info 👇
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