WAHWN (Wales Arts Health & Well-being Network) is managed by Engage Cymru. WAHWN is a rapidly expanding network of colleagues delivering arts and health work in Wales. The Network represents members from the arts, health and HE sectors and includes practitioners working across the full range of art form practice in health, arts and other community settings. www.wahwn.cymru
Aim: To support, develop and research arts and health practice in Wales
Objectives:
To act as a hub for networking, collaboration, dissemination and research on arts and health in practice throughout Wales - via regular meetings, emails and the website
To support the resilience and capacity of the sector in Wales by providing and signposting to quality professional development
To support and encourage ethical research and evaluation practices that raise the profile of the arts to health and wellbeing to a national and international sector.- via events, training, collaboration, dissemination and discussion and the Cross Party Group on Arts and Health
To provide a national voice for arts and health practitioners in Wales at a strategic level, demonstrating best practice of existing policy implementation (such as the Well-being of Future Generations Act) and influencing new policies through all available platforms
