Creative Health Connections (CHC)
Awarded National Lottery Community Fund Grant!
We’re delighted to announce that StoryTellThem CIC has been awarded funding from The National Lottery Community Fund to deliver our new project. Creative Health Connections (CHC).
This six-month programme will bring together communities across East London through a series of creative health workshops, using storytelling, visual arts and movement to promote wellbeing, connection and belonging.
Creative Health Connections was developed in response to feedback from community members who took part in our webinars, engagement sessions and local events.
Many told us they wanted more opportunities to explore how creativity can support their health and happiness. Inspired by this and following the success of our short explainer film on creative health, we’re thrilled to make this vision a reality with the support of The National Lottery Community Fund.
The programme aims to:
- Improve emotional wellbeing and reduce isolation
- Build stronger community connections
- Celebrate diversity and inclusion across global majority, neurodiverse, and refugee communities
- Culminate in an exhibition and celebration event during Refugee Week (June 2026), alongside other national awareness weeks such as Pride, Men’s Health Week, and World Wellbeing Week
All our programmes includes embedded evaluation and practice-based research. Data collected with informed consent to understand impact, improve delivery and contribute to the evidence base for creative health.
We’re grateful to National Lottery players for helping us make this work possible supporting local creativity, connection and community wellbeing.
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Newham
We’re excited to be delivering a four-week Creative Health programme
Barking
We’re excited to be delivering a Creative Health workshop at a neighbourhood event