Date: May 2025
Evolve Your Creative Health Practice Funding & Mentoring
Laura supported the development of a significant application to Arts Council for this Place Partnership Programme. She designed and is delivering the Sector Support strand which includes funding and mentoring
Date: May 2025
Develop Your Creative Health Practice Workshops
Laura supported the development of a significant application to Arts Council for this Place Partnership Programme. She designed and is delivering the Sector Support strand which includes a series of
Date: April 2025
Mayoral Authorities Creative Health Network
Laura manages a national network of Mayoral and Combined Authorities across England to advance creative health in policy and practice, nationally and locally. Through peer-to-peer support, shared learning and collaboration,
Date: April 2025
Singing for Health
For this audio story Laura spent time with three different community singing groups in Kent and East Sussex, capturing their singing sessions and interviewing participants about how it makes them
Date: April 2025
How museums and galleries are addressing community wellbeing
This audio story focuses on the wellbeing programme at The Beaney, a museum and gallery in Canterbury, Kent. Laura spent time attending the wellbeing programme sessions including: Sensing Culture with
Date: March 2025
Nature based wellbeing in South West England
In this audio commission, Laura had a conversation about the wide-ranging health and wellbeing impacts of being in green spaces and nature with experts managing spaces and activities in South
Date: January 2025
Creative community gardens and wellbeing
In this audio story, Laura spent time with staff, volunteers and members of Abbey Physic Community Garden in Faversham, Kent, to capture and showcase the benefits the garden and its
Date: October 2024
Healthy New Towns
In 2018, Laura was seconded to Ebbsfleet Garden City to embed creativity into the Healthy New Towns Programme, which was a national pilot funded by NHS England to better understand
Date: September 2024
The Forest Project
In this podcast episode Laura facilitated a conversation between the artist, wellbeing worker and a participant involved in a puppetry project through West Kent Mind. The conversation delves into why
Date: August 2024
Spotlight on Creativity & Wellbeing Week
For this audio commission, we spent time at events during the 2024 Creativity & Wellbeing Week festival and interviewed a selection of people representing a range of organisations and perspectives
Date: January 2024
London Creative Health City
London Arts & Health, Greater London Authority and Arts Council England In this audio commission, we attended this ‘unconference’ which brought together over three hundred Londoners in person and online,
Date: October 2020
Cultural Commissioning
Laura’s role at Kent County Council (KCC) initially had a regeneration focus, working with arts and cultural organisations and individual artists, along with strategic bodies and education institutions, to develop
