Date: July 2025
Creative Health in the Devolved Space
I recently wrote an article for Arts Professional about the work of Mayoral Authorities Creative Health Network that I manage. In it I discuss the what’s happening in the devolution
Date: June 2025
Embracing the Future – partnerships, funding and AI
This week I attended an event hosted by Stronger Kent Communities about the future of the not-for-profit sector in Kent and Medway. As a freelancer its always important to consider
Date: May 2025
Art is care: Audio stories capturing the health and wellbeing impacts of creativity
I was lucky enough to be successful in an application to Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice Fund to support my audio production and storytelling skills. Its been featured
Date: May 2025
Creative Health Mentoring in Medway
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
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
