Creative Health in North Somerset brings together local residents, artists, community organisations and health partners to improve wellbeing through creativity and connection.

Through the Creative Health Board, partners are embedding creative approaches into care – including projects such as the Good Grief Festival and Coastal Community & Creative Health programmes.

The two North Somerset Locality Partnerships are also preparing to deliver Creative People & Places, a programme that puts communities in the lead of shaping local cultural activity. Its first year will build local partnerships, recruit creative producers and develop a Citizens’ Jury to guide investment in grassroots creative projects.

Alongside this, the planned Community Chest fund will support small, locally‑led initiatives, ensuring creative health is inclusive, place‑based and driven by what matters most to local people.

The North Somerset Children and Young People’s Wellbeing Fund invests in creative, community‑based programmes that support young people’s mental health, wellbeing and healthy lifestyles.

Funded by the North Somerset Locality Partnerships, Sirona care & health and North Somerset Council Public Health, the Fund supports seven VCSE organisations delivering activities such as nature‑based programmes, mentoring, counselling, perinatal mental health support and outdoor creative projects.

These activities provide young people, particularly those facing emotional‑based school avoidance, high needs, or barriers to statutory support, with safe, supportive spaces to build confidence, improve wellbeing and strengthen social connections.

In Woodspring, the Locality Partnership has also invested in two social prescribers based in North Somerset Council’s Family Hub, connecting young people to these seven programmes as well as the wider VCSE system.