How the arts-on-prescription service in Sefton is turning every £1 of expenditure into £6.95 worth of health benefits.
Creative Alternatives, the arts-on-prescription service of Sefton MBC, was founded in 2006 with the award of £210,000 from the Treasury’s Invest to Save budget.
The programme was a pioneer in the use of cultural and arts programming to support adults with depression, stress or anxiety.
Since 2012, Sefton’s arts service has been transformed and reshaped both by restructuring and by the completion of a new multi-art form cultural venue: the Atkinson in Southport. The Atkinson is the result of an investment of over £17.8m from art fund Seachange, the North West Development Agency, Arts Council England, Sefton MBC and the Heritage Lottery Fund. It was one of the last major publicly funded cultural investments before the economic downturn and continues to be owned and run by Sefton MBC... Keep reading on Local Government Chronicle
Creative Alternatives, the arts-on-prescription service of Sefton MBC, was founded in 2006 with the award of £210,000 from the Treasury’s Invest to Save budget.
The programme was a pioneer in the use of cultural and arts programming to support adults with depression, stress or anxiety.
Since 2012, Sefton’s arts service has been transformed and reshaped both by restructuring and by the completion of a new multi-art form cultural venue: the Atkinson in Southport. The Atkinson is the result of an investment of over £17.8m from art fund Seachange, the North West Development Agency, Arts Council England, Sefton MBC and the Heritage Lottery Fund. It was one of the last major publicly funded cultural investments before the economic downturn and continues to be owned and run by Sefton MBC... Keep reading on Local Government Chronicle