Salford Creative Health Network Meeting

Shaping how culture and creativity can improve wellbeing in Salford.

The next Salford Creative Health Network meeting is on Wednesday 3 December 2025, from 11am to 1pm at Eccles Town Hall.

• This meeting is for any Salford community groups, creatives, arts organisations, health or social care services looking to understand the relationship between arts and health better.
• If you’ve had personal experience of creativity improving your wellbeing – then we’d love you to join the Network.
• Members of lived-experience forums are especially welcome, as are artists and creative practitioners.

The focus of this meeting is on the connection between creative health and travel, transport & movement.

Whenever you talk to people about the barriers to creative activity in Salford – the first thing that gets mentioned is travel and transport. At this meeting, we aren’t going to be re-organising bus and tram routes in Salford! But we are going to talk about the key issues are that stop people moving outside their immediate neighbourhoods. We’ll hear about creative projects aimed at reducing travel anxiety, the links between creative and physical activity, and think about sustainable solutions to getting people to creative opportunities across the city.

If you have any access or sensory needs, please let us know. There is an access budget available – if you would like more information, please email caroline.alexander@scll.co.uk.

Have any concerns about travel & transport? It relates to being creative or engaging with the arts in Salford – please tell us here. This will help us understand the key problems in advance of the meeting.

Useful info:

• Venue address: Eccles Town Hall
• All travel details
• The venue is wheelchair accessible
• Please tell us when you register if you have any access needs
• There is an access budget for anyone who needs help to attend this meeting
• There is also the option for people who cannot physically attend this meeting to join online. But we do encourage those who can attend to join us in person.

The Network is chaired by: Caroline Alexander (Salford Community Leisure), Dennis Baldwin (Start to End Suicide), Janet Charlesworth (Uncurbed Collective), Yolande Ghola (Salford Community Upskilling), Maggie Lister (Wellbeing Matters), Nicola Prescott (Salford Public Health) and Nicola Swann (Salford CVS).

If you have any questions, or to join the mailing list for the Salford Creative Health Network, please email caroline.alexander@scll.co.uk.