Government and national agencies

Arts Council England
www.artscouncil.org.uk

Children and Young People’s Unit
www.allchildrenni.gov.uk

Equality and Human Rights Commission
www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/Pages/default.aspx

Department for Culture Media and Sport
www.culture.gov.uk

Department for Children, Schools and Families
www.dcsf.gov.uk/

Department for Health
www.doh.gov.uk

Our Healthier Nation
www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm43/4386/4386-00.htm

Sure Start
www.surestart.gov.uk

Learning and skills Council
www.lsc.gov.uk

Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber
www.goyh.gov.uk

Arts and Humanities Research Council
www.ahrc.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx

Creative communities
www.creativecommunities.org.uk

NESTA
www.nesta.org.uk

NIACE
www.niace.org.uk

Child Trauma
www.childtrauma.org

Young Minds
www.youngminds.org.uk

National Council For Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)
www.ncvo-vol.org

Voluntary Arts Network
www.voluntaryarts.org

Youth arts on line
www.youthartsonline.org

English National Youth Arts Network
www.enyan.co.uk

Early Arts
www.earlyarts.co.uk

Anne Peaker Centre
www.apcentre.org.uk

Other regional arts and health networks

Greater Manchester arts and health network
www.wlct.org/gmahn/gmahn.htm

Arts for Health Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
www.artsforhealthcornwall.org.uk/Default.aspx

Arts and health south west
www.ahsw.org.uk

Norfolk Arts and Health Partnership
www.norfolkartsforum.co.uk/norfolkartsandhealth/home.asp

Praxis Arts and Health Network – West Midlands
www.praxisartsandhealth.org.uk

Creative Remedies – Linking Arts and Health across the West Midlands
www.creativeremedies.org.uk/index.asp

Arts for Health Cornwall
www.artsforhealthcornwall.org.uk

International agencies

The Society for the Arts in Healthcare
www.thesah.org

Regional organisations

Arts Council England Yorkshire
www.artscouncil.org.uk/regions/homepage.php?rid=9

Yorkshire Forward
www.yorkshire-forward.com

Yorkshire Futures
www.yorkshirefutures.com

Yorkshire Cultural Observatory
www.yco.org.uk

Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Forum
www.yhregforum.org.uk

Yorkshire and Humberside Public Health Observatory
www.yhpho.org.uk

Funding advice

NHS Funding Leads
www.networks.nhs.uk/185.php

Arts Council England
www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/gfta2006.php

The Big lottery Fund
www.biglotteryfund.co.uk

The Heritage Lottery fund
www.hlf.org.uk

Awards For All
www.awardsforall.org.uk

Charities Information Bureau
www.fit4funding.org.uk

University research groups for arts and health

The Centre for Medical Humanities
www.dur.ac.uk/cmh

Anglia Ruskin University/University of Central Lancashire
www.socialinclusion.org.uk/resources/index.php?subid=71
www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/health/socialwork/research/mental%20health/projects/

Arts and Health research Programme, University of West England
hsc.uwe.ac.uk/net/research/Default.aspx?pageid=229

Arts for Health, Manchester Metropolitan University
www.artsforhealth.org
www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/investtosave/

East Midlands Arts and Health Research Group, Universities of Nottingham and Northampton
www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/stafflookup/

Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth
www.pms.ac.uk/pms/research/upstream.php
www.upstream-uk.com/Evaluation.html

Built environment

Commission for Architecture and The Built Environment
www.cabe.org.uk

Kings Fund Centre
www.kingsfund.org.uk

Architects For Health
www.architectsforhealth.com

Regional Arts Organisations delivering arts and health

Open Art
www.open-art.org.uk

Artists In Mind
www.artists-in-mind.org.uk

Dance for Life
www.dancefor-bradford.org.uk

DARTS
www.thepoint.org.uk

Dead Earnest
www.deadearnest.co.uk

Diva
www.diva-arts.org.uk

Forge Arts for Health
www.healthy-living-barnsley.co.uk/artsforhealth.html

Hoot Music
www.hootmusic.co.uk

Jabadao
www.jabadao.org

Qdos Dance Theatre
www.qdosdancetheatre.co.uk

Sharrow Encounters Arts Initiative
www.sharrowencounters.org.uk

The Word Mill
www.thewordmill.com

Yorkshire Women’s Theatre
www.yorkshirewomentheatre.com

Pioneer Projects
www.pioneerprojects.org.uk