Young people’s wellbeing through creativity and cultural volunteering

Arts & Health South West has released a toolkit on collaborative working between youth, artists, and cultural institutions to support programmes of creativity, wellbeing, and volunteering.  The 85-page guide is based on lessons learned from ‘Reach In Reach Out’ (RIRO), which brought together young people, artists, creative producers, and researchers across four sites and seven organisations in the West of England from 2022-2024.  The aim of RIRO was to co-create a programme with young people to support their creativity and wellbeing and offer pathways to community engagement and volunteering in the cultural sector.