Chris Drinkwater Creative Health in Primary Schools Award

The Chris Drinkwater Award celebrates creative health partnership projects in primary schools across the North East and North Cumbria. 

Creative health approaches address health and wellbeing through engagement in creative activities such as dance, drama, visual art, film making, music, heritage, etc. 

To find out more about the Award, including examples of past winners and other creative health projects, please visit the Healthier Together website.

The Chris Drinkwater Award is administered by North East Museums, in partnership with the North East and North Cumbria Child Health and Wellbeing Network. 

We are particularly interested in learning about the outcomes you have achieved, with emphasis on the evidence you have of improving the wellbeing of young people. 

This means that we want to know about projects that are completed, or have been running for long enough for evidence of impact to have been gathered.

To apply for this year's award, you can:

• Complete our online application form

Alternatively, you can email one of the following documents to Melanie.Burgess@northeastmuseums.org.uk:

• A short (no more than five slides) Powerpoint Presentation
• An audio file, no more than five minutes long
• A video, no more than five minutes long
• An A2 poster

For further advice on what to include in your submission, please download our Guidance Notes (Word, 90 KB).

Until Thursday 31 October 2024, you can also contact one of our Creative Health Champions for further information, advice and guidance on the award:

Amanda Gould - Queens Hall Arts Centre
Rachel Adamson-Brown - Bigfoot Arts Education
Elizabeth Kane - Artist and Creative Producer
Jane Gray - Blue Cabin
Kay Harrop - Evergreen Primary School
Kate Swaddle - St Joseph's Catholic Junior School, Birtley
Wendy Kelly - Public Health South Tees
Martin Wilson – Arts & Creativity Advisor
Heather Corlett – Network lead

The closing date for submissions is Friday 7 March 2025.