Thrive

Culture helps us live well.

Culture can help Sussex live healthier, happier and more connected lives, making prevention, participation and wellbeing part of everyday life.

Sussex is already becoming a place where culture and health meet in serious practice. East Sussex’s Director of Public Health has set an ambition to establish the county as a creative health county. In Hastings, Project Art Works collaborates with people with complex support needs, families, health and social care.Chichester Festival Theatre’s BOLD workshops provide artistic sessions for people living with dementia and their carers; its pilot found that on average each workshop improved participant’s moods by 38%.

These examples point to a much larger opportunity already emerging across Sussex.