APPG AHW Webinar: How can the creativity support people who are shielding/vulnerable during Covid-19

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPG AHW) Webinar hosted on 16 July 2020 by Arts and Health South West (former secretariat for the APPG AHW).
How can the arts and creativity support people who are shielding and vulnerable during Covid-19?
Speakers talked from a range of perspectives about the context of Covid-19 and how the arts and creativity have been used to support people who are shielding and vulnerable in our communities.
Speakers included:
- Dr Ben Spencer, Member of Parliament for Runnymede and Weybridge
- Baroness Young of Hornsey, member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Covid-19 and Co-Chair of the Foundation for Future London
- Dr Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology, UCL, lead on the UCL Covid study
- Dr Neil Churchill OBE, NHSE Director, Experience, Participation and Equalities Group, Covid-19 Workstream Lead for Non-NHS Support for Vulnerable Individuals and Groups
- Ellen Rule, Director of Transformation and Service Redesign, Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
- Cllr Julian German, Leader of Cornwall County Council and Vice-Chair of Culture, Tourism and Sport Board, LGA
- Victoria Hume, Director, Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance
- Vikas Kumar MBE, Director, GemArts, Gateshead
- Patrick Fox, Chief Executive, Heart of Glass, St Helens