Speech extract by Monty Don OBE

Speech extract by Monty Don OBE.
Part of the National Centre for Creative Health and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing Launch of the Creative Health Review, live streamed on December 6th 2023, 4-6pm, from Science Gallery, King's College London.
Watch the full launch recording here - • Creative Health Review...
Monty Don OBE is the UK’s leading garden writer and broadcaster. He has been making television programmes for over thirty years and has been lead presenter of the BBC’s Gardeners’ World since 2003. A prolific horticultural journalist, Monty Don was the Observer’s gardening editor from 1994 until 2006. He now contributes a regular column for the Daily Mail and Gardeners’ World Magazine. Monty has written numerous books including bestsellers Nigel: My Family and Other Dogs and Down to Earth. Monty’s most recent books are The Sunday Times Bestseller, My Garden World: the natural year and Venetian Gardens, which like his books Italian, Paradise, Japanese and American 3 Gardens was created with the acclaimed photographer Derry Moore. Monty was president of the Soil Association for 10 years until 2018 and a FAO ambassador in 2020/21. He believes strongly in the value of communities of all kinds (schools, families, and rehabilitation projects) working together through an understanding and love of the land.
About the Creative Health Review Report Launch
The Chair of the Commission, Lord Howarth of Newport CBE, and Commissioners including Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Monty Don OBE, Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey OBE, Professor Martin Marshall CBE, James Sanderson, Rob Webster CBE, and Alice Wiseman spoke at the launch, and members of our Lived Experience panel talked about their personal experience of how creativity and cultural activities have benefitted their health and wellbeing. Professor Richard Trembath, representing King’s College London and King’s Health Partners, joined to reflect on the importance placed on Creative Health across the University and local health system and some early findings of the major SHAPER initiative. Also, we enjoyed poetry and music by artists from Breathe Arts Health Research.
Full Agenda and Biographies - ncch.org.uk/uploads/Creative-...
About the Creative Health Review
The National Centre for Creative Health and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing launched a Creative Health Review on 13th October 2022 and held a series of themed roundtables between Autumn 2022 and Spring 2023.
The Creative Health Review highlights the potential for creative health to help tackle pressing issues in health, social care and more widely, including health inequalities and recovery from COVID-19. It demonstrates that creativity is not just a nice to have, but fundamental to individuals, communities and systems.
It supports people to live well for longer, reducing the pressure on health and social care systems and contributing to a healthy and prosperous society.
The Review makes recommendations to Government and Metro Mayors for a cross-departmental strategy on creative health, which will support creative health to flourish and maximise its potential across key policy areas.
More about the Creative Health Review - ncch.org.uk/creative-health-r...