Grounded in science…

Department of Health and Social Care (2025) shared that employees being happier and healthier leads to higher-quality work.

Integrating arts into workplaces (such as healthcare environments) has been shown to bring joy to staff, in turn helping with employee retention and recruitment (One Nation/One Project, 2025).

Engaging with creative play and the arts has been shown to lower stress (Sonke et al., 2025).

“The arts are medicine, and the arts are a source of healing. And that’s why they deserve prioritization and investment, and they deserve our attention as we think about how to address this loneliness epidemic.” –U.S. Surgeon General Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy (National Endowment for the Arts, 2024)

Group Creative Workshops: Arts-based group activities, such as drumming, have been shown to lower levels of anxiety by 20% (Fancourt et al., 2016).

Gardening: In a study with in a study with 3,725 adults, picking up gardening as a hobby was affiliated with decreased signs of anxiety during the pandemic (Bone et al., 2023).

Arts-based group activities, such as drumming, have been shown to lower levels of depression by 38% (Fancourt et al., 2016).

In a study with in a study with 3,725 adults, picking up gardening as a hobby was affiliated with decreased signs of depression during the pandemic (Bone et al., 2023).

“People who engage in arts and culture have lower incidence of depression during adulthood.” (Social Biobehavioural Research Group, 2023)

A study with over 12,700 participants demonstrated that increased engagement with arts-based experiences enhanced social cohesion: “More arts participation was associated with higher social cohesion; in this dose-response relationship, individuals who participated 13 days per year (weekly or daily) or more had higher social cohesion scores than those who participated 0–12 days (less than once per month)“ (Sonke et al., 2025).

Increased arts participation has been shown to significantly enhance social cohesion, trust, and solidarity (by 12.6%) at the population level (One Nation/One Project, 2025).

Additionally, in a survey with responses from over 10,300 American adults, 94% of them agree that arts engagement enhances social cohesion in their community (Sonke et al., 2025).

Arts-based group activities, such as drumming, have been shown to enhance levels of social resilience by 23% (Fancourt et al., 2016).

Arts-based group activities, such as drumming, have been shown to enhance levels of wellbeing by 16% (Fancourt et al., 2016).

Additionally, in a survey with responses from over 10,300 American adults, 96.2% of them agree that arts engagement enhances wellbeing in their community (Sonke et al., 2025).

The University of East Anglia and RAND Europe estimated low wellbeing and mental health to cost the National Health Services approximately £12.1 billion each year (Daniels et al., 2022).