Mobilising Community Assets

A national interdisciplinary research programme, which tests models using local, cultural, and natural assets to help alleviate health inequalities.

[Mobilising Community Assets @MobCommAssets]

Did you know we're on Bluesky and LinkedIn too? 🌍✨ Stay connected and get all the latest updates:

🔵 Bluesky: https://t.co/HKBmeKd6B3
🔗 LinkedIn: https://t.co/Tvq7xA6d1f

[Social Biobehavioural Research Group @UCL_SBB]

Upcoming online event: building the economic business case for creative health!

📅 Thursday 22 October, 12:00-1:30pm
💡 Featuring Dr Feifei Bu and the @MobCommAssets team

https://t.co/CypofH6mXM

[Mobilising Community Assets @MobCommAssets]

What evidence do commissioners and policymakers need to invest in creative health?

Our two new guidance documents help build the economic case through robust evaluation and clearer evidence of value.

Read more: https://t.co/D5c1UInhjP

#CreativeHealth #HealthEconomics

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How can community assets help shape the future of mental health support?
Our latest blog shares evidence submitted by Mobilising Community Assets to inform England's Mental Health Strategy, highlighting creative health and community-led approaches.
https://t.co/Im99EUXaY2

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@h_chatterjee @rabya_mughal lindathomson

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Delighted to share our new @FrontPubHealth article on tackling neighbourhood health inequalities through cross-sector collaboration & community engagement.
🔗 https://t.co/qUPlHKIDAy

[Coastal Community & Creative Health @CoastalCCH]

It's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek. The CC&CH project about mental health is working with co-researchers in 3 coastal communities. Read about the experience and impact of this on our website https://t.co/tWS6MdHpWp
@Lucy_Selman @BarbaraMezes @MobCommAssets

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💭Can simplifying language for inclusion sometimes have the opposite effect?

Danny Sherwood's new blog explores how assumptions about what people with lived experience can engage with may limit participation.

Read the blog here🔗https://t.co/Xa3n1NkAqn

[Coastal Community & Creative Health @CoastalCCH]

Join us at Good Grief Hastings, 22-25 May. The festival will explore how creativity, conversation and community can help people support one another through grief and loss.
https://t.co/VmEyqAyoCo
@Lucy_Selman @BarbaraMezes @MobCommAssets

[Mobilising Community Assets @MobCommAssets]

MUST WATCH: Head over to our website to catch up on four engaging presentations that each build a case for the substantial economic benefits of creative health➡️ https://t.co/GD2TBFFCXk

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❗MUST READ: A new study from the @MobCommAssets @TheNCCH programme has been published in Frontiers of Public Health. It proposes an approach to social prescribing based on data from seven Mobilising projects. Read the full study here: https://t.co/3SkPYaWpTE

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🗓️ Join us on Friday 27 March at 11:00 GMT for a webinar focusing on the economics of creative health, hosted by the Mobilising programme @UCL, @NCCH w/ Arts Council Wales, @BangorUni and @edgehill. Grab a ticket here https://t.co/YXirQsPLAW

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‘The strength of Blackpool’s approach lies in the shared efforts of multidisciplinary team partners’ – new research from Blackpool argues for a creative community-based approach to the surge of ketamine use in Britain. Read the report here https://t.co/Xv47GNJMkA

[UCL Arts and Humanities @ArtsHumsUCL]

💡 New report led by UCL’s Helen Chatterjee reveals the scale of Blackpool’s ketamine crisis

Co-produced with 50+ professionals & people with lived experience, it highlights the urgent need for a creative community-based approach

Read more https://t.co/k2XlFT4jEk
@MobCommAssets

[Mobilising Community Assets @MobCommAssets]

📣“A call to act now”: @MobCommAssets recently launched a study investigating the growing national crisis of ketamine use. Find out more here - https://t.co/bziF4IL08S

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@MobCommAssets, w/@TheNCCH @CoastalCCH & @BlackpoolHDRC, is proud to launch a timely study about the surge of ketamine use in Blackpool. An urgent read laying bare the real costs of ketamine & highlighting powerful solutions driven by local communities➡️ https://t.co/Xv47GNJMkA

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Backed by @UKRI_News and @ahrcpress, the report delves into Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board’s approach to the integration of #creativehealth across its system. Read the full report here➡️
https://t.co/EVey9t4d3D

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Last Thursday, Mobilising Community Assets, in collaboration with @TheNCCH and @NHSGlos, celebrated the launch of our Gloucestershire ICB deep dive report at a lively event led by Dr @JaneHearst & Hannah Gorf. (link in thread👇)

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In September 2025, @MobCommAssets & @TheNCCH, in association with @VKarkou and @artswellEHU, held a webinar about the role of creative health associates. Head over to our website for more information & a recording of the event ➡️ https://t.co/gVTc3gC8Lw

[Coastal Community & Creative Health @CoastalCCH]

Listen to 2 of our Co I's, David Moss & Teresa Salami-Oru speak at the APPG on Creative Health – Neighbourhood Health and Creative Health Roundtable held earlier this week https://t.co/03CghHx8tV
@Lucy_Selman @MobCommAssets @BNSSG_ICB @EastSussexCC @BarbaraMezes

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ICYMI: @MobCommAssets & @TheNCCH held a Creative and Participatory Methods knowledge exchange workshop in March 2025. If you’re keen to learn more about all things creative and participatory methods, head over to our blog => https://t.co/wjbDc1gDW5