A Heart Shaped Place

The National centre for Creative Health (NCCH) collaborated on a Huddle in Gloucestershire which culminated in a co-produced event ‘A Heart Shaped Place’ on 16 July 2022 hosted by the Forest Voluntary Action Forum (FVAF) and delivered in partnership with Barnwood Trust.
The ‘A Heart Shaped Place’ event marked the conclusion of a research and scoping project exploring setting up a new co-produced mental health service in the Forest of Dean. The NCCH resourced a part-time Events Assistant, who was a young person with their own lived experience of mental health issues, and a visual evaluator and young filmmaker to document learning from the day. The event aimed to showcase existing community projects and look at ways of integrating these assets into the new proposed co-produced mental health service with NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care System (ICS). The resulting documentation including this film will be shared with commissioners