Can Artistic Activity Improve Health & Well-being? - Tim Joss

In this episode, I am very honoured to speak to Tim Joss - founder of the social enterprise - Aesop. We talk about Tim's passion for the arts and how Aesop is applying arts-based solutions to society's problems. We also talk about the Dance To Health programme and Prescribe-Arts social prescribing initiative. This was an interesting conversation which identifies the challenges faced by Arts & Health organisations and how we may be able to utilise social prescribing to bring more arts programmes to the health service. Leave a comment below and let me know what you think.Don’t forget to rate, review and share - it really does help up grow 😊See you next time!---About Tim Joss:Tim is a social entrepreneur. He is the Chief Executive & Founder of Aesop – www.ae-sop.org and @AesopHealth. Aesop’s vision is ‘A future when arts solutions for society’s problems are valued and available for all who need them’. It runs Dance to Health, the national falls prevention dance programme – aiming to be the first arts programme which becomes a national health service. Aesop has also developed the first evaluation framework for arts and health, the first annual survey of health sector attitudes to the arts, university-accredited arts-and-health training for busy health and arts professionals and major national arts conferences and showcases for health decision-makers. Tim is a graduate in mathematics from Oxford University and in piano and composition from the Royal Academy of Music. His past activities include Artistic Director & Chief Executive of the Bath International Music Festival, Senior Manager at the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Chair of the International Society for Music Education’s Community Music Commission, Director of the Rayne Foundation and a founder of National Numeracy and the Arts Impact Fund (the first social investment fund for the arts). He was appointed a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2005.---Follow Amal:Instagram @amal.ladTwitter @AmalLadMusicCreative Medicine:Instagram: @creativemedicineukwww.creativemedicine.co.uk