A big thank you to everyone who attended #GlamCares2025 from across the UK! A great day exploring care for practitioners in all models of engagement work and lots to take away!

Our final workshop explored how making zines can help you explore and present ideas, construct futures and think creatively. As a tool for participant and practitioner wellbeing, zines give space for reflection and community building

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Setting us up for a workshop to try out some wellbeing activities, Tom Hughes from Dumfries and Galloway sets the scene for simple and low cost activities museums can offer, including warm spaces and wellbeing walks

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Setting us up for a workshop to try out some wellbeing activities, Tom Hughes from Dumfries and Galloway sets the scene for simple and low cost activities museums can offer, including warm spaces and wellbeing walks

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The Art House share their programme for perinatal mental health care using creativity., building on a need recognised by midwives.

the-arthouse.org.uk/maternal-jou...

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Our final session explores Creative Health, a practice we've heard a lot about. Creative activities can support a huge range of participants as well as practitioners, and work at all scales.

First, a presentation on creativity for birthing parents, then hands-on activities!

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'real life is messy and unpredictable, and community engagement should reflect this'.

Plan and allow for adaptation from the start to better care for staff, participants, and increase impact

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-speak to funders to ask for flexibility when things change
-understand the pressures and ambitions of partner organisations and work together to define success
-explore different ways to capture impact
-realistic targets, value meaning over mass participation

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Pallant House has a long-running art engagement programme, and explore how to plan for the unexpected - exciting or challenging, from unrealistic targets to unknown participants to magic moments.

Change your definition of a successful project!

pallant.org.uk/learn-with-u...

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Questions from Bryony to ask yourself about some of the things that may be taking up your energyb- think about what is in or outside your control, and putting your energy into the things that you can control.

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GLAM cares board member Bryony Rowntree now leads a workshop on centring and empowering yourself, exploring spheres of control and giving tools to take away.

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Qu - how do you get buy-in for creative research?
- creativity opens up different conversations
- it allows for flexibility and responsiveness
- 'messy' research can demonstrate real impact

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Qu for the panel - ways of working with people with specific lived experience?
- work with partner orgs who have their best interests in mind and expertise
- treat people as individuals
- take time to build trust
- work 'with'/'by' people, not 'about' them

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York Museums Trust created a framework for participation, defining what it means to them, what a 'conmunity' is, and why this matters to the organisation. They brought teams together to create the framework and embed it as a way of working.

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Birmingham Museums Trust is in a unique partnership with the council's Public Health department, looking at how heritage can change health behaviour, and using participatory research and balancing museum methods and Health data needs.

www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/about/what-w...

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Dulwich Picture Gallery used Participatory Action Research to genuinely listen to what communities needed from the gallery. A year of working in local venues and sharing power built trust and is changing the way the gallery works in the future as well their offer.

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Our afternoon sessions start with a presentation, panel and workshop on community engagement. Advocating for staff wellbeing in this work, and empowering yourself while planning for the unexpected!

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Advocating for the value of community work can be a challenge, and recognising that the relationship is as/more important as a physical output

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