Our Place

Launched in late 2024, Our Place is a three‑year, place‑based creative health initiative serving the market town of Leominster, the South Wye area of Hereford City and the rural community of the Golden Valley. Led by the Herefordshire Cultural Partnership (HCP) the programme is delivered in collaboration with Leominster Cultural Consortium, Rural Media, and Meadow Arts. Working alongside health and wellbeing partners and local community groups, Our Place aims to establish a sustainable model for creative health provision that integrates into broader social and health frameworks.

By the end of the three-year programme, we expect to have:

• Fostered pride in place across all three locations.
• Used arts & culture to address health and social inequality, particularly impacting children, young people and elders in all three locations.
• Trialled new approaches that draw on cross-sector innovation, particularly linking arts, health, and wellbeing with social prescribing networks and the Local Authority Talk Community network countywide.
• Delivered new skills, training, and volunteering opportunities for communities and facilitators, enhancing social mobility.
• Developed sustainable co-creation models for arts provision in Herefordshire.
• Created an exemplary project of creative programming, analysis, and consultation that can be disseminated and employed by rural communities across the UK.

Our Place is supported by public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England and match funding from Herefordshire Council under the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and public health funding.