Opportunities & Events
Artist Call Out: Public Health Wales - Inspiring action to protect and promote mental wellbeing
Location: Wales | Start Date: Deadline: 09 September 2025
Summary:
Could your creativity help spread the National Conversation on mental wellbeing? Public Health Wales would like to commission 6 artists to create high-quality digital content on the theme of “inspiring action to protect and promote mental wellbeing”. This will support Hapus – our long-term programme to help protect and improve the mental wellbeing of people in Wales.
Content:
The Hapus programme includes several elements, all aimed at encouraging people to prioritise their mental wellbeing and to engage with activities that support it. We work with national and local partners in the public and voluntary and community sectors, raising awareness of the existing evidence base on what works for wellbeing, building further evidence and, crucially, starting a National Conversation about mental wellbeing.
In previous commissions artists have helped to engage people in the conversation, provoking people to think about what wellbeing means to them.
We now want to share ideas and resources that help inspire us all to take action to support our mental wellbeing and that of others.
The Brief
We are looking for artists across a range of artforms who can create high quality, digital content that inspires and motivates people in our priority groups to take action to support their mental wellbeing.
Your creative content should be co-produced with people from one or more of the following groups:
- Females.
- 18-29 year olds
- Those reporting a disability, living in poor health or with long term health conditions, and can include those who care for them.
- People living in circumstances with fewer resources and opportunities.
- Those from ethnic minority groups
Your creative content should:
- Inspire people to engage with Hapus.
- Motivate people to act on improving wellbeing.
Artists will need to:
- Have experience of co-producing work with priority groups or have identified supporting partners with relevant experience.
- Draw on inspiration from the evidence base and bring to life key themes and concepts through content that can be shared digitally.
- Have a clear sense about how making time for what matters to you supports individual and community wellbeing.
- Produce professional and broadcast standard digital or film content, either themselves or through partnership with a film-maker or others with the necessary technical expertise. Outputs will be digital content and could include for example, spoken word, creative writing, visual art, short film, song.
We are keen to commission content from artists based across Wales. Artists should focus on developing and producing outputs in their chosen language. Public Health Wales will consider if/what translation is appropriate based on the creative output produced and will cover any costs as necessary. We welcome proposals from artists from culturally and ethnically diverse backgrounds as well as D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists.
Fees
Fees of up to £3,000 per commission are available to enable artists, arts organisations or partnerships of artists and filmmakers to plan and deliver digital content to a professional standard.
We would like to commission 6 separate pieces of digital content through this call. We anticipate further opportunities being available in the future, as part of the Hapus programme.
How to apply
Deadline for proposals is 09.09.2025
Please send a brief proposal, no more than 1,000 words, to Public Health Wales: HI-Programme.Support@wales.nhs.uk telling us about:
- Your creative practice and any experience particularly relevant to this commission.
- Your creative idea, including how it will inspire others to take action that supports their wellbeing, how you plan to make your idea digitally available, and list any collaborators who may assist in the technical elements.
- Please include an up-to-date CV with your proposal.
Please also send a short (max 2 minutes) video of yourself presenting your creative idea. This will help us to get a sense of your style and approach. We do not expect a professionally produced video for the proposal. The video will need to be sent using NHS Wales Secure File Sharing Portal, which enables sharing of files up to 20GB. The platform works best using Firefox.
You will need to email HI-Programme.Support@wales.nhs.uk to request a link which will allow you to upload your file to the secure portal.