The Traveller Wellbeing through Creativity initiative is a call to relevant groups and organisations to deliver an innovative project in 2023 focused on enhancing Traveller wellbeing through the medium of creativity. 

Proposals are invited from Traveller organisations with experience of working with health/wellbeing and/or creative arts, and from other interested and experienced creative and cultural organisations and/or individuals. Traveller organisations applying for the Shared Island grant must be based in Northern Ireland or the UK or be working as a partnership between Traveller organisations based in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland or the UK.

The successful applicants will:

·       Demonstrate a track record of working effectively with Travellers to improve health and wellbeing;

·       Demonstrate experience of using creativity of any form – either traditional or contemporary – as a gateway to improved health and wellbeing for individuals and/or the community;

·       Promote working relationships between health, cultural bodies and the wider creative sector and Traveller organisations at local level that will enable sustainability;

·       Provide evidence of organisational capacity to deliver the initiative;

·       Outline a project delivery model, including project partners and proposed impacts and outcomes;

·       Indicate intended reach of the project and proposed numbers of Traveller participants.