The AHRC Cultural Value Project (CVP) report acknowledges the value of the arts and culture to health, ageing and wellbeing, describing how: This dynamic field of research is characterised by a diverse range of subjects and approaches: from clinical outcomes to the effects in healthcare settings and community health; from physiological to mental health benefits; from targeted interventions to the effects of broader arts in health projects; from time-specific arts therapies to the effects of long-term arts engagement; from the acute to the preventative and, of course, health being seen not simply as the absence of illness or disease (p. 101). As part of the CVP, the Principal Investigator (PI) of the present project undertook research into the longitudinal association between arts and cultural engagement and health and wellbeing. This was referenced throughout the CVP report and informed one of its recommendations. As a direct consequence of this, the PI was enlisted as Researcher to an Inquiry instigated by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPGAHW). The APPGAHW Inquiry gave rise to a substantial report, which builds upon the CVP report to collate diverse evidence of the value of arts and cultural engagement to health and wellbeing across the life course. Launched in both Houses of Parliament in June 2017, the Inquiry report is aimed at the integration of arts approaches into the health and social care system. The Inquiry process identified a series of impediments to the widespread uptake of arts approaches within health and social care, which the present project seeks to overcome. The Inquiry also hosted an extensive series of discussions - involving parliamentarians, practitioners, service users and other stakeholders - which demonstrated a well-defined need for the widespread dissemination of research into the value of arts and culture to health and wellbeing. The present project will draw upon research conducted as part of the CVP and APPGAHW Inquiry to enhance acceptance, in policy and practice contexts, of the value of the arts and culture to health and wellbeing. The CVP report highlights the uneven character of the evidence base and argues for improved evaluation of arts and health projects using methods appropriate to the intervention and the knowledge sought. The present project will involve an exploration of forms of evidence appropriate to the field of arts and health, including those which challenge medical hierarchies. As part of this endeavour, discussions will be held with major funders in the field of arts and health, and the case will be made for the wider pursuit of appropriate mixed methods research. As its name suggests, this project entails a comprehensive programme of dissemination and advocacy. Policy-makers and decision-takers throughout the UK, including ministers, Members of Parliament and officials, will be presented with a range of evidence of the value of the arts and culture to health and wellbeing. Political, health and social care leaders will also be targeted in a bid to integrate the arts into mainstream health and social care commissioning. The PI will work with APPGAHW to present the most appropriate research-derived evidence to the leaders of NHS England and individual health trusts, clinical commissioning groups, local authorities, the Local Government Association and Public Health England. In a substantial and innovative part of this project, health and social care professionals (doctors, nurses, carers and technicians) will be approached with evidence of the value of culture to health and wellbeing. This will be done in a way that does not increase workloads, by intervening in major conferences. Passionate champions of the arts and health, including clinicians, practitioners and service users, will be invited to present arts and health work at relevant events, with the aim of overcoming a persistent lack of awareness of arts approaches.