Awards

Southwest Yorkshire partnership Foundation NHS Trust 2024 Excellence awards. ‘Runner up: Living our values – Best partner excellence’: The Good Mood Football League, the Good Mood Sports steering group and Creative Minds. ‘Winner:  Living our values – social responsibility and sustainability excellence’ Creative Minds team

‘West Riding County FA Football Development Award’ at #CFARA24 for the Good Mood League 2024

Building Better Health Care Awards – ‘Patients Choice Special Award 2023’ for The Caring Garden, Fieldhead Hospital, Wakefield.

HSJ Partnership Awards 2022 “highly commended” ‘Best not for profit working in partnership with the NHS’ category.

Winner ‘Reimagining Community Health Challenge’ June 2022 (European award with £45000 award from Ashoka, which highlights work from leading social change agents in health and community settings.)

Disability Sports Yorkshire ‘organisation of the year’ in 2018.

Creative Minds won the ‘Best Collaborative Arts Project’ award at the Building Better Healthcare Awards 2015. 

Patient Experience Network National Awards (PENNA) 2015. Winner – ‘strengthening the foundation’ category. We were also runners-up in the ‘including social care to improve the experience’ and ‘partnership working to improve the experience’ categories. The annual Patient Experience Network National Awards recognise and celebrate the people in the healthcare industry who are leading the way by delivering excellent patient experience and care.

HSJ Awards 2014 – Winner ‘Compassionate Patient Care’.

The HSJ Awards are the largest celebration of healthcare excellence in the UK, highlighting the most innovative and successful people and projects in the sector. Judges said that the Creative Minds initiative took user-led services to a different level, hailing “the empowerment of service users that demonstrates personal and economic benefits for individuals, families and whole communities.” Read more about our award-win.