Tender Opportunity: Creative Wellbeing for Children with Experience of Domestic Abuse

The Creative Health team are seeking an organisation to take over the delivery of our successful creative wellbeing programme for primary-aged children who have experienced domestic abuse.

Delivered as 10-week interventions taking place after-school for children aged 5-10 years old, the programme uses creative music, art and drama to improve participants’ wellbeing, confidence, emotional literacy and understanding of healthy relationships

This programme is for children who are no longer experiencing abuse. To take part, children must fall into one of the following two categories:

• If no longer residing with the alleged perpetrator, no abuse may have been experienced since the change in living circumstances, and at least for one month.
• If currently residing with the alleged perpetrator, the family must have engaged with statutory services (social care and/or social worker) to address abusive behaviour AND no abuse may have occurred in the previous six months.

Creative sessions are led by specially trained artist practitioners and creative arts therapists, and use creative activities to explore topics such as friendship, emotions, regulation and conflict resolution in fun, no-pressure ways.

Parent/carers are invited to stay for an informal session in the next room to meet other parents/carers, hear about what the children are up to, and receive information and signposting to available support. While siblings outside the programme’s age range are unable to join the main workshops, they are welcome to take part in creative activities in a nearby space.

Travel support, refreshments (during sessions) and dinner (eaten with others onsite or taken home if preferred) are provided.

This tender opportunity opens on Thursday 18 June 2026. If your organisation is interested in applying to deliver this programme during academic year 2026/27, please use the following documents to submit your response to CreativeHealth@croydon.gov.uk by 12pm (noon) on Thursday 9 July.