Groundbreaking new partnership with Spotlight announced

We are extremely proud to announce that we have partnered with Spotlight, the leading casting organisation in the UK, to provide mental health and wellbeing support to members.

This partnership will see us become the provider of Spotlight’s Membership Assistance Programme and means that over 74,000 performers will now have free access to our range of services including counselling, coaching, legal, financial and practical advice, workshops, talks, and events, and much more.

Adam Bambrough, CEO of Wellbeing in the Arts, said ‘We are delighted to have agreed this groundbreaking partnership with Spotlight. There is a mental health crisis across the creative industries, and so many people, whether they are in work or not, are in need of help. Our mission has always been to help improve the mental health and wellbeing of our industry, and this partnership is a huge step in the right direction’.

‘Spotlight is passionate about our role in supporting sustainable careers for professional performers through the services we provide, and are thrilled to see that passion and commitment matched by the team at Wellbeing in the Arts’, said Matt Hood, Managing Director of Spotlight.

‘We consider the wellbeing and health of performers to be vital to their ability to fully reach their potential and is the reason this partnership is so important.

Our partnership will provide capacity for individual support for performers, as well as enabling Spotlight and Wellbeing in the Arts to work together to address the fundamental challenges of mental health and wellbeing in our sector’.

Actor, Nicholas Pinnock, Ambassador at Wellbeing in the Arts, said ‘I’m so pleased that we are joining forces with Spotlight. It’s such a great leap in giving access to – and opening up the conversation of – mental health to tens of thousands of actors and creatives who are in great need of help.

Our aim is to reach as many Spotlight members as we can so they know there’s a safe space for them to come if they’re struggling, should they feel the need. And if not for themselves, they can point others in need in our direction.

This is another step of many in providing much needed care that our creative community has long since been needing safe and easy access to…’.

If you are a Spotlight member and would like to access the support available, you can either log into your Spotlight account and follow the instructions there or contact us directly via email at support@wellbeinginthearts.org.uk, telephone on 0330 123 5574 or What’sApp / text message on 07496 896 436.