Christina Peumalu

Christina Peumalu is a strategic, people-centred cultural leader with over a decade of experience delivering award-winning creative health and participation programmes across arts, health, and community sectors.

She is currently Head of Participation at CW+, the charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where she founded and leads the Arts for All programme. Under her leadership, Arts for All has grown into a large-scale, multi-artform initiative delivering thousands of creative sessions annually across hospitals, community spaces, and digital platforms, working with over 30 artists and 25 cultural partners. Her work integrates music, visual arts, dance, storytelling, and digital innovation to improve wellbeing and access to culture for diverse audiences.

Christina has led the development of the CW+ Studio, a dementia-friendly, accessible creative space embedded within a clinical environment. The CW+ Studio was co-designed with patients, clinicians, artists, and community partners and supports a wide range of creative activity for children, young people, outpatients, and local communities. Through this work, she has embedded co-production, intergenerational practice, and condition-specific engagement into hospital settings, using creativity to reduce isolation, support mental health, and improve experiences of care.

She has developed strategic partnerships with leading cultural organisations including the Saatchi Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, English National Ballet School, Royal College of Art, and City of Westminster College, and regularly contributes to sector learning through research partnerships, conferences, and publications.

Christina holds a Master’s in Art, Health and Wellbeing, a BA in Fine Art, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH). Her practice sits at the intersection of culture, care, and social change, with a particular focus on young people’s mental health, participation, and equitable access to the arts.