Creative Partnerships and Creative Futures Cumbria

Creative Partnerships

Creative Partnerships is a program which brings together creative workers, from scientists to artists, to help work with and inspire younger generations to be more creative. Since 2002 this program has worked in more than 8000 projects across the united kingdom. Worked with more than 90,000 teachers and over 1 million children in that time as well. The schools they have worked with have had improved Ofsted reports, and according to their latest report 'Learning: creative approaches that raise standards'. Being creative improves confidence and helps pupils become more motivated.

Creative partnerships have two offices, one in Newcastle and a main one in London. The London address is below;

 

34 Bow Street

London

WC2E 7DL

Tel: 0844 811 2145

registered charity (No: 1125841)

company (No: 06600739)

Email: cceenquiries@cceengland.org

However for general enquiries you can contact the Newcastle Office;

Creativity, Culture and Education

Great North House

Sandyford Road

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE1 8ND

registered charity (No: 1125841)

company (No: 06600739)

Tel: +44 (0) 844 811 2145

Fax: +44 (0) 191 229 2740

Email: enquiries@cceengland.org

Creative Futures

Creative futures Cumbria was started in April 2008 when the Cumbria Arts in education became the lead organisation for creative partnerships in cumbria. Cumbria arts in education was established in 1992 as a charity to promote creativeness in education. Creative futures aims to foucs creativty on family learning but also to explore more cultural arts. They were formed to inspire children and get them ready for the future creativly. 

Creative futures is based in Penrith. Their contact details are below;

1b Hobson Court

Penrith 40 Business Park

Gillan Way

Penrith CA11 9GQ

tel. 01768 893810

fax. 01768 840265

email : info@creativefuturescumbria.org

Funding 

The organisations are funded by The Arts Council, creative futures receives about £47,000 a year from the arts council (http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/rfo/creative-futures-cumbria/). However because of the recent spending review fundings for both organisations is to be cut back. Funding for Creative partnerships is said to be reduced by 50% in the next couple of years. AS they are both charity based programs, funding can also come from sponsors and teh general public.

A case study

A few schools took part in Creative futures, one such school was North Lakes School in Penrith. Catherine Wheeler partnered with Karen McDougall and the project for the school was to create Large 3D keys using different mediums. These keys were then left up as a display. The project allowed pupils to improve both artistically and socially. She goes on to say that because they took smaller groups into the sessions, it gave them a chance to review and improve what they were doing, as to keep making it better for the students. Not only does it encourage confidence in the students, but also in the teachers. Catherine stated that 'I felt very relaxed in delivering the games, this time to 60 children, and I realised at this point that my confidence levels had increased'.