Our work is driven by young Londoners. We help them navigate London’s extraordinary cultural opportunities to find new ways of being creative and becoming fulfilled. We are the key strategic body for connecting young Londoners with the city’s creative and cultural energy.
On 14 March, A New Direction will be taking a group of students from Stoke Newington School to Vancouver for a week to document and report on the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, via film and a range of social media channels.
A New Direction is seeking up to 15 organisations to deliver the 2010/11 'Olympic' themed Creative Partnerships Enquiry School Programme to 150 schools across London.
On Saturday 20 March 2010, our CREATE Programmers will be producing their first event at Newham Town Hall, with some exciting acts confirmed - find out more
We develop cross-sector partnership projects for the benefit of young people in London - click the tabs for more
The past year has been an exciting, challenging and thoroughly rewarding time for all involved in A New Direction.
An LSE research report - 'Pathways to Value' explores new ways of understanding and articulating the value of creativity, using field research and multimedia case study development as tools to evidence and encourage reflective practice across Creative Partnerships schools in London.
A report by Alice King-Farlow documenting the outcomes of six projects that explored how the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games might act as a stimulus to young people's creativity and how they could make their own personal connection to the Games and the changes it will bring to their area.