Welcome to our 2019 Annual Review. We are proud to share some of our programmes, successes and achievements from the past year, and highlight some of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

Organisations come together to match £900,000 investment, totalling around £2 million investment in cultural education for young Londoners over the next 3 years

Book now if you are from a cultural organisation and want to develop your professional practice and embed change in cultural education (sessions run April - May 2017).

Highlights from the second day at ANDInclusive @ the Tate Exchange.

'It's big, it's round, it's posh!' - a student describes the Royal Albert Hall to a blindfolded contestant in the 'Culture Gameshow' at the launch of the Cultural Citizens Programme in London.

The Culture Gameshow hits the Barbican to kick-start new programme for young people in Barking and Dagenham.

The new Cultural Citizens Programme will provide new opportunities for young people in Barking and Dagenham.

The Catalyst Evolve funding will support our Create Jobs programme.

Our online platform, ANDtogether is now inviting organisations to profile their offer to schools, and teachers to browse for opportunities and partnership.

On Friday 08 May 2016, London welcomed Sadiq Khan as the new Mayor of London.

A New Direction secures £300,000 from Paul Hamlyn Foundation for ‘My Creative School’ programme

This week we launched a new campaign for schools to come together and take practical steps to improve the creative and cultural education offer for children and young people in receipt of Pupil Premium.

Arts Council England today urged all those working in the arts and education industries to work together in offering a consistent cultural education for all children and young people.

Cultural Education is a human right says Professor Maggie Atkinson, as she challenges mayoral candidates to address gaps between rich and poor

Young Londoners to benefit from Cultural Education Challenge as organisations pledge to double £700,000 of investment

We are looking for up to 10 young people aged 15-23 from across London to form the Young Challenge Group.

A New Direction is pleased to announce the appointment of our new Chair, the outgoing Children’s Commissioner for England, Professor Maggie Atkinson.

Steve Woodward introduces #ANDtogether – a prototype website to help London schools find information, discover opportunities and source arts & cultural organisations to work with.

Steve Woodward looks forward to becoming a Fellow of the Culture Hive Digital Marketing Academy, an online centre of excellence managed by the Arts Marketing Association.

A-levels and GCSEs in arts subjects in England, including music, drama, art and dance, are to be made more "rigorous and demanding".

As 'The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk' opens this week - we look forward to connecting up local young people into employment and training opportunities.

Children and families of East London... come on down to the Poetry Potting Shed at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on Sat 22 March, Sun 30 March, or 05 April (11am to 4pm).

Children who paint or play music are more likely to turn into successful business people with their own inventions when they grow up, according to new research. A summary of the past week in arts and education.

The Head of Admissions at Oxford University expresses 'widespread concern' about reforming GCSEs and A levels simultaneously.

Applications are now open for Young Film Academy’s BFI Film Academy Network, launching in Barking this November.

Parliament is throwing open its doors for the day on Sat 23 Nov as part of Parliament Week, to welcome you in to find out how you can get more engaged with issues that matter to you!

Leaders gather for Evening Standard school forum as study reveals pupils finish school with lower levels of literacy and numeracy than grandparents

Carol Ann Duffy today announces the first ever Young Poet Laureate for London at a reception event on National Poetry Day at the Houses of Parliament.

Communicating effectively with London schools is a tricky business – but how do we crack it? AND's Communications Associate, Steve Woodward wants to know

Listen to Spoke Co-ordinator, Claudia Barwell interviewed on BBC London Radio inviting young people (aged 18 - 25) to become the Young Poet Laureate for London.

Spoke is a new visionary poetry and spoken word programme that will offer people in East London an opportunity to watch, perform and develop careers in spoken word.

We would like to hear from like-minded cultural organisations with office space available, and ideally meeting and event space to share.

The recently appointed Director of the Museum of London, Sharon Ament, talks to us about the importance of reaching all schools in London.

A free School Resource for Teachers of Key Stage 2 years 5 & 6 produced by Art on the Underground in partnership with A New Direction.

Book now and join us at the British Library on Thursday 11 October 2012, 9.30 – 3.30pm for this free event offering lots of innovative and cost effective ways to maintain and develop cultural education in the face of policy and funding changes.

Introducing the first issue of our new free termly publication for London teachers - Schools AND Culture - look out for it in your pigeon hole!

The 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony has left all of us here at AND in a state of awe, after we tripped over the bridge and took our places in the stadium last night. Being local, and having worked closely with Graeae Theatre Company, this was a very special moment.

Follow our young social media journalists as they comment and report live from their city during London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Yesterday (Tues 17 July), young people from across the six Olympic host boroughs travelled to The Savoy's Lancaster Ballroom for the culmination of Ruth Ewan's project, Liberties of the Savoy, to create a unique event inspired by the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.