Blog

Researcher Sarah Davies introduces our new Powerful Partnerships Resource Library - a collection of case studies, practical tools and research exploring strategic partnerships.

Our Senior Partnerships Associate, Corinne Bass, reports back on the conversations and ideas that came out of three Cultural Education Challenge events

Our Partnerships Director gives us an insight on the recently launched Warwick cultural value report.

On October 27th we brought people from the cultural sector together to share our learning from Connected and talk about how we could move this agenda forward and ensure all parts of London, and all children and young people, can benefit.

Bridget McKenzie, co-ordinator of WHS Maritime Greenwich Learning Partnership, reflects on how joined up cultural work with schools can cultivate dispositions for placemaking and stewardship.

6 approaches to Cultural Education & 6 approaches to influencing regeneration.

The aim of The Collective is to build a dynamic strategic partnership to improve the cultural offer to preschool children in Lewisham; and a vital part of this is to support those working in early years.

Two key findings were highlighted at the Performing Places conference: the importance of schools and geographic mobility for young people.

Kate Kelly, Development Director at Creative Islington, talks about a new partnership to address a need for better information and communication across Islington’s arts and education sectors.

Pippa Joiner from Richmond upon Thames Arts Service shares her thoughts on their Connecting Culture project to date and the benefits and challenges of building relationships with ‘virtual heads’ in their work with Children Looked After. 

Pippa Joiner from Richmond upon Thames Arts Service shares her thoughts on building partnerships with Children’s services and makes a case for cultural organisations to make provision for Children Looked After.

Through Connected London, Bruce Castle has sought to work with other youth organisations and arts providers in Tottenham to work together to identify and create quality cultural learning opportunities as well as a model of working with young people.

Yogesh Dattani, Head of Ealing Music Partnership, and participant in A New Direction’s Connected London programme, shares his thoughts on some developmental work that he has undertaken to embrace a more holistic approach to arts and culture for children and young people.

John McMahon explores how Innovation Unit’s Radical Efficiency approach has benefitted our Connected London places, and how the same thinking can be used more widely in cultural education.

The recent panel discussion ‘Society from the spectacle; the art of place-making’, chaired by Lyn Gardner at the start of the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival (GDIF) explored outdoor arts and the psycho-geography of place. 

Eliza Wilson, Head of Education at Stratford Circus in Newham and participant in AND’s Connected London programme, gives an insight into how partnership working can further the quality and equality of cultural education in the borough.