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- Staff Meet the team who work for Curious Minds.
- Blog Read the blog from the staff and colleagues of Curious Minds
- Contact Contact us at our offices in Burnley
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- Board of Trustees Find out who’s who on our Board of Trustees
- History The establishment of Curious Minds as an independent Company Limited by Guarantee and Registered Charity.
Find out about Curious Minds, our vision, mission, values and ethos.
What We Do
- Bridge Organisation Connecting young people with great arts and culture
- Information, communication and advocacy a more joined up approach, streamlining information and championing innovative methods of communicating information.
- Engagement looking at issues around access and inclusion and sharing great models already working on the ground.
- Bridge Development Groups Bridge Development Groups
- Achievement & Arts Award all young people do have genuine access to progression and talent development opportunities
- Quality and Artsmark providing quality experiences for children and young people and encouraging schools and other education settings to work in partnership with quality arts organisations and practitioners.
- Arts Award A national qualification that supports young people to develop as artists and arts leaders.
- Artsmark The national programme that enables schools, further education colleges and youth justice settings to evaluate, celebrate and strengthen a quality arts offer.
- Funding Advice support for grassroots organisations who use the arts to work with children and young people
- Action Learning Curious Minds are hosting Action Learning sets delivered by experienced facilitators in each of the North West sub-regions
- Services for Schools Curious Minds offer for schools for the 2011-12 academic year and more
- Membership Network Curious Minds Schools Membership Network
- Previous Projects and Programmes An overview of the programmes, projects and activities delivered by Curious Minds in the past.
- The highlights of fantastic work carried out for, by and with children and young people during 2012 in the North West The highlights of fantastic work carried out for, by and with children and young people during 2012 in the North West
An overview of the programmes, projects and activities delivered by Curious Minds.
Resources
- State of the Region - North West exploring the needs, barriers and potential in connecting children and young people, schools and communities with arts and culture
- Sources of Funding This resource lists some of the main sources of funding for work with children and young people in the UK.
- Creative Learning and the New OFSTED Framework how and why creativity is still very much at the heart of the new OFSTED framework
- Developing Different Voices - Publication celebrate the range and diversity of Creative Partnerships work that took place in schools with a special educational needs focus.
- Our Impact Curious Minds' impact in schools
- Case Studies An online database of case studies from the Curious Minds’ programmes.
- Safeguarding Policy Download Curious Minds Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct
- Videos and Films
- E-bulletin Archive Here we list the e-bulletins we have sent out to our stakeholders in the past.
- Logo downloads Download funding logos related to Curious Minds and the programmes that are delivered.
- Fishing for the Future - Publication ‘How do we maximise and sustain future leadership capacity in our schools?’
An overview of the resources available within the Curious Minds’ website.
Curious Stories Curious Stories from Curious Minds on sale now
Curious Minds and Sector News
News archive from the last 12 months

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Previous Projects and Programmes

Curious Minds delivers high quality programmes concerned with education and learning, regeneration and cohesion, and the development of social and emotional well being. Below are examples of our previous work.

Previous Projects, Programmes and Activities

Big Art Project

The Big Art Project 'Invisible', in Burnley demonstrated how young people can respond to complex challenges when they are given the opportunity to act as leaders and take genuine ownership of decision-making processes.

BLAZE

Blaze is working with young people from across Lancashire, Blackpool and the Fylde Coast to create a vibrant programme of work each summer within the context of the theme of tracks and trails; linking art and sport, people and places, physical and digital spaces

Building Schools for the Future

Building Schools for the Future (BSF) was the most ambitious school building scheme of its kind in the world and without precedent in terms of sheer scale. Curious Minds is curently working in Liverpool and Knowsley with BSF.

Creative Partnerships

Creative Partnerships is Englands flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the skills of children and young people across England, raising their aspirations, achievements, skills and life chances. Read more...

Find Your Talent and the Cultural Offer

Curious Minds works with local authorities in the North West to develop the Find Your Talent programme. Learn more here

Prevent

Curious Minds have been working with schools to explore what extremism and the Prevent agenda means to them. Find out more...

Curious Project 6

Curious Minds together with Regenerate Pennine Lancashire and Lancashire County Council have been developing a project designed to explore the means by which young people in Pennine Lancashire can develop increased and meaningful involvement in regeneration through involvement in creative projects. The website for this project was launched in April 2010. Visit Curious Project 6

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Curious Minds believes it is the right of all people to realise their creative potential. We build collaborative partnerships to bring about positive personal and social change through the development of curiosity, creativity and learning.