local partnerships – Curious Minds

December 4, 2024

Celebrating 4 Years of Let’s Craft

We're incredibly proud to have been involved in this excellent project over the last 4 years, through our local partnerships in Ellesmere Port, as well as elsewhere in Northern England. Let's Craft has been instrumental in dismantling barriers to creativity for children and young people through the hardest of times.

March 22, 2024

Active Listening

In 2022, Curious Minds worked with seven early career professionals under the Kickstart scheme as Creative Youth Voice Champions. In this short blog, one of these Champions, Faisal, looks back on his experiences and how he saw his work directly benefiting young people in Bolton.

March 10, 2021

March 10, 2021

Surging Forward in Sefton

At a time of austerity and constriction, Sefton’s Local Cultural Education Partnership (LCEP) is determined to maintain a high profile for its provision for the arts and creativity across its educational and community providers. Despite the new and additional challenges created by the pandemic, lockdown and school closures, their plans remain hopeful, challenging and ambitious.

February 24, 2021

Nurturing Creative Partnerships in Lockdown

Every challenge offers opportunity to grow. Head of Drama at Stockport Grammar School, Matt King-Sayce, seized this at the start of Lockdown#1 and has been working hard to develop new and existing cultural partnerships for his school through the last few months. Here he reflects on the positives inherent in pursuing partnerships.