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    • About Us
      • About Us
      • Contact Us
      • ChalleNGe Team
      • Online Directories
    • For Teachers
      • Cultural Rucksack
      • Culturemeet recordings
      • CPD/events
      • Creative Practitioners
      • Creativity Collaboratives
      • Planning Visits
    • For Children/Young People
      • Activities and Groups
    • Partners
      • Partners
      • Case Studies
    • Our Work
      • Projects
      • Art of Belonging Pledge
      • RSE Day
      • Primary Parliament
      • Celebrating Languages
      • Family Arts Explorers
      • Blue Bell Hill Games
      • Youth Voice
      • Young Creative Awards
      • Creative Careers
ChalleNGe
Nottingham
  • Home
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • ChalleNGe Team
    • Online Directories
  • For Teachers
    • Cultural Rucksack
    • Culturemeet recordings
    • CPD/events
    • Creative Practitioners
    • Creativity Collaboratives
    • Planning Visits
  • For Children/Young People
    • Activities and Groups
  • Partners
    • Partners
    • Case Studies
  • Our Work
    • Projects
    • Art of Belonging Pledge
    • RSE Day
    • Primary Parliament
    • Celebrating Languages
    • Family Arts Explorers
    • Blue Bell Hill Games
    • Youth Voice
    • Young Creative Awards
    • Creative Careers

Welcome

ChalleNGe is Nottingham's city-wide partnership of arts, education and community organisations. We collaborate on programmes that make a difference to children and young people's lives - with a focus on arts, culture and creativity. 

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Families - creative activities

Families - creative activities

Families - creative activities

Children enjoying an arts festival

Discover organisations and groups that offer creative activities for children and young people in the city. Why not try something new? There are arts groups, dance classes, youth theatre and music opportunities all year around - to name but a few! 


Read the Summer Parent and Carers Newsletter to see a host of creative activities for children, young people and families! 

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Schools: Cultural Rucksack

Families - creative activities

Families - creative activities

Interested in bringing more creativity to your classroom, or wanting to develop new opportunities for your pupils? From  teacher events and CPD to long-term partnerships, ChalleNGe brings you regular updates and boosts your creative connections.   2025/2026 Wallplanner

Round-up of arts opportunities & network events: 

Primary newsletter and Secondary newsletter.

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Latest News & Opportunities

What's the Cultural Rucksack all about?

Building a Cultural Guarantee for pupils in Nottingham schools


Watch our Video Case study (click the red play button!)


Hear what children, teachers and arts providers have to say about their visits to Lakeside Arts, the Heritage Museum at University of Nottingham, Wollaton Hall and Papplewick Pumping Station, as part of our Cultural Guarantee Pilot programme (2023-2025). 


Many thanks to Arts Council England and the 10 schools who have taken their pupils to new places over the last two years and shared their experiences. 

Be a Creative Mentor with the Mighty Creatives

Freelance Opportunity, Deadline: 12 noon on Mon 27 October 2025. 


Creative Mentors work with children from age 5-25 to build a trusting relationship, introduce creative activities according to the child’s interest and facilitate inspiring experiences to support personal, social and emotional development and educational achievement. The pool of Creative Mentors has a range of arts and/or media skills, experience of leading creative learning and a positive, child-centred approach to working with children and young people on a one-to-one basis.


To find out more and apply : Apply to become a Creative Mentor | TMC 

Contact: recruitment@themightycreatives.com 

Arts Partners

Our partners bring ChalleNGe’s vision to life - from long-term partnerships with schools, free family arts programmes, targeted provision for young refugees, health and wellbeing programmes, and city-wide festivals. 

Art Partners - links

For Teachers:

Culturemeets online

A-Z Directory for schools

A-Z Directory for schools

We bring teachers and arts professionals together for termly online network meetings called CultureMeets. We begin with 5min presentations from arts organisations about their upcoming  exhibitions, workshops and resources before a themed discussion.  


See all past Culturemeets here. Contact hello@challengenottingham.co.uk if you are a teacher and want to book a 1:1 conversation.  


Book your place

A-Z Directory for schools

A-Z Directory for schools

A-Z Directory for schools

two pupils enjoying a poetry workshop

Nottingham's Cultural Rucksack encourages the development of high quality partnerships between arts, cultural and heritage providers and schools - embedding a range of rich and diverse experiences to bring your curriculum to life. 


Nottingham's schools are signing up to become 'Cultural Rucksack schools' - supporting their pupils to feel connected and valued by their city.  Find out more about becoming a CR school here.

Download A-Z Directory

Creativity Collaboratives

A-Z Directory for schools

Creativity Collaboratives

Nottingham's Creativity Collaboratives programme has involved 12 schools exploring and embedding approaches around 'Teaching for Creativity' over 3 years. Watch our Yr 3 FILM

  

Find out more about the Creative Practitioners and read our latest case studies.


See the Creativity Exchange website and Leading for Creative Thinking website for inspiration, links and resources.

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City-wide collaborative projects

Art of Belonging

Child Friendly Nottingham

Celebrating Languages

Art of Belonging is a city-wide programme that seeks to welcome refugees and asylum seekers in Nottingham. The Art of Belonging Pledge has now been signed by 14 arts organisations and we have a growing network of creative practitioners who are being supported to facilitate sessions with new arrivals. From partnership projects with NEST (the Nottingham Education Sanctuary team) and arts venues, to the Refugee Roots regular creative programme and collaborations with Nottingham Playhouse, NAE and more - there are many ways you can support this work and get involved. 

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Celebrating Languages

Child Friendly Nottingham

Celebrating Languages

We're delighted to be working in partnership with schools, communities, arts partners and our two Universities to celebrate our diverse languages and dialects in Nottingham. 


Thanks to funding from NTU, 8 partnership projects have been supported to explore new partnerships between arts organisations, schools and community groups to highlight and celebrate Languages within their work.


We are also excited to be the Community partner for a Co(l)laboratory and welcome Jack Benjamin as our PhD researcher. 

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Child Friendly Nottingham

Child Friendly Nottingham

Child Friendly Nottingham

Child Friendly Nottingham is a city-wide partnership programme to put children's rights into practice. Lots of organisations are supporting children and young people to have a meaningful say in local decisions, services and spaces. Training and resources from UNICEF are available for teams and organisations to get involved.  

Over 9000 children and young people collaborated to choose 3 'badges' (areas to focus on) which are: Safe and Secure; Education & Learning and Healthy. 'Equal and included is the golden thread, linking all our work together.  

Child Friendly Nottingham Website

RSE Day

Child Friendly Nottingham

Every year, we work in partnership with Catherine Kirk from Nottingham City Council on developing a collaborative schools project and resources to celebrate Relationship & Sex Education (RSE) Day. 


For 2025, the theme is 'Communicate' focusing on healthy, positive communication in relationships. Together we have commissioned artist Millie Yarwood to gather children and young people’s views and create a mural in the Arboretum. Millie has also run a creative CPD session for teachers.


Find out about the work of the  Achieve Well Team and get involved!

RSE Day Workshop 2025 

RSE day, past projects

Connecting Notts

Connecting Notts is our Youth Cultural Partnership that meets monthly to bring together representatives from ChalleNGe arts and community partners (16-26 year olds) to collaborate and engage the next generation of cultural leaders in the city. 


Facilitated by ChalleNGe and Upstart Projects (who also run Voice Mag) members of Connecting Notts plan events for a wider network of young people, to better connect, network and shape arts opportunities and professional development for young people.

Connecting Notts website

Bulwell Arts Festival

We believe that art opportunities should be on every child's doorstep, in neighbourhoods, schools and parks - as well as within the fabulous arts venues of our city.  


We work in close partnership with Bulwell Arts Festival (hosted by One Vision Partnership) and Bilborough Arts Festival - supporting local creative activities in community centres, schools and libraries in the run up to their annual Art festivals. 


Check out the 2025 brochures for both festivals! 


Bulwell Arts Festival 2025 Brochure

Bilborough Arts Festival 2025 Brochure

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