ChalleNGe Vision and Mission
Vision
Nottingham’s diverse population of children and young people are imaginative, innovative and creative; informing and inspiring cross-sector partnerships that champion creativity in schools and communities.
Mission
To facilitate and enable collaborations and connections to ensure all children and young people in Nottingham engage with relevant, inspiring and accessible arts and cultural experiences.
Child Friendly Creative City
Create, discover, imagine!
Our arts and education partners share a vision to amplify youth voices and co-create projects for more children and young people living in Nottingham:
We are focused on 5 key strands within this programme:
LOUD & CLEAR: Amplifying youth-voices & participation projects
i) Growing Connecting Notts and the Young Creatives Network - planning events, workshops and peer research with 14-25 year olds.
ii) increasing creativity and influence of Primary Parliament
iii) strengthening children’s participation in regular arts activities in community spaces, co-producing local art festivals & showcasing opportunities (ie. Bulwell Arts Festival, Clifton Arts Festival, Hoopla with City Arts, Shine Theatre with Playhouse, Summer programmes at Lakeside Arts, Young Creatives commissions, DYT spaces)
iv) developing Family Arts Explorers as an annual programme for first-time go and see experiences.
CULTURAL RUCKSACK: Expanding to home-schooled children, Alternative Provision, and secondary schools in the city. Harnessing the commitment of education settings to deliver a cultural guarantee.
CREATIVE TASKFORCE: Developing our Teaching for Creativity network, with. Creative Practitioners, Teachers and Access Specialists. Supporting the city’s Art of Belonging pledge for refugee children & families and Celebrating Languages projects to reflect local heritages and diversity.
NATURE CONNECTIONS: Developing a community of practice for arts-based nature projects - building on local forest school networks, UoN environmental research, Citizen science projects, & international links with other Child Friendly Cities & Cities of Literature.
CHILDREN’S FUND: Launching a new collective fundraising scheme for children and young people’s access to arts and culture to connect NPOs, venues and city organisations.
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Ways we collaborate
Communications
Evaluation and Learning
Evaluation and Learning
We want to make communications easy - so that teachers and headteachers are informed of opportunities from the cultural sector in a timely and coherent way.
Cultural partners can make use of the ChalleNGe website and e-newsletters to share news and project opportunities; and schools can celebrate their achievements, give feedback and help build a picture of creative learning for children and young people.
Youth and community organisations are also invited to share their experiences and opportunities and make connections with us to help broaden opportunities for all children and young people in the city.
We are developing our collaborative work with Nottingham's schools through the Cultural Rucksack; for schools to embed high quality arts experiences for every school pupil in the city.
Evaluation and Learning
Evaluation and Learning
Evaluation and Learning
Our goals focus on:
- Amplifying Young Voices and co-creation projects
- Shaping our Schools Programme - the Cultural Rucksack
- Strengthening Communities of Practice
- Championing our arts and community partners and the needs of children, young people and families
- Sustainability and organisational development
We aim to embed strong youth voice into our cultural landscape, so that children and young people are empowered to shape priorities and lead change within arts partners' programmes. As Child Friendly Nottingham champions, we promote a child-rights based approach to participation.
Our evaluation framework is formative and seeks to embrace common themes within our partners’ broad range of projects, resources and ambitions. We seek meaningful ways to evaluate and create open, collaborative spaces for reflection, sharing and learning.
ChalleNGe Steering Group Members
Nigel Cooke
Dr Colette Davies
Dr Colette Davies
Freelance Consultant, trustee of creative and educational charities and One Nottingham Board Member
Dr Colette Davies
Dr Colette Davies
Dr Colette Davies
KE & Impact Officer, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham
Ekua Ghansah
Prof Joanna McIntyre
Ekua Ghansah
Child Friendly City Programme Lead, Nottingham City Council
Prof Joanna McIntyre
Prof Joanna McIntyre
Prof Joanna McIntyre
Professor of Education,
Michelle Rensler
Amanda Spruyt
Amanda Spruyt
Head of Faculty for Media and Performing Arts Nottingham College