About Us
Our 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.
Our 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.
Our Aims
To work collaboratively with Nottingham’s cultural partners and educators to:
1. Deliver a cultural learning offer that is complementary, visible and accessible
2. Identify and address barriers to creation and participation by children, their families, educators, artists and arts organisations
3. Take risks, share challenges and celebrate the exemplary
Our Guiding Principles
Our partnership aims to be inspiring, resourceful, collaborative, opportunistic, imaginative, innovative and bold.
We facilitate the partnerships between cultural organisations, schools and youth providers - we are open, inventive, diverse and welcoming.
Discover more on our new Cultural Rucksack initiative for every school-aged child in Nottingham.
Our Work
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 four goals focus on:
- reaching more and different children and young people;
- improving access to cultural education;
- evaluation, building capacity and doing things differently;
- resilience, sustainability and the future.
Developing a shared understanding of the experiences of children and young people and ensuring that their voices are heard and appreciated is at the heart of our ethos.
Our evaluation framework is formative and seeks to embrace the complexity within our partners’ broad range of motivations, levels of engagement, scale of work and ambition. It seeks to find meaning, tell stories, challenge the status-quo and understand better ways of doing things – being open, collaborative and providing space for reflection, sharing and learning.
Quick Links
Evaluation and Learning
Quick Links
The Arts Council : Inspiring and funding Cultural Education Partnerships, ACE have recently launched their new 10 year strategy. Between 2018 and 2022, they will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery, in artistic and cultural experiences that enrich peoples' lives.
Cultural Learning Alliance: championing a right to art and culture for every child - making the case for arts engagement.
The Mighty Creatives: fuelling creativity for children and young people across the East Midlands.
Arts Mark: the creative quality standard for schools, accredited by Arts Council England.
Arts Award: inspiring young people to grow their arts and leadership talents.
ChalleNGe Steering Group Members
Nigel Cook - Chair
Nigel Cook - Chair
Nigel Cook - Chair
Freelance Consultant, trustee of creative and educational charities and One Nottingham Board Member
Barbara Matthews
Nigel Cook - Chair
Nigel Cook - Chair
Executive Dean - Culture
Amanda Spruyt
Paul Roberts OBE
Paul Roberts OBE
Manager of Learning Programmes Nottingham Contemporary
Chris Hall
Karla Capstick
Karla Capstick
Member of the Education Partnership Board and Professor at University of Nottingham