About ChalleNGe

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. 

 Our five goals focus on:

• Amplifying Young voices
• Shaping our Schools Programme - the Cultural Rucksack
• Building a Community of Practice across arts and education 
• Advocacy and Championing 
• 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. 

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.