Arts Education & Creative Development Agencies
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 5x5x5=creativity An independent, arts-based action research organisation which supports children in their exploration and expression of ideas, helping them develop creative skills for life. |
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Access Art Award-winning AccessArt is a UK registered charity which creates unique, visual arts educational resources aimed at all ages and abilities. Teachers, workshop leaders, students and home users can access online workshops, PDFs, and a user forum, focusing upon drawing, sculpture, installation art and photography. |
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Amabadelo AMABADELO is creating projects where different artists of different art forms collaborate together (so far: dance, film, music, visual arts, costume design) in different community contexts. |
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Arts Education Partnership - USA A national coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic and government organizations that demonstrate and promote the essential role of the arts in the learning and development of every child and in the improvement of America's schools. |
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Aspire Trust The Aspire Trust was set up in 2002 to provide the best in lifelong learning and achievement opportunities for the children and families of Wallasey and their communities. |
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Arts in Warwickshire Education Arts in Warwickshire Education is a Warwickshire County Council team promoting innovative educational partnerships between artists / arts organisations, schools and their communities. |
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All About Manchester We are a membership organisation who acts as a central point of contact for the local arts community as well as an important research and intelligence resource. |
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Artists in Schools - Bolton, Bury, Rochdale AiS inspires learning and supports change by bringing together arts practitioners, school staff and children and young people as communities of learners. We develop high quality creative experiences both within arts subjects and using the arts as a vehicle for learning across and beyond the curriculum. |
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Artsmad Artsmad is using the arts to make a difference to the lives of young people in Swindon. Whether you're involved in education in Swindon, or you're an artist or a young person, this site has plenty of resources, opportunities, guidance and news. |
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Artis Education - Pioneering Creative Learning Our holistic approach to performing arts has been specially devised to stimulate imaginative thought and creativity within the primary school environment. |
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Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination (CCI) is an artist led initiative. Founded by a group of Cambridge professionals with a range of backgrounds in the arts, museums, drama and education, we have a common interest in fostering the curiosity and imagination of young and old, and we work to develop the innate creativity of every individual. |
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Barefoot Barefoot is the Arts Education Partnership Agency for Plymouth, linking schools and artists and promoting arts education work of all kinds. |
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Create Create is a dynamic charity that uses the creative arts to help transform the lives of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in our society. |
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Creative Learning Agency The Creative Learning Agency (CLA) is a news and information service to provide educators and artists with information and support for arts education work, covering the south west areas. |
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Creative Partnerships Creative Partnerships works to give school children in disadvantaged areas throughout England the opportunity to develop their creativity and imagination through sustainable partnerships with creative and cultural organisations, businesses and individuals. |
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Creative Partnerships - A New Direction - London A New Direction is an independent not for profit organisation, which advocates for and facilitates creative learning, by connecting young people and schools with creative practitioners and organisations. |
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Creative Partnerships - Black Country (BCCSIP) Black Country Creative Partnerships is managed by the Black Country Children's Services Improvement Partnership (BCCSIP). We work with schools from the four Black Country local authorities: Wolverhampton, Walsall, Sandwell and Dudley as well as Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire. In 2008/9 Creative Partnerships will be working from a ational framework, applied consistently across the country. |
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Creative Partnerships - Bright Space - Birmingham, Herefordshire and Worcestershire The aim of Bright Space is to improve the life chances of children and young people through the development of their creative skills and their engagement in arts and cultural activities. |
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Creative Partnerships - CapeUK South Yorkshire (Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham) Creative Partnerships in South Yorkshire is delivered by CapeUK. Our aim is to bring children, young people and adults together to stimulate imaginative thinking about learning, living and leading creatively. |
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Creative Partnerships - CapeUK West Yorkshire (Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, Calderdale, Kirklees) CapeUK is an independent research and development agency focusing on creativity and learning. We work with partners to explore and develop innovative approaches to teaching and learning which prepare children and young people for the challenges of a rapidly changing world. We have three main aims - to develop the creative potential and capacities of young people, to transform teaching and learning by placing creativity at the heart of the curriculum, and to develop approaches to leadership and management which support creativity. |
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Creative Partnerships - Centre for Urban Education The Centre for Urban Education (CUE) works with children, young people and their families, and the professionals concerned with their education and care, in urban contexts in Greater Manchester, the North West of England and internationally. |
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Creative Partnerships - Cre8us - Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Bettering the creative and cultural learning experience for young people across the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire sub-region. Cre8us is the new area organisation delivering the Creative Partnerships programme across Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire. Established in September 2008, Cre8us promotes and facilitates creative teaching and learning, aiming to help fully realise the huge potential of children and young people through the development of their creative skills and abilities. |
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Creative Partnerships - Creative Futures Cumbria Creative Futures Cumbria was formed in April 2008, when Cumbria Arts in Education became the host organisation for Creative Partnerships Cumbria. Creative Futures Cumbria works with creative professionals, including artists, scientists, architects, chefs and web designers, promoting the capacity of the creative and cultural sectors to work within education and across the community to put creativity at the heart of learning. |
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Creative Partnerships - Creative Junction - Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes Creative Junction aims to be a point at which ideas come together, explosions occur and new turns are taken. We build partnerships with and for young people, to develop creativity and to connect powerful, innovative learning across sectors. We are a new organisation working in the South East, using the knowledge and expertise gained from delivering Creative Partnerships since 2002, and building on the solid foundations of many years’ leadership experience in education and creative practice. |
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Creative Partnerships - Curious Minds - Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool Curious Minds is the area delivery organisation for Creative Partnerships across Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Merseyside, Halton and West Cheshire and has grown out of the experience of delivering the Creative Partnerships Lancashire and Creative Partnerships Merseyside programme since 2003. |
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Creative Partnerships - Curious Minds - Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral, West Cheshire, Halton Curious Minds is the area delivery organisation for Creative Partnerships across Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Merseyside, Halton and West Cheshire and has grown out of the experience of delivering the Creative Partnerships Lancashire and Creative Partnerships Merseyside programme since 2003. |
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Creative Partnerships - Dance City Creative Partnerships (Tees Valley) Creative Partnerships Tees Valley is situated in a strongly urban and industrialised setting covering five local authorities - Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool, Redcar & Cleveland and Darlington. |
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Creative Partnerships Durham, Sunderland, University of Sunderland Creative Partnerships Durham Sunderland operates over a large geographical area, covering urban and rural schools. |
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Creative Partnerships - Future Creative, Kent Future Creative is a new social enterprise company lead by Creative Director, Esme Chilton and a team of experienced and knowledgeable staff. Since 2002 this team has created and delivered the highly successful Creative Partnerships Kent programme and together they are now building upon their excellent track record to develop a robust new organisation designed to develop, manage and deliver a range of innovative creative learning programmes including the new national Creative Partnerships programme. |
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Creative Partnerships Haven Gateway Creative Partnerships Haven Gateway is here to make a difference. It inspires young people, the teaching profession and the arts community to work together innovatively to raise aspirations, nurture imagination and develop thinking skills. |
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Creative Partnerships - Norfolk and Norwich Festival Creative Partnerships Norfolk is delivered by Norfolk & Norwich Festival, in collaboration with the Norfolk County Council Children Services. For the past two years Norfolk & Norwich Festival has successfully delivered Creative Partnerships in Great Yarmouth. |
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Creative Partnerships Hull, Humber & North Yorkshire Creative Partnerships Hull - raising aspirations and achievement through the transformative power of creative learning partnerships. Creative Partnerships Hull places children and young people at the heart of a dynamic, innovative and reflective learning process. This process seeks to raise aspirations, enhance creativity, develop imagination and realise potential. By listening and responding to the pupil voice our creative learning programme enables children and young people, school staff and creative professionals to learn together as if for the first time. |
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Creative Partnerships Northumberland, Newcastle & Gateshead Creative Partnerships Northumberland is a catalyst for 'blue sky' thinking in education. Fostering long term partnerships which stimulate bold new ways of working, striving to bring teachers, families and creatives together, and equipping them with the resources to enthral and inspire young people - making schools fun and exciting places to be. |
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Creative Partnerships - Partners in Creative Learning Home to around 240,000 people, Stoke-on-Trent has developed significantly in a short time. In 80 years the City has grown from six towns to become a modern urban centre. Stoke has a strong identity, grounded in its industrial legacy, its long-established distinctive local communities, and the tradition of creativity that grew from its world famous ceramics industry. |
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Creative Partnerships - Royal Opera House Managed by the Royal Opera House since October 2008, Creative Partnerships in the Thames Gateway is working with over 100 schools across the region to deliver innovative, long-term partnerships between schools and creative professionals. |
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Creative Partnerships - RIO - Forest of Dean, Bristol, Cornwall & Plymouth We are a pioneering organisation which provides programmes, products and services that help young people around the world realise their potential. All of our work has economic, social and environmental goals - we invest all our profits back into developing our work with young people; providing them with the opportunity and support to make change happen using their own ideas, energy and ability. |
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Creative Partnerships Southampton, Portsmouth and Hampshire Creative Partnerships Southampton, Portsmouth and Hampshire are working with 42 educational establishments across Southampton, Portsmouth and south Hampshire. These include primary and secondary schools, two Pupil Referral Units (PRU), a special school, an Early Years Centre and a Youth Offending Team. |
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Creative Partnerships, Sussex and Surrey Creative Partnerships, Sussex and Surrey has expanded its programme into Brighton and Hove, West Sussex and Surrey. We are working with 22 Change Schools in East Sussex, 15 Enquiry Schools in West Sussex, 20 Enquiry Schools in Surrey and we have just recruited another 12 Enquiry Schools in East Sussex. All areas are in different stages of their projects with some planning for their projects whilst others are evaluating at the end of their projects. |
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Creative Partnerships - The Customs House Arts Centre - North & South Tyneside The Customs House Arts Centre is an independent arts trust based in South Shields on the bank on the River Tyne. It houses two theatre spaces which accommodates film & cinema together with The Sandford Goudie Gallery. |
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Creative Partnerships - The Mighty Creatives Named by and run with children and young people, TMC is a new charity responsible for championing young people’s creativity across the East Midlands. Our vision is to help every child and young person in the region develop their creativity to make a positive impact on their lives, and the lives of others. |
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Creative Partnerships - The UK Centre for Carnival Arts - Luton and Bedford The UK Centre for Carnival Arts (UKCCA) is a unique, pioneering arts centre that has recently opened in Luton. Carnival offers an unrivalled wealth of possibilities for participation, learning, enjoyment, and both personal and community growth and development. |
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DAISI Daisi brings professional artists and creative practitioners to work alongside young people. Our vision is for artistic and cultural experience to be at the heart of young people’s lives and learning. |
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DepARTure Arts DepARTure is the county council's arts-in-education agency, based in the Pupil and School Improvement section of Children's Services. DepARTure is a partner of the South West Arts Education Partnership. |
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Imaginate Imaginate is an arts agency committed to promoting and developing workshops for teachers and performing arts for children in Scotland including Britain's biggest performing arts festival for children & young people. |
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Giant Productions Our vision is to enable any child under 12 years to engage in a creative life by accessing high quality collaborative art form experiences. |
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Family Friendly A what's on listings website for kids and families in Greater Manchester. |
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Family Friendly Merseyside A what's on listings website for kids and families in Merseyside. |
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Foundation for Community Dance The Foundation for Community Dance is the national development agency for community dance in the UK. It supports the professional development of those working in community dance |
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GLOSS Arts Education Agency Welcome to Gloss Arts Education Agency, we are part of the South West Arts Partnership. Gloss Arts Education Agency is an Arts Council and Gloucestershire County Council funded initiative offering information, advice, guidance and brokerage between the arts and the education sector. |
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Integrate Education Services and educational resources to support your classroom teaching |
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KEAP - Kernow Education Arts Partnership KEAP is an arts education partnership with a mission to engage the whole community in creative learning through the Arts. |
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Lanternhouse International Lanternhouse is a building, a company, a remarkable network of artists and collaborators. It is an ethos of celebratory, participative arts and performance, led by need, by social context and created in dialogue with communities and audiences. Our work creatively explores the poetics of ordinary life and the paradoxes of contemporary culture |
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Music House for Children Specialists in quality music education. |
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Music and the Deaf Can you imagine a world without music? Around 9 million people in the UK - one in seven of the population - are deaf yet they can, and do, enjoy music. Music and the Deaf is a unique charity that brings music and the performing arts to deaf people and those who live and work with them. |
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Make Believe Arts MakeBelieve Arts believes that children are entitled to a high quality creative education. Through our understanding of progressive educational philosophy we aim to create innovative theatre programmes that develop the creative potential of all children. |
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Reseo - European Network for Opera in Education Founded in 1996, RESEO is the umbrella organisation for those working in opera and dance education. |
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Sightlines Initiative Sightlines promotes the growth of children's creative potential through innovative projects, reflective practice, professional networking between artists and educators, advocacy, training and support. Sightlines is also the UK reference point for the Reggio Children Network |
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Starcatchers Starcatchers is North Edinburgh Arts Centre's pioneering theatre project for 0-3s. View the Starcatchers Conference 2011 - http://vimeo.com/user6724872/videos |
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Sticky Fingers Early Years Arts Sticky Fingers Early Years Arts provides and promotes creative learning opportunities for pre-school children (0 to 5 years), their parents, teachers and carers and to introduce and sustain new ways in which creative and artistic programmes can be used to enhance young children's learning and development. |
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Somerset Partnerships Art Education Agency A non-profit organisation working across all art forms to develop creativity in young people and to create partnerships and share good practice in the wider field of arts education and creative learning. We help to raise the profile of the arts within education and enrich the learning experiences of young people. |
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Take Art Take Art is an arts development agency, created in 1987,which serves the towns, villages and rural areas of Somerset. |
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Take Art Start Promoting performance and participation in Somerset. Start is Take Art's service for early years and families. |
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The Forge - County Durham's Arts in Education Agency The Forge is a highly efficient, ambitious cultural organisation at the leading edge of participatory practice for children and young people. |
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WUK Arts for Young Children - Vienna WUK is a place for presentations of visual art, photography, cinematography and media art, theatre, dance, music, literature, political events and interdisciplinary art mediation. |
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WAVE Arts Education Agency WAVE Arts Education Agency provides a source for inspiration and creativity between the arts and education communities in Bournemouth and Poole. |
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WYAP - Wiltshire Youth Arts Partnership Wiltshire Youth Arts Partnership has been an active working partnership between Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury and West Wiltshire District Councils, Wiltshire County Council Youth Development Service and Arts Council England, South West for over six years. |
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