We work closely with a range of cultural organisations and schools to develop Local Cultural Education Partnerships (LCEPs). LCEPs are a response to the Arts Council England’s Cultural Education Challenge, which asks arts & cultural organisations, educational institutions and local authorities to make a difference for children and young people locally. By coming together partnerships can improve the cultural offer locally, share resources, increase investment and be champions for the delivery of cultural education.
The Mighty Creatives has invested over £1million in partnerships across the East Midlands between 2018 and 2022.
Our partnership investment programmes included:
Cultural Life Fund: the funding programme through which LCEPs and other investment programmes (e.g. Derby Virtual Arts School) have been funded. It has had four rounds, and an additional round of CEP funding.
START: a specific investment in a partnership originally hosted by Children and the Arts.
Sector Support Commission, renamed Creative Communities Fund, has provided smaller grants, often to smaller arts and cultural (A&C) organisations, including for covid-specific projects.
Youth Cultural Life Fund later renamed as Young Empowerment Fund: small grants made to individual young people. These funds have been considered by TMC as part of the Sector Support Commissions/ Creative Communities Fund.
We commissioned World Pencil to research and evaluate the reach and impact of our partnership investment during this period.
You can download a summary of the report, alongside the full evaluation report, below.
Drawing on our experience and learning of supporting LCEPs in the East Midlands we have also developed our Partnership Framework. This framework is intended for use by cultural education partnerships, including but not limited to recognised ‘Cultural Education Partnerships’ (CEPs) established in response to Arts Council England’s 2015 Cultural Education Challenge.
The framework draws principally on findings from an evaluation of The Mighty Creative’s Partnership Investments, 2018-22, including surveys and interviews with investment partners. It also draws on World Pencil’s experience of working with cultural education partnerships across England.
Please complete the form below to download the Partnership Framework.
We also want to show the impact we are making through our programmes and projects. The Collective Outcomes Tool aims to gather data from art organisations about their work with schools. This data will be aggregated to produce impact statements about cultural education activity across the East Midlands. Read more about the Tool’s origins here.
Collective Outcomes Tool246.55 KBWorking with partners across the region we collect data through the Collective Outcome Tool. This is a simple tool for gathering data from art organisations about their work with schools. We use the data to produce reports about cultural education activity across the East Midlands.
Collective Outcomes Tool Report: Collective Outcomes Tool Report: The Collective Outcome Tool was commissioned The Mighty Creatives and designed by Shared Intelligence, and the arts organisations who were kindly involved in a pilot to test it in the Summer school term of 2016.
