Earlier this year, The Mighty Creatives was invited to join Arts Council England’s National Portfolio. Starting in April 2012, we will be working as a Bridge Organisation, providing support for their Goal 5: “Every child and young person has the opportunity to experience the richness of the arts”. Our aim will be to help build more coherent and consistent opportunities for children and young people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to access the arts in every corner of the East Midlands.
We will be working with our partners Arts Learning East Midlands to devise and deliver this important role. Initial activity will start in 2011 with briefing events to talk about what the Bridge will do and to learn about the opportunities and challenges facing the region’s arts sector. This will be followed by an audit of existing arts activity for children and young people in January/February 2012, and the start of the Bridge itself on 1st April.
Arts Council England has produced a briefing paper about the Bridge Organisations nationally. You can download it here.
Running alongside these activities, The Mighty Creatives has a number of other important jobs to do:
1. Creative Partnerships has been a world-leading programme and we need to find out more about its impact and create a lasting legacy for its achievements. We’ll be working with our many partners in the Autumn to ask the all-important question: where will support for the next creative generation come from?
2. As a result of Creative Partnerships closing, The Mighty Creatives won’t be as big as we have been, and much loved team members will be leaving the organisation before the end of the financial year. We are currently managing a careful transition process that will determine the future shape of the organisation. We will have completed this process by 31 March 2012.
3. We are launching a rich portfolio of new creative activities for children and young people in keeping with our business plan, Planet TMC. Activities include The Bank of TMC, In-work and In-volve, MyWorld and our new Learning Service. You can read about developments elsewhere on this blog and our company website. We would love to hear from any partners interested in working with us, regionally, nationally and internationally. Connect here.
I’ll post more updates here about the development of The Mighty Creatives over the next few months. In the meantime, don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.
Richard Clark, chief executive, The Mighty Creatives.
Thanks for the update Richard. Change is one of those weird ones where its both scary and exciting all at the same time. I've no doubt though that TMC will continue to change young peoples lives for many years to come, just as it has on the Creative Partnerships programme. Good luck with everything.
ReplyDeleteLikewise appreciate the update Richard. Have just completed the ccskills survey and think in terms of lasting legacy there is work to be done now for the generation of creative practitioners who are just entering this arena and wondering how they develop their skills and opportunities. Similarly, schools, who have understood what creative interventions can do, will also need support to continue their journeys.
ReplyDelete"Transition" - I think will be the word of the year for all of us! The creative partnerships programme has had an impact, and in some places a much needed one, and think all at TMC past, present and future can be proud of the contributions they have made. Best wishes to all.
thanks. useful update. An important question will be 'how to keep up the momentum created in the last couple of years going until the 'Bridge' starts in April'. Perhaps we could launch this phase as 'Not A Bridge Too Far'.
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