Curious Minds

 

Curious Minds is a creative social enterprise based in the North West of England. We believe it is everyone's right to have the opportunity to realise their creative potential. We work to improve outcomes for children and young people by increasing opportunities for active participation in creative learning and cultural production.

We work in schools, principally through the Creative Partnerships programme, raising aspirations and attainment while enabling improvements in teaching and learning through developing rich partnerships between schools and creative practitioners.

We also work in a range of other settings with children and young people, improving opportunities for active participation in arts and culture while ensuring that children and young people have a genuine voice in the development and evaluation of activities designed to meet their needs.

We place a strong emphasis on workforce development across all our programmes and work to develop the capacity of the cultural sector to deliver excellence through  a varied programme of training and development. 

We hope that this website, as well as providing a wealth of information about Curious Minds’ work and ideas, will work as a platform for documenting work in progress and distance made on projects as well as a place where a range of creative discussions can take place across the cultural and educational community. We’ll be working hard to stimulate and facilitate those discussions and obviously your contribution will be vital. In short – the site will be as interesting as the dialogue between us all, so please contribute and share your thoughts, experiences and suggestions so we can build this creative and collaborative community.