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Who We Are
- History The establishment of Curious Minds as an independant Company Limited by Guarantee and Registered Charity.
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What We Do
- Arts Award A national qualification that supports young people to develop as artists and arts leaders.
- Big Art The Channel 4 Big Art Project aimed to inspire communities and create a unique peice of public art in Burnley.
- Creative Partnerships The flagship creative learning programme designed to raise the aspirations, achievements and skills of children and young people.
- Find your talent The pilot cultural offer programme that ensures young people have access to the wide range of cultural experiences they deserve.
- Building Schools for the Future Supporting schools on ambitious programmes of change founded on creative teaching and learning.
- Curious Project 6 Engaging young people in the regeneration & renewal of their community
- Prevent An innovative project that explores what extremism and the Prevent agenda means to young people and their schools.
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Resources
- Case Studies An online database of case studies from the Curious Minds’ programmes.
- Logo downloads Download funding logos related to Curious Minds and the programmes that are delivered.
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Community & Ideas
- Register Register to access the private resources, receive the e-newsletter and join the community forums.
- Forum Join in with discussions that are important to you to get your voice heard.
- Blog Read the blog from the Chief Executive of Curious Minds, Chris May.
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Contact
- Staff Meet the team who work for Curious Minds.
- Board of Trustees Find out who’s who on our Board of Trustees
- Map and Directions Access the map and directions to our offices in Burnley and Liverpool.
- Work With Us Find out how to get involved if you are interested in working for 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.



