It’s two days before Christmas and just before I finish for the year let me welcome you to this new feature within the Curious Minds website. I hope to develop the discipline of sharing thoughts and ideas with you on a regular basis and would like to think that we might generate interesting discussions between us from time to time on a number of issues that interest us all. For the first three weeks of January I’ll be in the lucky position of taking part in a British Council Community Exchange programme with colleagues in Oman. This is a great opportunity for me to learn more about Education in a forward thinking Islamic country andhopefully to develop opportunities for exchanges between young people and artists from our two countries. I’ll try to provide updates while I’m there.
This has been an incredibly busy year for everyone at Curious Minds, as we’ve established ourselves as a new independent charity. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank my incredibly hard working staff team for all their efforts, our funders for their continued support and all our partners in schools and in other settings across the North West and beyond for working creatively with us to achieve our shared aims. The year ahead presents us with many challenges and opportunities and I very much look forward to exploring them with you.
With my very best wishes for the festive season and the new year.
Chris May