Curious Minds

What We Do

Curious Minds delivers high quality programmes concerned with education and learning, regeneration and cohesion, and the development of social and emotional well being.

Current Projects, Projects and Activities

Bride Organisation - North West 2012

From April 2012, Curious Minds will become one of ten regional Bridge Organisations in England that will support innovative and transformative arts and cultural work with children and young people. Find out more...

Services for Schools

This year Curious Minds is collaborating with 170 primary, secondary and SEN schools across the North West - schools that are uncompromising in their determination to get results and equally uncompromising in taking the richest, most stretching and meaningful route to success.

Here you can find out more about how - and why - you should join them. Find out more...

Arts Award

Arts Award aspires to support any young person to enjoy the arts and develop creative leadership skills. Curious Minds is currently driving participation in Arts Award through a network of arts organisations and local authority partners across the North West. Read more...

Curious Project 6

Curious Minds together with Regenerate Pennine Lancashire and Lancashire County Council have been developing a project designed to explore the means by which young people in Pennine Lancashire can develop increased and meaningful involvement in regeneration through involvement in creative projects. The website for this project was launched in April 2010. Visit Curious Project 6

Previous Projects, Programmes and Activities

Big Art Project

The Big Art Project 'Invisible', in Burnley demonstrated how young people can respond to complex challenges when they are given the opportunity to act as leaders and take genuine ownership of decision-making processes.

BLAZE

Blaze is working with young people from across Lancashire, Blackpool and the Fylde Coast to create a vibrant programme of work each summer within the context of the theme of tracks and trails; linking art and sport, people and places, physical and digital spaces

Building Schools for the Future

Building Schools for the Future (BSF) was the most ambitious school building scheme of its kind in the world and without precedent in terms of sheer scale. Curious Minds is curently working in Liverpool and Knowsley with BSF.

Creative Partnerships

Creative Partnerships is Englands flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the skills of children and young people across England, raising their aspirations, achievements, skills and life chances. Read more...