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Inspiring Futures is a partnership between schools and cultural organisations that works to develop an equitable space for every young person to engage in a creative education.
With our partners and steering group, Inspiring Futures identifies challenges and opportunities locally, and then develops inclusive opportunities in response that aim to produce systemic change through research, strategy, and delivery.
Inspiring Futures began life as one of the original Cultural Education Partnership pilots and is now the longest running CEP in London – operating for over 10 years.
We began by advocating for the need for more creative education in our local schools, developing the local creative leadership on all levels – from governors, teachers, local artists, and within the council. As our success grew, we began delivering large scale projects so that every student in Barking and Dagenham had the opportunity to participate in creativity during their education.
Due to the hard work of the local creative and education industry, and our many partners, Barking and Dagenham has a flourishing creative education landscape. For Inspiring Futures, our attention now turns to those who may be missed, moving to an equity model, to ensure every child has an opportunity to be creative – regardless of the barriers in place.
Our House is a 3-year research and delivery project exploring how alternative education provision can be transformed through creativity and heritage.
The programme takes place in schools across Barking and Dagenham, as well as two historic heritage spaces - Eastbury Manor House and Valence House. The project will culminate with a robust creative offer for alternative education, as well as a youth archive, and three public exhibitions, created by the young people involved in the three year R+D process. Funded by Arts Council England as part of the Place Partnership Grant programme.
Would you like to be involved? Please email vikki.lowther@lbbd.gov.uk for more information.
Every young person has the ability to be creative, tell their story and access their learning from the perspective of their own experiences. This year join Inspiring Futures: Barking and Dagenham's cultural education partnership to explore new ways to inlock creative potential, and the hopeful disruption that creativity can bring to the curriculum.
All events are FREE.
A day of creative workshops and activities developed for an inclusive cohort of children in both primary and secondary education to explore their responses to creative practice creating a provocation for the professionals’ conference.
Wednesday 23rd October at Eastbury Manor, Barking.
Join Inspiring Futures for a full day of workshops and bitesize presentations for teachers, creatives and senior leaders exploring creative practice to support our vulnerable cohorts of young people to tell their story and access their individual learning needs in creative ways. Discover ways to develop creative practice that can be accessed by all needs in your class in an exciting venue in the heart of Barking.
Tuesday 12th November at Factory 15, Make it Space, Barking.
Look out for more details and booking information in September.
Early Years Dance Toolkit (PDF, 12.69 MB)
Far From the Norm Dance Toolkit (PDF, 10.56 MB)
Inspiring Futures 10 Years Toolkit (PDF, 15.26 MB)
Arts Award Booklet: Year 7 Transition programme (PDF, 1.4 MB)
2022-2024 Headlines:
Crew Room Academy Film and Broadcasting project
Film Enterprise Project
Email inspiringfutures@lbbd.gov.uk with details about your organisation or school to be added to our contact list and be invited to future events.