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A New Direction’s vision for London

Our aims for the next three years:

—To improve the extent to which all young people can engage in a broad

range of cultural and creative experiences

—To ensure that London’s cultural and creative opportunities for young

people improve and aspire to be the best in the world

—To make sure that young people from all backgrounds have the

opportunity to progress in their chosen creative and/or cultural interest

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Bridge Organisation

• Bridge organisations facilitate networks and make sure there is an ongoing

dialogue across the arts, culture and education

• Bridge organisations help schools identify and access arts and cultural

opportunities

• Bridge organisations help other arts and cultural organisations, including

museums and libraries, to bring the cultural experiences that they offer to more

children and young people

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Work we deliver:

• Artsmark, Arts Award

• Training for Teachers

• Heritage work with young people

• Arts projects on specific issues (www.trucearts.org)

• Training opportunities for young people

• Partnership with local authorities and cultural organisations

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Young people

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Creative industries

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CENTRES

In our CENTRES project we will model the

Social Enterprise Qualification (SEQ) as a means of engaging young people in creative entrepreneurship in schools.

Objectives

• To work with 5 schools across London, engaging 30 pupils at each to run creative businesses and achieve their SEQ

• To train at least one teacher per school in the SEQ

• To engage 5 mentors from the creative industries to support different aspects of project delivery and inspire young people.

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