Arts Award: The Young Person's Experience

Insights into the outcomes for children and young people undertaking Arts Award across the different levels.

Arts Award: School Case studies

This resource is designed to give you an insight into the different approaches schools can take, how Arts Award links to national initiatives such as Artsmark and the Cultural Education Challenge and how it is creating the leaders of the future.

Specialist Leaders in Cultural Education: An Evaluation

This evaluation has been prepared on behalf of Curious Minds and reports on the second year of the Specialist Leaders in Cultural Education programme from September 2014 to August 2015. This research takes a case study approach, presenting an indicative sample of six of the twenty-two SLiCE partnerships active at the time this evaluation was undertaken.

British Values: Beyond Box Ticking

This document features 13 case studies adapted from the research of Curious Minds' SLiCE (Specialist Leader in Cultural Education) fellows in 2016-17, and offers the perspective of a cultural organisation who hosted three of these fellows. It focuses on how cultural education can deliver the British Values (BV) agenda, which schools are required to deliver under Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural education.

Curious in Recovery: Insights into Curious Minds' response to the Covid-19 pandemic

As North West England’s sector support organisation for creative and cultural education, Curious Minds wanted to react quickly to the coronavirus crisis to ensure our region’s cultural education ecology was able to emerge at the other side as healthy as possible.

Audience Development Toolkit for Libraries: Children & Young People

A resource created by Emma Parsons for Curious Minds.

Libraries And The Cultural Education Challenge

In light of the Cultural Education Challenge launched in October 2015 by Arts Council England, Curious Minds hope this publication will identify how libraries across the North West region are already responding, or how they are planning to respond to this important call to action.