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Attendees
Arts organisation representatives
Nina Hajiyianni Action Transport Theatre
Amber Knipe Chester Performs
Tina Redford Brighter SoundLibrary representative
None present
Local authority representative
Helen Paton Cheshire East Council
Laura Orchard Cheshire West and Chester Council
Debbie Cottam The Conway Centre
Jocelyn Macmillan Cheshire Council
Museums and heritage sector representative
Helen Evans National Waterways Museum
Kate Harland Grosvenor Museum
Music hub representativesChris BastockCheshire East Music Hub
John Barber Cheshire East Music Hub
Alan Milnes Wirral and Cheshire West Music Hub
Alison Corten - Chester
Carolyn Warburton Wirral and Cheshire West Music Hub
Janet Whittingham Halton Advisory Music Teacher
Schools Education representative
Jodie Gibson Access Arts Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University
Third sector representative
Chris Hindley Cheshire Youth Federation
Youth service representative
None present
Curious Minds
Derri Burdon, Chief Executive
Kelly Allen, Bridge Coordinator: Engagement
Glen Meskell Bridge Coordinator: Communications
Jude Bird Services for Schools Consultant
Arts Council England, North West
None present
Apologies
Adam Holloway Cheshire DanceCaz Brader Director of Programmes, Curious Minds
Bridge Development Group: CheshireMinutes of the meeting: 30th October 2012
Minutes taken b Lindse West
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Claire Bigley Halton Borough CouncilJames Goodison Warrington Council
Lindsay Weaver Cheshire Young Carers Group
Introduction
The group were welcomed by Derri Burdon, Chief Executive of Curious Minds;
she thanked them for attending this group meeting and giving their time to helping
Curious Minds delivery of the Bridge Programme. She confirmed that the Bridge
Development Groups have a clear purpose and are not talking shops however
she also explained that this meeting is largely a presentation to inform the group of
where the Bridge Programme is up to but future meetings will be led much moreby the group.
Derri introduced the Curious Minds team present at the meeting, Kelly Allen, Jude
Bird and Glen Meskell and said that their roles will be explained during the course
of her presentation.
Curious Minds as Bridge Organisation
Derri presented information on the Bridge Programme, funded by Arts Council
England. Many see this programme as a sequel to the Find Your Talent and
Creative Partnerships programmes, whilst they all had the aim of improving
access to high quality arts and culture, members will not see direct project
activity delivered to young people through the Bridge Programme. One of tennationally, the Bridge Programme is strategic, for intelligence gathering and
supporting other organisations to be better at what they do. This programme is not
about doing more of the same, or simply about increasing the amount of provision.
There is also no brand for the Bridge Programme although an Arts Council
England Bridge Organisation logo does exist. The Bridge Programme is lottery
funded and Curious Minds is considered a National Portfolio Organisation.
Curious Minds Business Plan links well to the vision of the Bridge Programme.
The work of the charity focuses on Exploring, Connecting and Celebrating arts and
cultural work with children and young people.
Action: If you would like to see the Curious Minds business plan please just ask.
The beginnings of the Bridge Programme were introduced by Derri, with
clarification that the programme supports Arts Council England in their delivery of
their goal 5 that every child and young person should experience the richness of
the arts. Upon starting the Bridge Programme Curious Minds undertook the
significant audit of children and young peoples provision in the region, speaking to
over 450 people across schools, arts organisations, local authorities and children
and young people themselves. There were four clear areas for development in
conclusion of the audit: communication, engagement, quality and
achievement/progression. Also across all of these money plays a significant roletoo, although within the report some did suggest that lack of money challenged
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them to be more creative and use money more wisely.
Derri passionately spoke about quality provision and what does this look like in the
arts sector. How do we ensure that people delivering arts provision on a shoe
string are still delivering work of high quality?
All of these strands are being addressed in the first year of the Bridge Programme
and will be monitored by Arts Council England across six Key Performance
Indicators. Curious Minds is passionate about the Bridge Programme and are
keen that the activity delivered will be dictated by the region and the Bridge
Development Groups while also aligning to the KPIs.
Further detail of the programme for 2012/13 was given:
Information, Communication and Advocacy
Glen Meskell Bridge Coordinator: Communications
Annual audit of provision will be undertaken; mixture of soft narrative and
hard data
Creation of a web-portal, an online information tool to signpost schools and
youth settings to the providers of arts and cultural provision in the North
West
Digital tool for young people developed in partnership with young people
- which links to their social media usage, allowing them to profile their ownwork and review their experiences
Engagement research; survey of 30,000 young people (years 8,9 and 10)
what culture they engage with, how, why and when?
Monthly e-bulletin; circulation of 3,000
Action: Members to send information to put on the e-bulletin to Dave Muir
at Curious Minds ([email protected])
Resources to schools; hard copy publications and flyer produced for
schools to share the wealth of arts and culture in the region
EngagementKelly Allen Bridge Coordinator: Engagement
Enabling more children and young people to access opportunities, those
who cant or dont choose to engage in culture; working with youth justice
and youth zones to develop models for engagement
Creation and lead of the Bridge Development Group network
Support of wider networks across the region and Curious Minds will
provide a web space for networks to share information, minutes, agendas
so that all members of the sector can contribute
Achievement & ProgressionHannah Baldwin Bridge Coordinator: Achievement
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Achieve 33% year on year increase in Arts Award achievement in theregion
Signposting opportunities for children and young people to showcase their
work on a regional platform
Coordinate and research opportunities for clear progression within the
creative industries
Support of the Arts Award workforce; give opportunities to advisors to meet
and support each other through training and networks
Quality
Alice Demba Bridge Coordinator: Quality
By 2015 50% of schools to have achieved Artsmark status
Arts & Cultural Advocates appointed to build relationships with schools and
have one cultural conversation persuading them to embed arts and
culture into their curriculum promotion of Arts Award and Artsmark in
schools
Support Trinity appointed Artsmark workforce
Development of young people as evaluators/mystery shoppers
Money
Alice Birdwood Director of Development & Innovation
Tina Taylor Development & Partnerships Manager 100% cash match Partnership and Investment fund worth 430,000 is
available to lever in new money to the sector that would not normally be
spent on arts and culture, and to help the Bridge team achieve their KPIs.
Urge for the Bridge Development Group to use their contacts to work with
Curious Minds to create some exciting new programmes to
Action: Members to contact Alice Birdwood with ideas and contacts for
Partnerships Investment development
Grass roots organisation support; children and young people in small
localities access provision delivered by small organizations. Curious Minds
is keen to ensure that the quality of their provision is the best it can be by
supporting their organisations to be the best that they can be
In summary, in delivering those KPIs Curious Minds is establishing regional, sub-
regional and local creative hubs so that a coherent offer is available to all children
and young people which will enable them to understand what is on offer in their
locality, sub-region and across the North West; in all, helping them to progress
and develop their experiences and skills.
Following the establishment of the Bridge Programme Curious Minds has now
also been given further funding following the Henley Review of Cultural Education.
Jude Bird is leading this work to connect with teaching schools and Curious Mindshopes that each Teaching School Education Alliance has representation from an
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arts organisation, museum or library in the near future.
The group responded to the presentation as follows:
How are Curious Minds judging quality? Arts Council England
recommends referrals to National Portfolio Organisations as they have
been through a rigorous process. For Curious Minds it needs to be broader
than this to enable all levels of arts and cultural engagement, they use the
Artsmark framework to support their decision on quality, they encourage
schools to engage with credible arts organisations and artists, and develop
their own sense of what quality is.
Badge holder of learning outside the classroom said they are no longer
doing it due to cost implication and schools never used it as criteria for
commissioning work. Another member commented that it does have worth
and understanding of the badge by schools is on the increase.
What is a credible artist? How does this support new and emerging artists?
Whats the role of CPD for artists? How can Curious Minds support
schools understanding of CRBs and regulated activity? Curious Minds has
been told that workforce development is the responsibility of Creative and
Cultural Skills. Curious Minds may be an Umbrella Body for CRB checks.
Kelly informed the group that Curious Minds aims that every school in the
North West will have an Arts and Culture key contact who Curious Minds
and arts organisations, museums and libraries will be able to communicatewith going forward.
What is the Bridge Organisations ongoing strategy for information
gathering? Research in Years 8,9,10; Curious Agents in sub-regional and
sector specific roles; and annual audit were mentioned as steps in this
process.
Following this discussion Derri instigated introductions for the group, inspired by
the book Curious Stories asking who or what inspired you growing up? The
group shared their inspirations with each other.
Bridge Development GroupKelly shared with the group that their purpose was to support and help Curious
Minds deliver an effective Bridge Programme. Through working in partnership with
each other Kelly hoped the group will be able to address the challenges of
Engagement and Achievement in the coming meetings. The group has been
selected because of their influence and experience here in Cheshire, the issues in
each sub-region are different and so this group can shape a programme for
Cheshire. Kelly confirmed that Curious Minds is in a strategic role here, supporting
the members to do things better, they are not in competition with the members.
Kelly has thought hard about who the members of the group should be and
decisions were made based on a fair cross-sector representation. Members havebeen invited here to represent their sector, not just their organisation. Kelly then
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posed the question who else should be in the room? to make this group effective.The group responded; a representative from Boost Education Partnership;
Primary, Secondary and Special School Heads Association; Community & Faith
groups; early years groups; libraries representation; equal representation across
Cheshire West and East.
The group discussed the importance of how the information from the Bridge
Development Group is disseminated to the wider networks to ensure that the
group can be truly representative of the needs within Cheshire. Kelly informed the
group that the next event will be a full day event. In the morning it will be open to
all to come and discuss the issues in Cheshire but in the afternoon this group will
be challenged to devise solutions to those issues raised.
Kelly confirmed that Curious Minds does not have all the answers and will be
drawing upon the expertise of the group. She circulated the draft terms of
reference as a starting point and posed the question How does this group need to
work in order to be effective in Cheshire? The group responded as follows:
Clear strategy and action points; clarity of roles between Curious Minds as
Bridge Organisation and the Bridge Development Group.
The group needs a high profile and clear brand; supporting best practice
and linking to opportunities with strategic commission boards.
Ensure that children and young people are represented well.
Representative of children and young people on this group? Run asanother group or through communication by members with their own
existing CYP groups?
Balance strategic understanding and on the ground knowledge to develop
local offers.
Ensure the group has the right information to be able to advocate on behalf
of Curious Minds.
Support schools in their understanding of CRB requirements and how to
engage arts and cultural providers (this may be a specific piece of work,
rather than the role of the Bridge Development Group).
Commitment to a shared information resource for schools and young
people that does not reinvent the wheel but enables all existing
opportunities to be located.
Quality mark development for levels of accreditation and Arts Award route
for existing networks.
In conclusion, Kelly shared with the group the Children and Young Peoples
consultation video produced earlier in 2012. She then thanked the group for their
time and invited them to stay for lunch.