Creative Partnerships fosters innovative, long-term partnerships between and creative professionals, including artists, performers, architects, multimedia developers and scientists. These partnerships inspire young people, teachers and creative professionals to challenge how they work and experiment with new ideas. Young people develop the skills they need to perform well not only in exams and extra-curricular activities, but also in the workplace and wider society.

Funny Wonders believe creativity is the wider ability to question, make connections, innovate, problem solve and reflect critically. These are skills that are demanded by today’s employers.

Creative learning empowers young people to imagine how the world could be different and gives them the confidence and motivation to make positive change happen. This helps young people to engage with their education and to achieve.

Creative Partnerships programmes demand that young people play a full role in their creative learning. We believe that our programmes are most effective when young people are actively involved in leading and shaping them, taking responsibility for their own learning.

Creative Partnerships programmes enable children and young people to develop the skills needed to play an active leadership role in school life.

Through Creative Partnerships Funny Wonders will work with schools from Key Stages 1 to 4 across the East Midlands. Briefs for Creative Partnership Workshops will begin in September and artists interested in taking part in this exciting programme are invited join the Funny Wonders Artist Register.