Start set to reach more than 18,000 children in 2009/10
Posted 2nd July 2009 17:05pm by Alison Duguid
A variety of cultural venues have recently been selected by The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts to work with them in delivering their Start programme for 2009/10 to children around the UK. The 13 new arts partners will join the existing 27 arts organisations already working with Children & the Arts on Start to ensure access to the arts for 18,000 children who currently receive little or no arts provision.
Those partners selected are: Bodelwyddan Castle Trust, National Museum Cardiff, The Makers Guild in Wales, DanceEast, Norwich Castle Museum, Battersea Arts Centre, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, No Limits Theatre, Northern Stage, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, Theatre Royal Margate, Royal Cornwall Museum, and Warwick Arts Centre.
Start provides funding and support to cultural venues so that they can form partnerships with primary and secondary schools in their local area. Throughout an academic year every participating student will attend at least two professional performances, concerts or exhibitions as well as taking part in a series of workshops and follow up work in the classroom designed to bring their experience to life. Through Start children will discover that cultural venues are welcoming, accessible and exciting places to be.
Children & the Arts CEO, Jeremy Newton said, "I'm delighted that our Start programme has now reached so many parts of the UK, with new partners as far apart as the Outer Hebrides and Cornwall. The artistic range of our projects is equally wide, offering us the opportunity to test a variety of different and innovative approaches to engaging young people in the arts for the first time."
There is more information about the Start Programme here on the Children & the Arts website.
