capturing quality and excellence - royal exchange 2 august 2011

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What value could a regional agency add to yourwork with children and young people?

Audit, information and advocacy:

One voice

Add weight raise awareness Raising the profile of arts and cultural learning

Lobby the government to keep creativity on the curriculum

Marketing work in a way that ensures the buy-in of teachers

Coordination of marketing / promotion to schools and young people

Quality and excellence, CPD and networking:

Help us to meet people we otherwise wouldnt, with space to create newpartnerships

Regional database of contact details for experienced creative's details of whatthey have done, with whom, etc.

Advice and support through networks collective wisdom Peer review of policy development the low down

Opportunities to connect more widely with practice within the sector

Sharing learning and expertise

Share evaluation and learning so were not all reinventing the wheel

Common evaluation tools and methods to assess impacts across the board

Find a unified way of measuring the impact / value of arts on young people tracking through the years

Connecting sectors, making new links:

Spot / broker working partnerships

Coherence common practice, language and vision:

Coherence across: the region; art forms; different kinds of organisations NPOs,private sector, etc.

Oversee a more joined-up approach, with the potential to develop widerprogression routes

Vision

Identify the gaps in current delivery and help us to fill them

Joint funding bids / coordination

Share physical resources create pool of cameras, instruments, etc. for projectsacross the sector

Facilitate shared venue spaces for activities to happen

Offering a critical eye, inspiring change:

Advise

Sharing and debate event: Thriving Together:Partnership and Collaboration, Royal ExchangeTheatre (Manchester), 2 August 2011


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Lead and challenge discussions

How would a fantastic bridge organisation operate?

We have useful information and expertise, which we widely share

Accessible

We genuinely listen, consider and respond

We work broadly with a range of partners

We promise only what we believe we can deliver

Themed table discussions: What is our ideal futurewhen it comes to Partnerships and Collaboration?What skills and resources do we already have? Howcan we work together to achieve our goal?

As a sector what are our strengths and what do we need to build on toensure future success and strength?

Strengths Pathways and Signposting

Providing pathways to professionalism

Evaluation

Advocacy

Developing case studies and rigorous evidence about the impact of the work weundertake

Self depreciation

Respectful of organisations unique selling points and areas of specialism We are flexible

We are resilient

We are strong because we are here today involved in conversations that showsa strong, inspired sector.

We are good at talking, listening and understanding

Collaborating / Sharing

Sharing information and ideas. Creating an infrastructure for that to take placewithin.

Encouraging talking to each other

We share the same ideals talking to young people, reflective, learning and

collaborating. We offer a range of opportunities for young people

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We are great at being creative and innovative we are experts in problemsolving

We have interesting partnerships with academic partners, for research and skillsdevelopment.

We can be inclusive access for all children and young people.

We inspire young people to seek brighter futures

We are hard working so we can achieve our aims and support children andyoung people

We have energy and commitment

We are innovative and forward thinking as a sector

We believe in what we do

We are hard working We are consistent in our work and focus

Areas to build on Check out other models of sharing - such as Cool or LARC in Liverpool.

Act as a collective voice

Share resources

There are already a strong network of forums for collaboration geographicaland within art forms and target groups. But can we join these separate conversationstogether?

We are an ideas generation and we need to encourage that more

We need to develop opportunities for young people to be leaders

We do and should provide creative and exciting activities

We should be engaging our communities

We build partnerships with schools problem solving those schools wherecollaboration can be difficult because of setting.

We should be consulting with children and young people

Reaching the hard to reach increasing participation

Ownership of lots of youth led projects.

We already have groups of similar organisations that meet regular to sharepractice and develop the offer across our provision

We have lots of young people focused venues and organisations but notenough

How can we work together to achieve our ideal future?

We must do this...

Lobbying the government for cultural offers to YP

Common evaluation framework to build evidence for lobbying.

Communication pathways/new evaluation processes/format.

New set of values to measure success and impact.

LISTEN and respond to demand.

Peer evaluation. Be open with our assets / resources / intelligence

Consultation with users - find the gaps

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Preserve existing brokerage systems. Effective arts in schools services. Reassure CM wont undermine that.

Map whats there and what quality is how effective responsive to changingcontext.

Wed like to do this...

Share back office services - HR, procurement, utilities...

Facilitating partnerships to lead to joint working and accessingcommissioning opportunities.

Annual gatherings to share practice experience and knowledge. Peerevaluation

Tracking young people across different orgs. Quality as well as hours...

Direct programming...

be smarter with pots of funding ...procurement - special purpose vehicles& consortia to unlock funding

Drive dialogue achieve greater impact.

Demonstrable and communicate not onerous.

Raise the bar for commissions they demand more if they are non arts.

Get local right consistency on how brokerage happens nuanced roleout.

Wouldnt it be great if...?

Have a party awards to celebrate our achievements org & YP

Not to scrabble for same pot of money/ application open everyone

If schools understood the process by which arts, culture happens e.g. notjust parachuting in as projects.

If there was less duplication & knowledge expertise/experience loss.

As a city region there is an opportunity to draw and construct map of whatis out there for C&YP. Who is doing what and how quality, sustainedactivity etc. This is a timely opportunity which will only be available for thenext year...

Bridging social capital connect YP to others elsewhere encourage

mobility aspiration

What should Curious Minds be thinking about ordoing as a bridge organisation? What challengesare we likely to face and how can we overcomethem?

Persuading decision makers how are you going to do this? Establishing a shared vision and reasons for engaging

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Clarity in your key conversations with networks streamlines these networks andavoids duplication

Define clear routes in and through for children and young people

Get to know USP resources within organisations and facilitate matchmaking

Regional commissioning quality framework

Provide quality freelancers build new relationships

Signpost to provision

Us a culture vultures peer support platform

Open resources, inclusive of contacts list who was there Define what schools are looking for what we as arts orgs are looking for

Share tenders and grants across the sector and within it

Challenging people to raise the bar

Peer evaluation sourcing critical friendships

Need to ensure Curious Minds is diverse and not uniform

Ensure we all have clarity of role and relationship

Ensure you are a partner and not just the quality police

Ensure you are courageous Make sure you are standing within the conversation not outside of it

Accountability set clear guides on how arts/cultural orgs are accountable to youand how you are accountable to arts/cultural orgs

Semantics to create a common and inclusive language for the arts and Arts abilingual flow e.g. Argot long perceived in prison settings.

Children and young people how we talk about them, what do they want to becalled. Cant come across as patronizing

Freelance networks Also to manage networks within networks

How Curious Minds talks with all sectors Mapping in a changing climate how to gather, aggregated and communicate avoid duplication,

The balance between the formal and non-formal offer

Approaching young people as consumers and mapping their journeys

Finding, mapping, bringing together existing forums

Learning from (not duplicating) existing successes i.e. COOL Panda makesimilar models and appropriate to each other

Give us space within events to talk freely germinate partnerships

Other partners young people, creative professionals, voluntary sector, youthemployment, education, commercial sector

Be open minded, creativity isnt only the arts

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Build collaboration with non-arts partners i.e. Zion Virgin link

Manage expectations we cant do any more for less!! But we can do it less andbetter.

How do we get the organisations that arent here to engage?

Will people travel to Clitheroe etc? But not fair to ask Cumbrians to travel to us.Split geographically, 2 events partnerships likely to be more local

Perception of Curious Minds role asking for input from us now, but risk of beingseen to have favourites. How to let everyone know.

Dont be limited to existing networks make invitations clear

Mapping and audit cross regional

Take away the inward facing mindset

More events speed dating like to help build relationships and share provision

Curious Minds should be leading that collaboration

Making links into other interesting sectors sports, arts, health, business

Bring arts to settings that wouldnt normally have arts

Commissioning sense bringing partners outside the sector to the table toenable funding

Brokering relationships for the benefits of children and young people business,corporate social responsibility

Look at creative industries, not just art forms that are traditional

Similar networking events with young people forums that you can use as yourmost important resource

Raising awareness of arts/cultural/creative industries to schools all schools.

Acrostics and Haikus

Youth LedOrganicUnderstandingNeedsGenerating Funds

ProvisionEqualityOptimistic

Pro-activeLeadersEvolution

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CreativeOutward FacingListeningLearningArtsBrokeringOriginalRealisticActiveTalkingEducating

AspirationResourcefulTransparent

Appeal to peopleWho dont care for art that much?As well as converts

Invite everyoneNew faces outside this roomAre also curiousFind and map learningPartner, people, open-mindsBut do less better

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