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

Audit, information and advocacy:

Audit identify hot spots, cold spots of engagement

Acknowledge the scope and extent of need

One stop info shop on whats available

Coordination ensure that schools are not bombarded with info and offers

Pull the while sector together national organisations, National PortfolioOrganisations, Arts Council project-funded clients, private and commercial sector,freelancers, community and voluntary sector. Map the entirety of the sector

A thorough communication network

Advocacy

Have clear, succinct and comprehensive evidence of the impact of arts andculture available to draw upon and use for advocacy and to act in a strategic advocacyrole

Profile raising:

Raise awareness of [my organisations] commitment to cultural engagement forallchildren and young people... amongst children, young people, parents, carers,schools, local authorities, and the voluntary sector working with children and youngpeople

Promoting what we are all doing / achieving

Profiling

Quality and excellence, CPD and networking:

Case studies of good practice and how to replicate it

Support training and development of a pool of freelance practitioners

Helping to connect organisations doing similar work with a similar focus to workin partnership or disseminate good practice. Provide training

Help develop and coordinate areas of specialism through partneringorganisations

Opportunities. Progression

A regional agency could (should) be the connection / glue between the individualpoints, expand the dialogue and inform / lead future innovations of working practice

Help with evaluation (which we often dont have time to do) and support indisseminating good practice

Share effective practice and impacts on children

Coherence common practice, language and vision:

Develop a new big idea Develop an engagement strategy for schools

Connecting the vision and strong networks

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Inspirational leadership Join things up! Stop people reinventing the wheel / duplicating

Coordinative support

Bringing us all together to keep the conversations flowing (not burying our headsin the sand!)

Bring everything and everyone together arts and cultural sector, young peopleand gatekeepers - into a single model

Offering a critical eye, inspiring change:

Support with overall strategic programming in terms of fresh eyes looking over

Pressure (meaning challenge)

Go beyond the usual suspects

Children, young people and families:

Work with families to break the cycle of deprivation

Empower children and young people as the young, inspiring cultural leaders

Themed table discussions: What is our ideal futurewhen it comes to engaging the disengaged? What

skills and resources do we already have? How canwe work together to achieve our goal?

How can we work together to achieve our ideal future?: Funders /stakeholders

We must do this...

Connect up and share

Connect really good artists with robust quality control

Profile and celebrate what is already happening

Find out the reason why we use culture. Why do we consume it what isthat thing?

We need to ensure that arts and culture continues in schools to ensure abasic entitlement

We need to focus on core aims and purpose. Dont be a bureaucracy butjustify your existence

Wed like to do this...

Use and engage with young peoples networks already established(networks for and by young people)

Offer more space for culture to take place

Evaluate using live evaluation methods, not dead reports so they can

be owned by young people Find out how to truly consult with young people

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Gain a proper overview of the region including the universal, targetedand special offers available

Articulate the offer in a new way

Make sure whatever we do provides room for everyone

Wouldnt it be great if...

We could cut bureaucracy

We had a generic pay scale which was affordable and still recognisedthe quality that professionals offer, taking into account skills, experienceand recommendations

We could dissolve the amount of paperwork / tick boxes and agendas

We didnt have to always prove it

We could go into communities at 11pm on a Saturday evening with a coolbloke with cool equipment

We had the opportunity to try lots of things, as in lots of cultural forms

Young people were making our decisions for us

How can we work together to achieve our ideal future?: Children andyoung people

We must do this...

Redefine culture

Reframe the discourse Empower young people to develop work

Get our house in order

Understand the gatekeepers the barriers the challenges

Enable young people to make choices for themselves

Ensure any offer is genuinely demand-led

Really come up with the new idea or the new thing

Offer choices based on demand

Create a passport

Have different offers universal, targeted and specialist

Ensure there is room for everyone in this world that celebratesdistinctiveness

Wed like to do this...

Create a new message

Stop labelling audiences

Become an agent for change a neutral body

Establish more partnerships outside the sector including voluntary,community and charities

See the sector catch-up with young people and our use of technologyand the digital world

Wouldnt it be great if... In three years, young people lead the cultural environment in the North West and

are a beacon of change and best practice to the country and the world

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How can we work together to achieve our ideal future?: North West artsand cultural organisations

We must do this...

Positively rather than negatively frame this work

Build more opinion formers who can influence the press and provide analternative discourse

Start with communitys interests (be ready to accept knitting and karaoke)

Speak the language of the health sector, education sector and wider society,then...

Build the confidence and ability of arts organisations to speak for themselves

then...

Link with people and agencies already out in the community establish long-term relationships built on trust then...

(Wed like to do this...)

Source champions and ambassadors from within the community (parents,teachers, etc.) who can assert clearly why the arts matter

Open our doors and make professional expertise and advice available, foundingrelationships on mutual respect for each others needs (the needs of arts organisationand those of children, young people and gatekeepers)

(Over time) Wouldnt it be great if...

We built a network of empowered champions who can act as a conduit intocommunities and generate new programmes

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

Establish and communicate a clear mission and associated objectives It shouldnt take money on the table to provoke action finance shouldnt

be the sole motivation to engage

Push the metaphor of a bridge as a meeting place for people to cometogether. Everyone should be aware of us and we should be the obviouspeople to call

Bring people together to talk and connect

Start small with quarterly meetings

Develop mechanisms to listen to the needs of children and young peopleall the way through (e.g. 0-25)

Bring young people from across Lancashire and Merseyside together and

speak to them so we are clear on their needs

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Acknowledge what young people are faced with at this moment in time volunteering (Big Society; National Citizen Service), new pressures suchas SATs in primary school

Acrostics:

Creating

Understanding

Resourceful

Inspiring

Original / Opportunity

Unlimited

Success

Building

Revolutionary

Ideas

Developing

Greatness in

Everyone

Building

Relationships

Inclusive

Dialogue

Genuine

Engagement

North West

Or!

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Really

Tremendous

Happening?

Wise and wonderful

Educators

Sussed

Together!

Share Knowledge

Universal

Promote

Put People First

Organise

Radical Transformation

Brave

Revolution

Inspiring

Diverse

Global

Evolution and excellence

Haikus

Bringing young people

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A lot closer to the arts

To improve their lives.

The Bamboo sings and bends

Ready for all weathers

Grows strong, proud and true

Shizzle my nizzle

And Buyaka sha home boy....

...We need to get young.

Sunshine today and

Big task in your way you must

Trust, connect always.

The power of three

Who are we?

Child, keeper, creator a triangle

Makes us three and three power trebles

Get on board the magical bus with us

No fuss

Grab a map seat for all

Choose the route, change the route, come with us

On the magical mystery tour bus.

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