How we work

Creative Partnerships fosters innovative, long-term partnerships between schools 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.

About Creative Partnerships

Creative Partnerships is the Government’s flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the skills of young people across England, raising their aspirations and equipping them for their futures.

In the regions

Creative Partnerships operates on a regional basis throughout England.

Find out what's happening in your area.

Working in educational settings

Creative Partnerships works with maintained schools from Key Stages 1 to 4 across England. A school can apply to one of three schools programmes according to its needs and its commitment to creative learning.

Creative Professionals

Long-term relationships between creative professionals and schools lie at the heart of the Creative Partnerships process. Creative professionals work as Creative Agents, helping to deliver the programme, or as creative practitioners working directly with students and teachers.

ambassadors & supporters

Nitin Sawhney works with some Creative Partnerships students

Our ambassadors and supporters have been chosen as inspirational leaders in their creative fields who have an understanding and passion for the need for young people to access creativity in their day to day school lives.