A New Direction is the strategic body for connecting young Londoners with the city’s creative and cultural energy. Our work is driven by young Londoners, and is structured around:
A New Direction to careers
We support young people in the development of skills related to employment within the creative and cultural sectors and beyond. Our work-related learning programmes and apprenticeships open doors, and help young Londoners navigate their own paths into the world of work.
A New Direction to creative potential
Through our work with schools and other settings for children and young people, we aim to ensure all young people are equipped with the capability to realise their own artistic and creative passions and pathways.
A New Direction to Audiences
We provide young Londoners with a voice, enabling them to explore their city, and communicate what it means to come from London. We do this through finding new and different ways for young Londoners to share their creative work and connect with the city’s creative and cultural sectors
We deliver the Government’s Creative Partnerships programme in London. Our 2010/11 Enquiry Schools programme will be ‘Olympic’ themed, and delivered in collaboration with 14 creative organisations, to 150 schools across London.
We are the development agency for the Arts Award in London, and deliver the Schools Cultural Vision Programme on behalf of Find Your Talent, Tower Hamlets. We are commissioned by Westfield Stratford City to develop an artist commission project engaging local schools in the transformation of Stratford, East London.
We work in partnership with IPC Media, the UK’s leading producer of consumer magazine titles, on an innovative work related learning programme, and run a number of innovative programmes for young people around skills in Photography (in collaboration with the Photographers’ Gallery) and Filmmaking (in collaboration with Eelyn Lee Productions).
Our CREATE Programmers develop skills through curating and producing events that link across the 5 Olympic Host Boroughs. We provide young people with a platform, and support a group of young ‘Citizen Journalists’ to explore and report via social media channels, on what the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games means to young Londoners.
On 4 July 2008, over 450 school pupils from the 5 London Olympic boroughs (Greenwich, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham and Waltham Forest) joined forces at the Hangar in Woolwich, to celebrate their involvement in ‘Welcoming the World’, a Creative Partnerships London East and South, and London 2012...
Three creative practitioners (Michelle Reader, Simon Bird and Iluska Farkas) worked with staff and pupils at Creative Partnerships Change School, Brindishe Primary to explore outdoor learning. From developing responsibility skills by raising chickens, to exploring the use of visual arts to build...
Downhills Primary, a Creative Partnerships Change School, collaborated with the Little Angel Theatre Company to further the drama skills of their pupils. The project began with pupils and staff visiting the Little Angel Theatre to meet the practitioners, observe rehearsals and watch a performance...
General Enquiries - A New Direction
1 Bridge Terrace
Stratford
London
E15 4BG
Telephone: 020 8536 5380
Email: info@anewdirection.org.uk
8 Oct 2008
North West Film Productions, a film crew established by Media Studies students from Queens Park Community School, have secured their first commission after just two weeks. As...
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