Named by and run with children and young people, The Mighty Creatives is the young people's creative development agency for the East Midlands. Launched in April 2009, our programmes and partnerships prepare children and young people for a lifetime of leadership, innovation and enterprise by giving them creative skills to drive positive change in their lives and communities.
We believe creative children and young people are integral to the region's success, both now and in the future. They can use their imaginations to address the region's priorities, driving forward innovation in schools, communities, business and the environment. Our challenge is to ensure adults want this to happen.
The Mighty Creatives team works across the East Midlands to support local partnerships and programmes, which include Creative Partnerships, Find Your Talent, Journal Project 2009-2012, MLA and Ignition.
The East Midlands covers the counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and Rutland, and the unitary authorities of Nottingham, Leicester and Derby. This makes it an extremely diverse region, socially, economically and ethnically, and schools currently participating in the Creative Partnerships programme reflect this, from large urban secondaries to small rural primaries.
We aim to put creative young people at the heart of:
We do this by:
Places and Spaces - Exploring Learning Beyond a Familiar Environment
Lift Off!
The 'Finding Out' project at Imperial Avenue Infant School focused on the Key Stage 1 Science curriculum and aimed to raise the profile of science within school. Children arrived at school one day to discover that a 'pod' had landed in an outdoor area of their school. On the first day, the children...
This project at Southend Junior School, Rushden, Northampton, focussed on involving staff and pupils in the creation of an engaging, relevant and challenging curriculum, in order to bring about change in teaching and learning.
Bel The Giant is a Leicestershire mythological legend that explains how certain places (e.g. Belgrave, Birstall, Mountsorrell, Rothley, Wanlip) were named. The project explored the cultures found in three of the above places and looked at giants found in various mythological stories from all over...
The Mighty Creatives
LCB Depot
31 Rutland Street
Leicester
LE1 1RE
Telephone: (0)116 261 6834
Email: info@themightycreatives.com
30 Jul 2010
Dozens of pupils and teachers at schools across the county are celebrating after being selected as a Creative Partnerships School.
3 Jun 2010
The Mighty Creatives (TMC) are always looking for new and exciting ways to engage with young people and to offer them opportunities to get involved. And that's why Communications...
11 May 2010
A DVD produced during the Pilot Phase of TMC's Journals Project has now been submitted to Public Record Offices across the East Midlands.
11 May 2010
The Mighty Creatives has teamed up with Find Your Talent to offer young people the chance work on a communications project over the summer. Five young people attended the first...
11 May 2010
CCE’s ‘Tell Us Bus’ The Mighty Creatives (TMC) have an exciting opportunity for up to six young people to tour the East Midlands with CCE’s ‘Tell Us Bus’.
29 Apr 2010
*Think Tank* Young people across the region need you to have your say in their future too!
21 Apr 2010
The deadline for Change School recruitment is looming but Enquiry School placements have now opened!
15 Apr 2010
Between Monday April 19 and Wednesday April 21, The Mighty Creatives are moving offices within the LCB Depot in Leicester to accommodate our growing staff base.
1 Apr 2010
The Mighty Creatives formed a year ago on 1 April and to help us celebrate our achievements to date we'll be launching a brand new website today just for you!
2 Nov 2009
Pupils in Leicester are stepping into the space age this autumn as they mix drama and science to explore their new school. Pupils from Beaumont Leys School have been working with...
8 Apr 2009
Creative Partnerships works to give school children in areas throughout England the opportunity to develop their potential, their ambition, their creativity and imagination through...
21 Jan 2009
Katherine Clarke and Verity Jane Keefe from award winning art/architecture collective muf. have been working strategically with Dale for 3 years, to explore and test models for ideal...
11 Nov 2008
Young People from schools across Derby attended a groundbreaking showcase event celebrating creative learning in Derby schools working with Creative Partnerships.
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