CEPs are cross-sector, strategic partnerships that work together to improve cultural education for children and young people (0-25yrs) in their local area. CEPs support children and young people to fulfil their creative potential and access high-quality cultural experiences where they live, where they go to school, and where they spend their free time. Partners come together to drive a more joined-up cultural education offer, share resources, and improve the visibility of cultural education in their local area.
While all CEPs are working together towards the same goal, each CEP is very different. They are all locally driven and rooted in the specific challenges and opportunities of their place.
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CEPs exist all over the country. The Ealing CEP was set up in 2020 and is called 'Youth Culture Revolution Ealing'.
Our vision
Ealing is a place where all young people (0-25 years) have access to the richness and diversity of the high quality, vibrant arts and culture programme across the borough, with a pathway to careers and wider opportunities.
Our aims
- Provide young people with equal access to arts opportunities
- Support young people to be the driving voice in the evolution of the CEP
- Create a more diverse training sector and workforce.
Our objectives
- Support schools to work towards Artsmark via the Network of Ealing Arts Leads (NEAL) events
- Create a digital platform to connect to, families and schools to activities and events across the borough
- Support the development and promotion of local projects
- Provide support for teachers to deliver a diverse and high-quality arts curriculum
- Strong relationships are building between schools and arts and culture providers
- Youth Voice Vehicle input making impact in direction of CEP
- Create a visible pathway from early years arts and culture experiences through to careers in the industry
- Support the arts and culture industry to create work experience opportunities and upskilling for young people.
Our outcomes
Directory
In partnership with the Young Ealing Foundation, Youth Culture Revolution Ealing has a digital directory. This promotes and shares arts and culture experiences, activities and resources for, young people in Ealing.
- Young people, families and schools: Search the directory
- Organisations and providers: Add to the directory. Fill in the form to add any programmes, projects, or resources that you have planned. You will need a Google account to do this.
Network of Ealing Arts Leads (NEAL)
Youth collectives
Our ambition is for our Cultural Education Partnership to be youth driven. To make this possible, we want to set up youth collectives in the towns of the borough.
We carried out a pilot project of youth collectives in three towns in the borough in Summer/Autumn 2022. Young people in Acton, Greenford and Northolt were given funding and support towards creating an event or piece of public art for their immediate local area.
The young people took part in upskilling workshop sessions. These gave them the tools they needed to complete the project successfully. They were trained in Peer Consultation and use these skills to gather thoughts from peers and the wider local youth community to feed into the development of the final piece.
This project was developed by the CEP’s Youth Advisory Group which was established in the Autumn 2021.
We would like to thank the team at Bollo Brook for facilitating the pilot project and working with us to develop the larger scale Youth Collectives programme, which we will be fundraising for in 2023.
Arts charter
We have developed an arts charter for all Ealing schools. This list of 11 points acts as an arts policy for most schools that did not have one. They can also be added to an existing policy. Schools will be able to easily find any gaps and join a structured programme of support sessions and mentoring from the CEP team to help develop creative learning in their school. We will officially launch the Arts Charter early 2023.
Ealing’s CEP was set up in early 2021 and would like to thank Ealing Council, Young Ealing Foundation, John Lyon’s Charity and Challenge London Legacy Funding for their generous support.