Year

Young people abroad attracted to culture and Shakespeare in UK

01-08-14
The UK’s cultural offering is the country’s most appealing feature for young people visiting from abroad, according to a new survey by the British Council.

Partnership For Excellence – Arts Award in West London Museums

31-07-14
107 young people aged 8 to 21 achieved their Arts Award through the 'Partnership for excellence' programme delivered by Orleans House Gallery.

High challenge and high support for Project Development

28-07-14
Tony McBride, Director of Projects at Cardboard Citizens, explains how participating in AND’s Action Learning set both challenged and supported his approach to developing a project.

Funding opportunities for youth and heritage organisations

24-07-14
It is great to see examples of funders taking a proactive approach to broker a relationship between youth-focused organisations and culturally-focused organisations.

Spoke’s digital intern says farewell

23-07-14
Matt Jones, digital intern at Spoke, says his final goodbyes and shares his six-month internship experience at Spread the Word and A New Direction.

From Hackney to Paris

23-07-14
This trip to Paris can only be described as a fashion fairytale, a Cinderella story in which a group of 30 East Londoners were able to join the fashion elite at a private showing of the Jean Charles de Castelbajac studio and an exclusive hand written invite to the Jean Paul Gaultier fashion show.

A New Direction and Arts Award at the Great British Carnival

22-07-14
Find out more about the number of ways you can get inspired with Arts Award at the Carnival.

London seeks next Young Poet Laureate

21-07-14
London seeks applications for next Young Poet Laureate to follow in footsteps of celebrated poet, Warsan Shire

Michael Gove replaced by Nicky Morgan as Education Secretary

18-07-14
Gove has been moved to the position of Chief Whip as part of David Cameron's major Cabinet reshuffle.

Lots of people are thinking about impact – what next?

17-07-14
In the second of two blogs following his learning seminar at the Museums & Heritage show, John draws together recent developments in cultural impact and evaluation. 

Save the date: Creating Change conference

16-07-14
A conference that will bring together academics and arts organisations to link research with practice.

Tickets available for London Youth Clubs

16-07-14
Strong Voices is offering tickets to youth groups that work with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people to Groove on down the road at the Southbank Centre.

Launching the Summer Reading Challenge 2014 

15-07-14
We were very excited to be taking part of the launch of the Summer Reading Challenge 2014 last week at the British Library.

Our selection of 20 arts & cultural activities for Summer 2014

15-07-14
With good weather on our side and hopefully plenty of sunny days, this summer promises plenty of unique opportunities for young Londoners to get involved in creative and cultural activities.

Boris Johnson launches new curriculum for London 

11-07-14
A new school curriculum for London was launched this week in a bid to help children understand the capital and its history "beyond their own postcode".

Recruiting a young person through Create Jobs

10-07-14
Clare Haskins, Head of Development at Discover Children's Story Centre, reflects on the experience and benefits of recruiting a young person through our Create Jobs programme.

Why do we evaluate cultural education, and how can we improve?

08-07-14
In the first of two blogs following his learning seminars at this year’s Museums & Heritage show, AND’s John McMahon asks why and how we evaluate cultural education, and how it could be improved.

Children, young people and social enterprise

07-07-14
Our CEO looks into Matt Little's latest report on young people, social enterprise, community service learning and innovative investment models in North America and Canada.

Investing in Arts and Culture

04-07-14
The Arts Council announced this week details of its investment over the next three years (2015-18).

Cultural Entitlement in Schools

03-07-14
AND’s third Schools Forum was an active exploration of cultural entitlement in schools and the implications it has for teaching and learning.

Making More of Music Education Hubs

02-07-14
Yogesh Dattani, Head of Ealing Music Partnership, and participant in A New Direction’s Connected London programme, shares his thoughts on some developmental work that he has undertaken to embrace a more holistic approach to arts and culture for children and young people.