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Creative Partnerships

Creative Junction delivered Creative Partnerships for nine years, working as the area delivery organisation for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes.

Creative Partnerships was England’s flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the skills of young people across England, raising their aspirations and achievements, and opening up more opportunities for their futures. This world-leading programme transformed teaching and learning across the curriculum. For further information take a look at the Creative Partnerships website. www.creative-partnerships.com

In Autumn 2011 at the completion of the programme Creative Partnerships was awarded the 2011 International WISE Prize for an outstanding, world-class contribution to education. http://www.wise-qatar.org/node/1585

Creative Junction would like to say thank you to all the young people, school teams, creative partners, arts and cultural organisations, creative agents, parents, universities, businesses, local authorities and others who supported this work for their imagination, perseverance and risk taking which has resulted in international recognition that this was the best programme in the world!

The programme supported innovative, long-term partnerships between young people, learning settings and creative professionals and organisations. It aimed to develop:

• the creativity and enterprise of young people, raising their aspirations and achievements

• the skills of teachers and their ability to work with creative practitioners

• schools’ approaches to culture, creativity and partnership working; and

• the skills, capacity and sustainability of the creative industries and other partners who wish to work with schools.

Creative Junction worked with 400 + schools and settings, thousands of young people and hundreds of school staff, creative partners, arts and cultural organisations and parents across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes.

For schools interested in developing creative learning with Creative Junction’s support, please see our Creative Schools service. We provide an approach tailored to your needs, and a range of services including professional development and bespoke projects and programmes.


  • USA visit to trace the history of the Paralympic Movement

    Creative Junction programme leader for the Outdoor Commission, Kelly Wilkinson, had the opportunity to visit one of the six international partners participating in the creation of a new outdoor

  • Wheels of Glory Challenge

    Monday 21st May 2012 marks 100 days to the Paralympics. To celebrate, Creative Junction are inviting children and young people to play “Wheels of Glory”, an online game based on

  • Campaign! to be ME performance

    Campaign to be ME is part of Campaign! an Accentuate project which is part of Create Compete Collaborate, delivered by Creative Junction. Accentuate has been funded by Legacy Trust UK,

  • Phenomenal Performances at The Berkshire School Games

    Last week, hundreds of students and teachers from across Berkshire came together to take part in The Berkshire School Games.

  • “What Matters?” Exhibition

    Slough young people exhibit work entered into national art competition 27 April – 4 May 2012 Slough Young People’s Centre 323 High Street Slough Berkshire SL1 1TX Admission: Free

  • Have a look at the Create for change blog

    Creative Junction’s digital producer Sam Sedgman has been collaborating with young performers and designers based at Pegasus Theatre in Oxford to create blogs as a response to their research and

  • Smooth(ie) Operators

    Find fruit. Connect your bike to your Electric Pedals dynamo and your smoothie maker. Pedal, pedal, pedal. Enjoy your human powered fruit smoothie. This workshop was experienced by

  • The halow project use Plasticine to change the world!

    Young people at The halow project are building a campaign based around their opinions and ideas. Working with Creative Junction programme leader, Rachel Sears, this work is part of Campaign!

  • Paralympians, puppet races and physical theatre

    As Starting Line, the outdoor performance commissioned by Accentuate, the Creative Programmer for London 2012, South East and Creative Junction continues to take shape in the UK with young people

  • Virtual teachers, real learning

    Chalfonts Community College in Buckinghamshire are one of the leads for Creative Junction’s Network Schools and are exploring a range of approaches and techniques to enable teachers to create short

  • Harding House work on a Paralympic-inspired outdoor performance

    In February, visual artists Rachel Gadsden and film-maker Abbie Norris worked with pupils from Harding House (Bucks) to create work for this summer’s Paralympic-inspired outdoor performance, Starting Line. Have a

  • Teachers visit artist studio

    Teachers from William Fletcher Primary School in Yarnton, Oxfordshire have been learning printmaking skills with artist Valeska Hykel both in school and on a visit to her professional printmaking studio