News and publications

Sarah Eastaff, Director of Creative Learning at darts, and Helena Honeybone, Headteacher at Town Field Primary School, reflect on the benefits of their collaborative approach to their Teacher Development Fund evaluation, sharing their learning from the process and its ongoing impact on their organisations.

Helen Barnett, Creative Director, Trestle Theatre, offers insight into their collaborative evaluation approach for their Teacher Development Fund project, partnering with the University of Hertfordshire. With co-creation built in from the start, Helen reflects on the benefits of working so closely with their partner and shares the many ways that the project communicated their learning within and beyond the programme.

Our Head of Programme – Young People, Ruth Pryce, reflects on the Government’s new youth strategy, Youth Matters: Your National Youth Strategy.

Our Head of Programme – Arts, Shoubhik Bandopadhyay, explores some of the shared approaches we’re noticing in round two of our Arts Fund.

Our Arts Team reflect on the second round of our Arts Fund, including what trends and themes we’re noticing across both rounds of grant making.

Drawing on the thoughts he shared at the announcement of this year’s Awards for Artists recipients, our Head of Programme – Arts, Shoubhik Bandopadhyay, reflects on the value of the awards and its role in our wider grant making practice.

Our response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review.

Each year, our Awards for Artists recognise exceptional visual artists and composers. We make these Awards based on a range of factors, one being the impact we believe this Award will have on an artist at that particular moment. 

Hannah Tyreman, Professional Learning Lead at the Teacher Development Trust and Advisory Group Member for our Teacher Development Fund (TDF), explores what we’re learning about the role of trust in teacher professional learning from TDF projects.