News and publications

Building upon a well-established partnership between primary schools in Derby and Derby Theatre, Speaking Out is enabling teachers to extend their drama skills to support children’s oracy, both socially and academically, with support from the Teacher Development Fund. Anna West, Director of Learning for Performing and Creative Arts for the Saint Ralph Sherwin Trust, shares their learning journey.

Artists from the Colour Foundry are working with SEND specialist and mainstream schools in and around Huddersfield to support teachers in learning through traditional and digital arts. Now in its second year, Katrina Whale, programme lead from Castle Hill School in Huddersfield, reveals some of the complexities and the joys of working across multiple art forms and settings, as part of their Teacher Development Fund project. 

In this blog, our former colleague Shreya Gautam reflects on her role reviewing and delivering the 2024 annual Migration Residential and key lessons on convening events for the migrant justice movement.

Our Head of Programme – Education, Catherine Sutton, introduces our report on blended approaches to continued professional development and learning (CPDL). The report focuses on CPDL in the arts for primary school teachers from 2021–2023.

Our Director, Strategic Learning, Insight and Influence, Holly Donagh, explores the landscape of arts and culture funding in philanthropy and beyond.

Ruth Pryce, our Head of Programme – Young People, explores what we mean by work that goes beyond ​‘direct delivery’.

Our Arts Team reflect on the first round of applications to our Arts Fund and why applications made our shortlist.

Our Head of Programme – Young People, Ruth Pryce, reflects on the Social Change Agency’s guide to paying people for their involvement in social change.

Holly Donagh, our Director of Strategic Learning, Insight and Influence, outlines some of the pressing issues in philanthropy and reflects on the sector’s role in tackling injustice.