News and publications

Our Director of Grants, Abdou Sidibe, examines the results of our most recent racial justice audit.

Professor Teresa Cremin, Co-Director, Literacy and Social Justice Centre at The Open University and Chair of the TDF Advisory Group, shares her cautious optimism for the re-valuing of the arts within the ​‘refreshed’ curriculum and encourages all those involved in the Teacher Development Fund programme, both past and present, to add their voices to the ongoing review.

Sarah Eastaff, Director (Arts and Education) for darts, Doncaster’s leading creative health and learning charity, shares the learning from their Teacher Development Fund programme which partners with eight schools from the Rose Learning Trust in and around Doncaster. Along with year one observations, Sarah considers some of the challenges and discusses their intentions for year two, as they aim to embed the practice across their schools.

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’.