Merseyside Bridge Dg Oct

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Attendees

Arts organisation representatives

Zi Lan Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra

Leanne Jones 20 Stories High

Bill Harpe Great Georges Community Cultural CentreJack Cassady Great Georges Community Cultural Centre

Library representative

None present

Local authority representative

Alicia Smith Culture Liverpool

Cath SheaSt Helens Borough Council

Museums and heritage sector representative

Carol Rogers National Museums Liverpool

Lindsey Fryer Tate Liverpool

Jo McGuire Wirral Museums Service

Music hub representativesJonathan Dickson Liverpool Music Hub

Angela Ball - Knowsley Music Hub

Debra King Brighter Sound

Schools representative

Tracey Brown Liverpool Community College

Third sector representative

Tracy Fishwick Inclusion North West

Youth service representative

Gareth Jones Merseyside Youth Association

Curious Minds

Derri Burdon, Chief Executive

Alice Birdwood Director of Development & Innovation

Kelly Allen, Bridge Coordinator: Engagement

Alice Demba Bridge Coordinator: Quality

Tina Taylor Development & Partnerships Manager

Arts Council England, North West

Claire Eddleston-Rose, Relationship Manager: Learning

Apologies

Ruth Gould DaDaJeremy Sleith St Helens Music Hub

Bridge Development Group: MerseysideMinutes of the meeting: 29th October 2012

Minutes taken b Lindse West


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James Kerfoot Childwall Sports CollegeAnne Spears Upton Hall High School

Mandy Redvers-Rowe Collective Encounters

Emma Lloyd Sefton Borough Council

Paula Williams Knowsley Council

Chris Lennie Sefton Music Hub

Jayne Wilson The Princes Trust Centre

Monique Collier/Val ODonnell Young Persons Advisory Service

Introduction

The The group were welcomed by Derri Burdon, Chief Executive of CuriousMinds; she thanked them for attending this group meeting and giving their time to

helping Curious Minds delivery of the Bridge Programme. Derri explained that this

meeting is largely a presentation to inform the group of where the Bridge

Programme is up to but future meetings will be led much more by the group.

Curious Minds as Bridge Organisation

Derri presented information on the Bridge Programme, funded by Arts Council

England. The Bridge Programme is not a brand and is just the definition of how

Curious Minds can work with many organisations to deliver an offer to connect

children and young people with arts and culture. Derri reminded the group of the

history of Curious Minds, from Creative Partnerships and Find Your Talent, andshared with the group the values and mission of the organisation, which can be

viewed as part of the presentation on the Bridge Development Blog.

The Bridge Programme is an infrastructure programme to help others become

better at what they do, engaging with children and young people. This programme

links to ACEs Goal 5: every child and young person should experience the

richness of the arts. Curious Minds will connect schools and youth organisations

with the best that the arts and cultural sector has to offer, and this includes

uncovering resources within localities so that they can be used by them to best

effect. Curious Minds role is to work with organisations to help them cohere their

offer, make it accessible, and ensure its of highest quality.

This programme links to the wider Curious Minds business plan which explores,

connects and celebrates across people and places, policy and practice.

After this introduction, Derri instigated group introductions and the group shared

what or who inspired them as children and young people.

Bridge programme 2012/13

Following introductions Derri continued to talk further on the details of the Bridge

Programme for 2012/13 and commented that its our shared responsibility to

ensure that children and young people can come across the right people, the rightsituations and the right opportunities to engage successfully with the arts and


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cultural sector.Derri referenced the six key performance indicators (KPIs) that Curious Minds will

be monitored on by Arts Council England (the seventh KPI is internally generated)

and who within the Curious Minds team is responsible for them:

Submit a completed audit template by 1st March annually Glen Meskell,

Bridge Coordinator: Communications

Agree with ACE an annual programme of activity to identify priority local

authorities, NPOs and any targeted demographic groups Caz Brader,

Director of Programmes

Identify and facilitate quarterly arts education networks Kelly Allen,

Bridge Coordinator: Engagement

Achieve a 33% year on year increase in Arts Award achievement in the

region Hannah Baldwin, Bridge Coordinator: Achievement

To support 50% of schools across the region in achieving Artsmark status

by 2015 Alice Demba, Bridge Coordinator: Quality

Lever in additional resources against partnership investment budget

Alice Birdwood, Director of Development & Innovation

Provide support and challenge to grass-roots providers of arts and cultural

provision to improve quality and widen access to the offer for the children

and young people who need it the most Tina Taylor, Development &

Partnerships Manager.

These KPIs are specific but also enable Curious Minds to create a needs ledapproach to Curious Minds delivery of the Bridge Programme, which is why the

Bridge Development Groups have been established.

At this point, Derri shared with the group the video of the children and young

peoples consultation undertaken by Curious Minds at the beginning of 2012 as

part of the first audit of provision; sharing with the group the views of a selection of

children and young people across the region.

In the final stage of her presentation, Derri shared the areas of activity that are

currently under development at Curious Minds. What came through from the audit

were four key areas to work on that were consistent across all groups that were

consulted; Information, Communication and Advocacy; Engagement;

Achievement; and Quality.

Information, Communication and Advocacy

Glen is developing a web portal for use by schools for them to be able

to search the cultural offer in the North West in one location, it will link

to arts organisation websites

A digital tool is being developed with children and young people to

connect to social media

Engagement research is being undertaken with years 7,8,9 in three

sub-regions; how they engage with culture, where they engage with

culture, what are their comments on their experiences An E-bulletin is being produced and is circulated to nearly 3000


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recipients, please share your news through this Resources for schools; first of many will be a hard copy publication to

share with schools about Arts Council Englands National Portfolio

Organisations who prioritise work with children and young people

Engagement

Enabling more children and young people to access opportunities,

working with youth offending teams and youth zones, engaging

children and young people who are not currently linked into the arts

and culture sector

Establishing and delivering the Bridge Development Groups

Network support, including online resource to share information with

others

Achievement

Talent development and progression opportunities include links with

Creative Cultural Skills and National Skills Academy to enable children

and young people to develop careers in the creative industries

Opportunities for young people to profile their work, sharing and

celebrating their talents how can we ensure that all young people can

use resources such as performance and exhibition spaces across the

region

Support the Arts Award workforce, shared moderations, share best

practice, link to a supporting network of likeminded peopleQuality

50% of all schools in the North West to achieve Artsmark status by

2015, this is a difficult target! Curious Minds does believe in Artsmark

and that it raises the standards in schools

Arts and Cultural Advocates have been contracted to go into schools to

have one cultural conversation on delivering Artsmark and Arts Award

in their setting

Recruiting children and young people as evaluators and mystery

shoppers

Action: Members to share their thoughts on the children and young peoples

evaluator role to Alice Demba

Additional delivery linked to the Bridge Programme

Following the publication of the Henley Review of Cultural Education - and the

widening of Arts Council Englands remit - the Bridge programme will also include;

museums; libraries; heritage and archives; and media and film. Curious Minds is

currently delivering three programmes from different funding sources due to the

timing of the instigation of this widening remit, however from 2013/14 there will be

one delivery strand for all of these sectors within the Bridge Programme.

Derri also reminded the group that the Partnership Investment money is an open

and accessible fund to be used to fund projects which strategically support theaims of the Bridge programme and lever in funding from others who do not


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ordinarily fund arts and culture with children and young people. She urged thegroup to think about how this money could be used to best effect in Merseyside.

Action: Members of the group to share potential ideas and match funds with

Alice Birdwood for new opportunities to use the partnership investment

money

Bridge Development Groups

Kelly explained the purpose of this Bridge Development Group is to help Curious

Minds deliver an effective Bridge Programme in Merseyside. She highlighted the

themes of engagement and achievement that have come out of the audit and

these are the themes that will be discussed at the next two meetings. Curious

Minds has the strategic role to help the members on the ground to deliver

effective services on behalf of children and young people.

This group is made up of a range of representatives who cover arts organisations,

local authorities, museums and libraries, third sector, youth sector and education

settings. Each member has been invited as they are well networked and the hope

is that they will communicate with their networks outside of this forum to feed back

into this work. Given this, Kelly asked who else should be here? Suggestions

were representatives from; the new Headteachers networks of Free Schools and

Academies; youth services; LARC; Aspire Trust; better borough coverage of

members; Museum Forum representation; health representation, Merseyside

NHS; and Higher Education Institutions and Initial Teacher Training Institutions;political representation; and school governor forum. A member did also suggest a

Twilight Session would help school representation attendance. It was

acknowledged that not all these people needed to be a part of the core Bridge

Development Group necessarily, but their opinions are important and should be

sought through other means to inform the process wherever necessary.

Kelly distributed the draft terms of reference and asked the group briefly What

must the group must do in order to be effective? In summary the responses were:

Stay focussed; on the priorities of the Bridge Programme and to support

Curious Minds delivery; have clarity of purpose so that all members

understand the benefit of membership

Have a clear remit of how to communicate with wider networks to

ensure that this is not a talking shop but a network of expertise

delivering effectively include an advocacy pack to support wider

influence

Keep the right people in the conversation and balance the size of the

group with effective representation across the boroughs

Link young people effectively; with each other (engaged to mentor less-

engaged) and with organisations (youth services/colleges etc) ensure

they are at the heart of the group

ConclusionIn conclusion, Kelly informed the group that the next meeting will begin with an


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open session in the morning for others to attend and contribute; with the afternoonbeing the time for this group to respond and develop solutions. Kelly thanked the

group for coming to this meeting and giving their time to the Bridge Development

Group.

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