Creative Partnerships Haven Gateway

Creative Partnerships Haven Gateway is here to make a difference. It inspires young people, the teaching profession and the arts community to work together innovatively to raise aspirations, nurture imagination and develop thinking skills. Together our aim is to grow creative citizens who will have a voice and a place in the Haven Gateway region, and who will develop the life skills necessary to be valuable contributors to their communities. Education is a young person’s gateway to their future and so through promoting creative learning, we will enable young people to take the opportunities and face the challenges of the world that they are growing into.

Our aims at Haven Gateway are to:

• Increase the levels of achievement, skills and self confidence in young people
• Support school staff to develop their own creativity, feeding into motivational practices
• Support the cultural and education sectors to take an active role in creating learning
• Develop existing and establish new partnerships between schools and the creative, business, community, and statutory sectors
• Help to develop and support an infrastructure within Haven Gateway which will actively engage young people, encourage creative practitioners to live and work here and support educators to continue the ethos of creative learning
• Build on current good practice across Creative Partnerships nationally to give Haven Gateway a voice regionally, nationally and internationally.
• Debate creative learning.

Creative Partnerships Haven Gateway began its programme in 2005 in Tendring and has since worked with over fifty schools from Tendring, Colchester and Ipswich. We are currently working with twenty-three Change schools and thirty-six Enquiry schools.

Creative Partnerships Haven Gateway since July 2009 has been based at Colchester United Community Sports Trust. We work in conjunction on a number of programmes. We share a belief that together we can raise aspirations and inspire talent through sport, creativity and education which nurtures imagination and improves opportunities for young people and their communities across the Haven Gateway sub region.

From September 2010 we will be working with a further forty-four schools in the enquiry school programme from across the wider Haven Gateway. This will include schools from Tendring, Colchester, Braintree and Maldon in Essex, and Babergh, Mid Suffolk, Ipswich and Suffolk Coastal in Suffolk.