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Barking

Barking & Dagenham - Creative Barking & Dagenham

Project partners: Studio 3 Arts (Lead), Barking and Dagenham Collective, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Barking and Dagenham College. 

Creative Barking and Dagenham is about local people choosing, creating and taking part in brilliant arts and cultural experiences in the borough. At the heart of their programme are the Cultural Connectors, an open and growing network of local residents. Their vision is for every Barking & Dagenham resident to have the opportunity to contribute to and benefit from a borough known for its cultural richness and collaborative spirit. Their mission is to remove barriers to arts engagement for all Barking & Dagenham residents through systems change and inclusive practice. 

Bexley

Bexley, Three Rivers  

Project partners: Peabody Trust, Orbit Housing, Red House National Trust.

Three Rivers brings local people and partners together to work out how we can use art to make a difference in Bexley. We collaborate with the people who live, work and study here, to produce festivals, run radio stations, become art critics and stitch quilts. We want to create a new way of making culture in Bexley, by empowering local people to make it themselves.

Havering

Havering, Havering Changing

Project partners: Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch (Lead), Clarion Futures (the charitable foundation of Clarion Housing Group), Havering Colleges, Havering Interfaith Forum, Havering Volunteer Centre, Havering Youth Services and myplace, Rainham Association for Village Events (R.A.V.E.), The Mercury Shopping Centre. 

Havering is changing, more than ever before. This investment is for additional activities informed by a rapidly developing programme of innovative, community led arts & culture happening in disconnected communities. Established community decision making panels will test radical new ideas, creative champion volunteers will spread the word, & local businesses will support diverse community led festivals.

The growing consortium of partners are responding to the change happening with new plans to empower underrepresented young people, respond more in places with little community infrastructure and celebrate diverse cultures through international collaborations. 

Hounslow

Hounslow, Creative People and Places Hounslow 

Project partners: Watermans (lead partner), Hounslow Music Service, Hounslow Libraries, London Borough of Hounslow, TW4 Community Development Trust

The 10-year vision of CPP Hounslow is to build a confident, colourful and creative borough. It is boosting arts capacity and audience through the development of  a programme of large outdoor events.

Newham

Newham, Culture Within Newham

Project partners: Community Links (Lead), Caramel Rock, Faithful Friends, National Cricket League, University of East London.  

Newham CPP, Culture Within Newham , will empower local people to access, participate, create & curate arts in local spaces celebrating the richness of the most culturally diverse borough in the country. It places community at the heart of decision-making about what they want to do & see in their communities in development of a CPP that co-designs & delivers excellent and inspiring art.

By bringing arts to people’s doorstep they want to radically redefine what culture means to the people of Newham with its broadest definition of who they are; how they live and what they do, by focusing on activities in local parks & green spaces, championing the homegrown, creativity & culture and working with the widest range of cultural and cross-sector partners. 

Redbridge

Redbridge, Creative Redbridge

Project partners: Vision Redbridge, Culture & Leisure (Lead), Friends of Loxford, Muslimah Sports Association, Redbridge Council Volunteer Service, SPACE Studios, Mercarto Metropolitano.  

Creative Redbridge will put outstanding arts at the heart of their neighbourhoods, made by, for & with the people who live in Redbridge. Creative Redbridge will build a people-led programme, using creativity to empower and enable lasting positive change. They will unleash talent and collaborate with local creatives to drive sustainable increases in arts engagement, guided by the creativity and ambition of Redbridge residents. Creative Redbridge will have a measurable effect on people’s well-being and levels of social energy and activism and offer the means to sustain those changes in the future.