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Case studies
CulturED
Lincolnshire County Council’s Heritage and Library services worked in partnership to create a project that would enable children living in rural areas throughout the county to learn about cultural diversity in an accessible and enjoyable way, through the delivery of participatory workshops in schools. read more
Play Sport
Play Sport is a community-based project set up by Nottinghamshire County Council in partnership with local sports providers. The project provides and supports sports coaching to young people in the development of fundamental movement skills, such as hand/eye coordination, strength, running, balance, agility, kicking, jumping and catching. Six multiskill coaches are working in after school clubs, voluntary sports clubs, village halls, parish council playing fields, leisure centres, FE colleges and school PE lessons over an initial period of three years. read more
Write:Muse
A partnership between Leicestershire’s Library and Open Museum services, Write:Muse aims to use museum objects and artworks as inspiration for the development of self-expression through creative writing in the county. read more
Recent news
Rural Creative Industries Research District Reports
As well as completing important regional research into the creative industries, Burns Owens Partnership completed 29 separate reports on rural and partly rural districts in the region. You can download each individual report and find out about your district here. read more
Creative Leicestershires Autumn Events.
Creative Leicestershire’s Autumn Events - Advice, Funding, Chat, Networking. Our events are open to all creative businesses in Leicestershire/Rutland. These free events focus on small arts, design and media businesses - both for starting up and for developing your business. As well as Creative Leicestershire, local authority Arts and Economic Development contacts and Business Link will be at each event. read more
EMARAN artist commission
East Midlands Arts in Rural Areas Network commissioned Jo Fairfax to respond to the issues, conversations and atmosphere at their conference in May 2008. Read on to see the result of their first artists commission. read more