Professional Support
VCreate has built a strong relationships with partners, communities and schools across the country. VCreate have specific local knowledge working with a range of arts and cultural programme initiatives, schools and projects across the Midlands.
Image: Platform 31
Arts Council England: Children and Young People
Vanessa is a representative for Local Cultural Education Partnerships on Arts Council England’s peer learning network for Place-Based Consortia, which includes Local Cultural Education Partnerships (LCEPs), Creative People and Places delivery organisations and Cultural Compacts.
VCreate (Vanessa Oxspring) in association with Powered By Can (Jerrel Jackson) and Future Creators (Peter Chivers) with a team of freelancers: Rachel Carter, Deana Ward and Edward Boott, recently undertook a Place Based Consultation.
We delivered three interconnected assignments that together will provide a fuller picture of how Place Based Consortia and local cultural infrastructure work in a place (i.e. rural, urban, large, small, and places with differing levels of cultural infrastructure). A particular focus was on LCEPs (Local Cultural Education Partnerships), Cultural Compacts, and/or other place-based consortia.
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Partnership Working
VCreate has built positive relationships and partnerships with many of the region’s cultural players.
Vanessa, Director of VCreate, works very closely with Platform31 and the Black Shale Local Cultural Education Partnership (LCEP), as well as partners including Tin Arts (Durham) and Inspire: Culture, Learning and Libraries. She is also currently leading the Captivate, Ashfield, and Mansfield Cultural Education Partnership.
Previously, Vanessa worked for The Mighty Creatives (TMC) as a Project Manager for Emerge, a three-year youth program across the Midlands. She has also served as Associate Artistic Director for People Dancing, and has worked with the Gary Clarke Company and two Creative People and Places projects: Made in Corby and First Art.
Our team collaborates with a range of partners and schools to create brilliant dance and creative opportunities.VCreate has built positive relationships and partnerships with most of the region’s cultural players.
Image: Captivate-Inspire Culture, Learning and Libraries
Teaching for Creativity
Vanessa/ VCreate is working as a consultant for Teaching for Creativity led by St Luke's CE Primary School, Glossop, a partner of High Peak Bright Futures who received funding from Paul Hamlyn Foundation Teacher Development Fund (TDF). The grant supports 8 primary schools across the High PeaK District to provide a whole school approach to 'teaching for creativity' and to enhance school improvement plans. The project works with local artists, partners, schools and cultural organisations to create a dynamic new approach to ‘Arts and Creativity’ in schools. The delivery period for this grant is from April 2023 until July 2025.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Teacher Development Fund aims to enable teachers and school leaders to develop their skills, knowledge and experience to embed learning through the arts in the primary curriculum.
St Luke's CE Primary School, Glossop, a partner of High Peak Bright Futures (High Peak's Local Cultural Education Partnership), will lead the programme in association with Buxton Opera House, Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust and partners from the newly formed High Peak Bright Futures, Local Cultural Education Partnership.
