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in the spotlight
  • Youth Cultural Life Fund 2020

    Are you a creative and motivated young person? Do you want to use your creative skills to make a positive change?

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  • The Mighty Creatives Sector Support Commissions

    Find out how to apply for our cultural sector support commissions.

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  • CEP – Arts Award Start Up Packages

    Are you a member of a Cultural Education Partnership and want to kick-start and develop your Arts Award provision?

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  • The Mighty Creatives’ response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis

    An update on Covid 19 from our CEO.

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  • BMBC Awards postponed due to Covid-19

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  • Arts Award Start Up Packages 2020

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  • Guest Blog from Anita Fox

    Using loans boxes to develop outreach work: consultation with children and young people.

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  • National Storytelling Week 2020:
    3 Creative Ways to Tell a Story

    Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a land far, far away…

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  • Young Performer Call Out!

    Calling all young performers! We’re looking for YOU to join us at this year’s Be Mighty Be Creative Awards!

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  • Charity of the year

    We are delighted to announce that we have been selected as Charity of the Year by the East Midlands Chamber Charity Fund for 2020

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  • Apply for a £2500 bursary for your school

    The Group School Offer programme is open once again to applications from East Midlands Schools.

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  • TMC On Tour: Leicester Print Workshop

    Nick pays a visit to our friends at Leicester Print Workshop to discuss the many ways to learn.

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  • TMC on Tour Part Two: The Collection, Lincoln

    Nick and Emily pay a visit to The Collection & Usher Gallery in Lincoln to talk all things creativity.

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  • TMC On Tour With Emily & Nick

    Our Deputy CEO Emily Bowman paid a visit to our Leicester neighbours, Curve to learn more about their future plans.

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  • The Power of Partnerships Gathering 2019

    We reflect on the first Power of Partnerships gathering from November 2019.

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  • Guest Blog: What Dance Means To Me

    Jemma is a third year student at De Montfort University, studying Dance.

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  • An Interview with Moving Together

    Moving Together have been bringing dance to communities throughout Leicestershire for 9 years. They were also one of the first creative businesses we supported through our Bank of TMC project for young entrepreneurs.

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  • Mary Strickson – The Picture Whole

    Mary Strickson is the founder of creative enterprise The Picture Whole and one of the artists behind two of The Mighty Creatives projects – Emerge and Splash!

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  • From Super Stormzy to Magical Mums on Creative Hero Day 2019

    Discover how Eyres Monsell Primary School celebrated Creative Hero Day 2019.

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  • Creative Hero Day 2019

    Help TMC raise awareness this Creative Hero Day by signing up another school!

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  • Outreach through Open Heritage Days

    Anita Fox shares how Open Heritage Day will support the development of The Collection’s outreach work.

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  • The Joy of Fundraising

    On International Day of Charity, we asked our Head of Development to share advice and insights into a career in fundraising

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  • Happy Playday (let’s make it last all year)

    Why a day spent playing is a wonderful thing!

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  • SO Festival 2019

    ​One of the UK’s leading outdoor cultural festivals is engaging young people in its weekend-long activities as part of a drive to nurture creative talent.

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  • “Changemaker” – cool job title, but what does it mean?

    Since March I have been employed by TMC as a Changemaker. The whole process was a total whirlwind of creativity, vision and hard work and I wanted to reflect on my journey, learnings and impact. By Louise Kay

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  • Notes for Change – A Poem by Charley Genever

    Charley Genever’s poem about our Create the Future conference.

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  • When we set our sails, we have to be prepared to work with changing winds

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  • From Toy Story to Treseder…

    What is it we are fighting for? Our CEO Nick and Youth Programme Coordinator Emily discuss their perspectives on Youth Voice.

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  • Changemakers Blog: Amber Murphy

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  • ARTployment ERASMUS+ study visit @ City Arts (Nottingham), May 2019

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  • Sing Like There’s Nobody Listening

    Johnny Rowlatt from Lea Primary discusses the importance of singing for young people in this guest blog post for

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  • Changemakers Blog: Louise Kay

    Today we hear from Louise Kay, about how she’s finding the Changemakers experience.

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