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?

The Mighty Creatives Sector Support Commissions

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

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?

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

An update on Covid 19 from our CEO.

BMBC Awards postponed due to Covid-19

Arts Award Start Up Packages 2020

Guest Blog from Anita Fox

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

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…

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!

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

Apply for a £2500 bursary for your school

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

TMC On Tour: Leicester Print Workshop

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

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.

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.

The Power of Partnerships Gathering 2019

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

Guest Blog: What Dance Means To Me

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

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.

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!

From Super Stormzy to Magical Mums on Creative Hero Day 2019

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

Creative Hero Day 2019

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

Outreach through Open Heritage Days

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

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

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

Why a day spent playing is a wonderful thing!

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.

“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

Notes for Change – A Poem by Charley Genever

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

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

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.

Changemakers Blog: Amber Murphy

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

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

Changemakers Blog: Louise Kay

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