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Creative Civic Change

Creative Civic Change was an experimental funding programme supporting 15 communities across England to shape, lead and commission arts and creative interventions, to make positive social change where they lived.

 

About Creative Civic Change
Creative Civic Change: programme partners

Meet the partners who worked with communities to deliver Creative Civic Change
podcast
December 2022
Don’t Get Any Ideas: The podcast about Creative Civic Change

Welcome to Don’t Get Any Ideas, a podcast series all about Creative...
Culture and creativity

Creative Civic Change evaluation

Explore the final programme evaluation below:

 

What impact did Creative Civic Change have on communities?

Explore the different types of connection created through Creative Civic Change
What made Creative Civic Change possible?

The principles, values, resources and support that made the programme possible
What obstacles did Creative Civic Change communities face?

Understanding the challenges communities faced in delivering their projects
Recommendations from the programme

Insights for creative community projects, the community and arts sectors, and funders
Understanding the evaluation approach

Find out how the Creative Civic Change programme was evaluated
An artist’s view

Explore artist Heather Peak Morison's visualisation of the Creative Civic Change programme

Creative Civic Change projects

Read more about the unique journeys of the areas that participated in the programme:

Making Union Street a place the whole world loves again

Nudge Community Builders in Plymouth, Devon
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Two communities united to bring joy and create change

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, Birmingham
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Working across generations and cultures to champion Creative Civic Change

Tilting the Mirror in Peckham, London
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Creative activities and events led by local residents

Good Stuff in St Leonards, East Sussex
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A PAR-teee to bring people together and support emerging talent

The PAR-teee in Par Bay, Cornwall
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Arts and culture growing local pride, happiness and confidence

ReMake in Grimsby, Lincolnshire
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Restoring and strengthening communities in Corby

Creative Kingswood and Hazel Leys, Corby
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Changing lives for the better

The Portland Inn Project, Stoke-on-Trent
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Celebrating local community through learning and connection

Whitley Bay Carnival, Whitley Bay Big Local and Salto Arts in Whitley Bay, Northumberland

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Towards a community-led, connected, playful and proud parish

Greater Creative in Blackwell Parish, Derbyshire
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How arts and culture can change a community for the better

Creative West End, Morecambe
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Giving local people a voice, confidence and opportunities

Kensington Vision from Kensington, Liverpool
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Building a local community to be proud of

Creative Newington in Ramsgate, Kent
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Building platforms for ideas, talent and diverse voices in the community

Urban by Nature in Walthamstow, London
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Transforming Knowle West’s community into a creative hotspot

Filwood Fantastic in Knowle West, Bristol
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Learning from Creative Civic Change

research
Growing through the storm

In a year like no other 15 communities used creativity to overcome...
Coronavirus Culture and creativity
research
Pitching in: Lessons on sharing power from Creative Civic...

Pitching In looks at how community leadership is happening in practice; what...
Power and leadership
research
Preparing the ground

Learning from the first year of Creative Civic Change
Culture and creativity

Partners