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The Cultural Hub was a consortium of cultural organisations and schools working together to create inspirational learning opportunities for young people, running from Autumn '05 to Summer '08.
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Downloads for further information:
An overview of the Bournemouth and Poole Cultural Hub
See the Hub themes, areas of programming, and list of partners involved in this overview
Cultural Hub arts/cultural partners
A brief description of the participating organisations
Project List - from Autumn '05 to Summer '08
A snap shot of all Bournemouth and Poole Hub projects including a brief description, partners involved and year groups worked with: Bournemouth and Poole Cultural Hub Project list
Images from the broad range of Hub projects
For more of an insight into the fantastic work being done, see our Hub gallery coming soon.
Evaluation
Cultural Hubs is being evaluated nationally by Hayton Associates. In the first instance, a baseline study was conducted: Cultural Hubs baseline report Followed by the evaluation report on the first year of Cultural Hubs 2005/06: Cultural Hubs Year 1 Executive Summary
The Cultural Hub brochure
At the start of 2007, we produced this document to share information about the Cultural Hub initiative, the exciting work that had taken place up to that point and celebrate the experiences of participants and partners: Cultural Hub brochure, and see this visual representation of the Hub.
 Cultural Hub Brochure  Hub connections
Cultural Hubs - background
Arts organisations, libraries, museums, archives and schools in Telford, Durham and Bournemouth & Poole are developing a cultural offer for children and young people through the Cultural Hubs programme.
Cultural Hubs was initiated by DCMS, and is managed in partnership by Arts Council England and MLA, with the aim of exploring models of providing a broad cultural offer for children and young people, at the heart of which is effective partnership working and joint-planning between the cultural and education sectors.
Programmes
Children, young people, teachers and cultural practitioners are all enthusiastic about their participation in Hubs, and all have identified learning and benefits from their engagement. In total, there were 8,525 opportunities for pupils to be involved in Hubs activity across the three areas in the first year.
One of the key elements of Cultural Hubs is that the overall themes and programme of work in each local area are jointly-planned and developed by all cultural partners and schools.
Projects are varied and could work to enhance the curriculum in school time, give pupils choice in out-of-hours opportunities or build capacity of artists and teachers through professional development. A range of cultural partners and schools often deliver projects together which have included:
- Suddenly the sky fell on me – Pupils from secondary and primary schools in Durham worked with writer Julie Ward and poet Subhadassi to create their own written response to a Seven Stories exhibition, as well as working with Illustrator Emma Dunphy to create a visual response
- www.hubalicious.org – Young people in Bournemouth and Poole have created an information and advice website for other young people interested in local arts opportunities and careers. The young people have worked with The Study Gallery, Activate Performing Arts and a number of web wizards along the way
- Artists in residence project – Telford Culture Zone have presented a unique opportunity to cultural partners, by establishing a cross-cultural artist in residence project, which helps to develop collaborative partnerships between organisations. DanceXchange placed a DaiR with Telford Libraries, the REP employed an actress to work with the Archives and CBSO placed a musician to work with the museums.
Uniquely, Cultural Hubs is enabling arts organisations to build sustained partnerships with other cultural organisations, creative practitioners and schools in a flexible and responsive way that promotes learning, organisational change and the adoption of new ways of working.
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