Connecting the Dots Between Culture and Education

About Camden Spark

We are Camden’s Cultural Education Partnership (CEP), an Arts Council England initiative to bring schools together to work in partnership with their local cultural organisations.

Starting in 2012 as the Camden Cultural Commissioning Model, we became an independent organisation in September 2015, and a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in March 2017, led strategically by a Board of Trustees drawn from the borough’s schools and cultural organisations, Music Service, Camden Council and Camden Learning.

We work closely with other sector support organisations to secure a strong cultural education offer for the borough’s children and young people, and actively engage in a network of over 100 LCEPs nationally.

All children and young people in Camden will benefit from a powerful cultural education and have equitable access to the fantastic creative assets of Camden and London

**Our Vision**

Our Aims

01. Access To Opportunities

For all children and young people in Camden to have access to a wide range of high quality cultural opportunities at all ages
02. Tools For Development

To enable children and young people in Camden to have the tools to develop personal, social and technical skills through creative participation
03. Careers in the Cultural Sector

To find ways of helping children and young people access opportunities to progress into a career in the creative and cultural industries
04. Collaboration

To enable schools and teachers to feel more confident collaborating and engaging with the cultural sector
05. Opportunities for Schools

To work with teachers and school leadership teams to help them to better understand how creative opportunities can support school priorities across the curriculum.
06. Connecting the Dots

To support the cultural sector to connect and collaborate with schools in the most effective way

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“Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities”

Article 31, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Our Board of Trustees

Richard Harrison

Chair of Trustees - Camden Spark
Programme Leader (UK and International Leadership Development Programmes) - UCL Centre for Education Leadership
Tina Ramdeen

Associate Director of Young People - Roundhouse
Ria Bartlett

Lead Producer - Onsite Learning Team - British Library
Rob Earrey

Deputy Chair of Trustees - Camden Spark
Headteacher - Fitzjohn’s Primary School
Amy McGann

Head of National Programmes - Royal Opera House
Deborah Rees

Head of Music Service
Zerritha Brown

Head of Culture - Camden Council
Danielle Tobin

Director of STEAM and Partnerships - Camden Learning