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On 9 June I was invited to speak on a panel at the Some Other Way Forward (SOWF partnership) final legacy conference. SOWF is a project sponsored and supported by the South Bank and Bankside Cultural Quarter which aims to put young people at the heart of the arts as visitors, creators and advocates. The panel was chaired by Baroness Estelle Morris MP and included speakers from Southwark Council and the Imperial War Museum. There were about 140 delegates, from art directors and head teachers to young people who have taken part in an arts apprenticeship scheme called ‘Street Genius’. My contribution to the discussion centred on the key successes of Clapham Park Project’s partnership with SOWF. This partnership has helped to: - Raise the aspirations of young people and families from the NDC area
- Secure places for three young people from the Clapham Park area on the Street Genius apprenticeship scheme with the National Theatre and Tate Modern
- Bring arts projects to local community organisations
- Develop a way of working together which can be used for building new partnerships
The conference’s main message was for community organisations to maintain the trusted links they have established, because these links are the key to successful future collaborations. I felt very proud to have been part of this venture and I hope there will be more joint working in the future. A few of the projects we ran for SOWF
In 2007 SOWF commissioned CPP to host a large dome, which housed a number of workshops run by arts organisations, in the middle of the Clapham Park Estate. In March 2008 we were also asked to organise trips to the South Bank for local families as part of a research project to increase the number of residents visiting the South Bank. | Roz Thompson
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