What is Culture Box Surrey?
Culture Box Surrey is the Local Cultural Education Partnership (LCEP) for the county of Surrey, led by Surrey Arts (Surrey County Council). LCEPs are local partnerships that help to promote cultural education for children and young people and develop better strategic working.
Our vision: Empowering all young people and those who work with them to be creative.
Our mission: Working together with young people, schools, community, arts and cultural organisations and others to facilitate a vibrant cultural offer that all children and young people can access.
Our Priorities:
- Building teacher confidence to deliver creative and cultural approaches to learning
- Activities that support mental health and wellbeing
- Pathways to careers in the creative, arts and cultural industries in Surrey (ages 11-18 and primary)
(Updated May 2024)
What does Culture Box Surrey do?
Culture Box Surrey works to bring cultural organisations and children and young people together.
We work strategically with our cultural partners to ensure we are an essential and sustainable feature of the cultural landscape in Surrey. This work includes sustainable governance, consultation with stakeholders, communication strategy, programme facilitation, project management and steering groups for the LCEP.
Since early 2019 Culture Box Surrey has been instrumental in drawing down substantial external funding, almost all of which has been, or will be, used for direct delivery of cultural learning in schools. View our current and recent projects here.
For more information and updates please read our news.
Who is Culture Box Surrey?
Culture Box Surrey is led by a steering group comprising headteachers, leaders of cultural provider organisations, Artswork (the ACE Bridge organisation for south-east England) and others. The development of Culture Box Surrey is being facilitated by Surrey Arts (part of Surrey County Council). Click here to find out more.