Current Projects
National Museums Liverpool commission in December 06 to design and develop a framework for evaluating children’s learning as they visit the new interactive children’s gallery, Big Art.
CAPE UK partnership in July 2006, commissioned by Community Media Association and DCMS to conduct national research into the knowledge and understanding of community radio to create new opportunities for regeneration , employment, learning, social cohesion and inclusion as well as cultural and creative expression.
Arts Council England, Yorkshire commission in June 2006 to design and build the regional infrastructure set out in Imagination for Life and Learning - the Early Years and Creativity Development Plan. Isaacs UK is building a network of creative practice and policy development focussed around four key areas: professional development; advocacy; capacity and resource building; sustainability; in order to put in place the building blocks for the sector to increase the quality and quantity of its practice, share (and contribute to) the same vision, and realign its growth to achieve more sustainable learning communities, and longer term outcomes.
Arts Council England, North West commission in April 02 to establish an Arts and Early Years Learning Network www.earlyarts.co.uk. Isaacs UK manages a virtual learning network to address many of the barriers to partnership and resource sharing within these sectors; a regional arts and early years online knowledge base providing managed information on current practice and practitioners; a Champions Group consisting of national and regional policy makers to ensure the lessons learnt are fed back into policy development; and a monthly e-bulletin to ensure the strategy is owned and developed by practitioners and that good practice is shared far and wide. 2002 onwards.
Yorkshire Culture, the regional cultural consortium, Board member and Director and associate member of Small size (European Network for the Dissemination of Performing Arts for Early Childhood), EUnetArt (European Network of Arts Organisations for Children and Young Poeple) EFAH (European Forum for Arts and Heritage) and ENCATC (European Network for Cultural Arts Training Centres). 2002 onwards.
Germination, Board member and Director - a national cultural production company dedicated to exploring networks of communication and celebrating diversity and integration for young people in partnership with key media and cultural stakeholders. 2005 onwards.