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 to 18 and primary)
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 visit our news section.
Who is Culture Box Surrey?
Culture Box Surrey is led and facilitated by Surrey County Council's Surrey Arts. We work with a wide range of local arts practitioners and organisations, including Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs) that are based in Surrey.
Our partners
Culture Box Surrey works in partnership with schools, colleges, Surrey County Council Children’s Services, cultural and heritage organisations, the local authority and local government, organisations related to public health and criminal justice, funding bodies, and national and regional arts organisations.