Call out to Midlands-based early years, creative and cultural organisations - we need your help!

Research into Early Years Creative & Cultural Provision in the Midlands - Mapping survey

 Arts Council England's Let’s Create Strategy 2020-2030 recognises the importance of early years and, through its various funding streams, already supports a range of activity for Early Years children (defined as children aged 0-5 years old) and their families. However, it also knows that access to culture and creativity remains unequal and that complex barriers to access and participation prevent some families from taking part at all.

 CREC has been commissioned by The Arts Council (Midlands region) to help it quickly consolidate what it knows about the current state of creative and cultural provision for Early Years children and their families in the Midlands so that it can take an informed approach to where and how it might target development work most effectively in the future. 

As the first part of our mapping process we are asking all organisations and individuals (early, creative and cultural) working in the Midlands region to complete this online survey.  

 The survey will take 5-10 minutes to complete depending on you how much early years creative and cultural work you have to share.

Please note that we are only gathering information on work taking place in the Midlands region -  we apologise if you work outside this region but we cannot capture and share that data. Please do help us though by sharing this survey with networks, organisations and individuals you know who may work in the region.

Should you have any questions or wish to provide any additional information about your practice/provision please email us via enquiries@crec.co.uk