The Cultural Alliance: Tailored arts-based learning for three inner-city primary schools

In September 2024 we, Trinity Community Arts, launched the ‘Cultural Alliance’, a two-year tailored arts-based learning programme delivered in partnership with three Bristol inner-city primary schools, Easton CE Primary, St Nicholas of Tolentine and Hannah More Primary.

This new programme, is a first of its kind in the local area and has been co-designed to meet the needs of each school.

The primary schools in the Alliance are based within a half-mile radius of the Trinity Centre with many of the children who attend facing challenges due to health, learning needs, and socioeconomic factors.

The Alliance has been developed via initial seed funding from Van Neste Foundation and Nisbet Trust secured in 2023 to test and refine the programme through free-to-access arts-based provision for primary-aged children that included Forest School activities as well as embedding a dance programme, World in a Box, in partner schools.

Building on learning from these pilot activities, the launch of the Cultural Alliance in September 2024 has now been made possible through a two-year grant from Paul Hamlyn Foundation marking a significant step forward in local investment in children's access to arts and culture.

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