Create Place (ACE & The Heritage Fund)

Create Place – The Placemaking and Co-Creation Cultural Leadership Programme has its own website at https://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/createplace/

 

CREATE PLACE Co-Creation & Placemaking (2019 – 2024) was funded by Arts Council England.  

CREATE PLACE in total supported

  • 98 creative and cultural professionals,
  • over 4480 contact hours
  • and 6018 of self-directed study/practice.

The core program supporting the development of cultural sector leaders was delivered through six cohorts between October 2020 and December 2022, with a final celebration event in January 2023.

This cohort programme supported

  • 79 creative and cultural professionals,
  • over 4366 contact hours
  • and 6018 of self-directed study/practice.

19 partner organisations took part in 114 hours oftrain-the-trainer coaching training.

Partner organisations delivered an estimated 474 hours of coaching as part of the live embedding projects.

The programme delivered, on average,

  • 22 hours of coaching per participant,
  • totalling 1,738 hours of coaching activity.

For our Create Place fellows, the programme led to new partnership working and the ability to secure investment and funding through collaborative working.

Many fellows reported a change in their level of confidence and leadership abilities.

A significant change was that participants viewed themselves as cultural leaders and change-makers in their organisations or within their local cultural ecology.

In summary, we could evidence that participants experienced significant personal change and growth through participating in the programme.

Our consortium partners felt that the area is now known for co-creation methods and that, especially for participants outside the area, that their perceptions of Stoke-on-Trent and Cheshire East were transformed through the Create Place programme.

There was a sense that for those living and working in the area, the programme provided them with the encouragement to stay as a result of seeing expanded horizons and opportunities on Cheshire East and Stoke-on-Trent.

I attach our full evaluation report, put together by our partner The Audience Agency,  and with that, the project has officially closed on 31 March 2023 and our next phase has begun.

With so many thanks to all who have accompanied us on our collective way, it takes so many, partners and fellows, to bring a programme such as this to life.

Our Full Evaluation Report can be downloaded at https://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/createplace/wp-content/blogs.dir/1786/files/sites/1786/2023/05/CreatePLaceEval.pdf

Create Place Heritage & Digital (2024 – 2028) is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund

The Co-Creation and Placemaking Programme for Heritage and Cultural Leaders

CREATE PLACE Heritage & Digital is a place-oriented leadership development initiative focussing on advancing leadership. The programme will involve executive-leadership training, roundtable challenges and 1:1 coaching to develop knowledge and provide new skills. It will cover a range of topics, including intangible heritage at risk, working with heritage trusts, digital skills, 100-year planning, strategic partnership work, heritage business models, tools for participatory governance, inclusion and access, executive coaching and participation in shaping buildings, stories, and intangibles.
Our website is at: 

https://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/createplace/