About MADE

MADE is Manchester’s local cultural education partnership. We support educators by producing high quality and meaningful creative learning experiences, connecting young people to the arts in our city.

Our Vision

We want Manchester to become a beacon for creative education, where the arts add magic to life experiences and learning, for everyone. We want the city's young people to be engaged, confident and excited about creativity.

Our partnership

MADE is a collaboration between culture and education organisations from across Manchester, including art galleries, museums, theatres, schools, colleges and many more. We run participation projects and create learning resources to join the dots between education and culture.

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Our role

Help educators to...

  • Deliver a creative curriculum, enhancing learning.
  • Inspire new ways to learn and understand.
  • Collaborate and build their confidence with creativity.

Help young people to...

  • Develop skills in creativity for life.
  • Prepare for future jobs and opportunities.
  • Build confidence and wellbeing through creativity.

Our beliefs

Help young people to...

  • Develop skills in creativity for life
  • Prepare for future jobs and opportunities
  • Build confidence and wellbeing through creativity

Help educators to...

  • Deliver a creative curriculum, enhancing learning
  • Inspire new ways to learn and understand
  • Collaborate and build their confidence with creativity

Our beliefs

We believe in supporting young people to:

  • Develop skills in creativity for life.
  • Prepare for future jobs & opportunities.
  • Build confidence and wellbeing through creativity.

We believe in helping teachers to:

  • Deliver a creative curriculum.
  • Inspire new ways to learn & understand.
  • Collaborate and build their confidence with creativity.

Charitable objects

For the public benefit to promote the education of children and young people up to the age of 24 in Greater Manchester and its surrounding areas in the subjects of arts, culture and heritage in particular but not exclusively with a view to improving and enhancing:

  • skills, capacities and capabilities to enablethem to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals;
  • employability; and
  • good health and mental wellbeing
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