LCEP Lead Producer: Progress Blog
This is a blog space which will track the progress I make as the Lead Producer of the LCEP
New Beginnings...
In January of 2025 I was appointed as the Lead Producer for the LCEP in Lincolnshire. This was an opportunity for me to take up the challenge of delivering a powerful strategic service to support children and young people.
The post is managed by Lincolnshire Music Service and is funded through Arts Council England and will run until July 2026. The post technically affords 1 day a week of my time term time only. The job at hand however requires more than that and the time investment and commitment I am personally making to this endeavour exceeds this.
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I am a passionate advocate for the value, importance and significance of cultural and creative activity in the lives of children and have been since I returned to Lincolnshire in 2003.
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My early career in Lincolnshire was managing the Lincolnshire Schools Improvements Service's New Opportunities Arts project which delivered regular activities into clustered schools across the county. This was a programme I delivered and managed and eventually evolved into a subscription programme called the Arts Menu.
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Returning to take up a post to lead the Cultural Education Partnership feels very much like a return home.
Early Progress...
February 2025
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I first set out trying to establish the core principles and strategic ambitions for the LCEP. These were developed and framed by best practice examples I have observed across the UK and my own knowledge and expectation for Lincolnshire's needs and challenges.
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The work on setting up the Mission & Vision was an important step in beginning to define what an LCEP means for Lincolnshire and importantly this needed to be contextualised by what has been achieved and implanted elsewhere as well as balanced against what are the idiosyncrasies of living, working and learning in Lincolnshire.
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The strategy needed to heed what has happened before and what a future strategic vision might need to resemble as we build for success!
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A lot of my early work was spent reviewing the reports and research documents which are available in the research section of this site.
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The shape of things to come...?
In January of 2025 I was appointed as the Lead Producer for the LCEP in Lincolnshire. This was an opportunity for me to take up the challenge of delivering a powerful strategic service to support children and young people
