Inspire's CLiP projects provide disadvantaged young people and adults with learning opportunities in the arts. 

The CLiP Consortium is a partnership of organisations committed to using creative activities as a tool for engaging disadvantaged young people and adults in learning, and providing training opportunities for people wishing to enter education, employment or training connected with the burgeoning arts and creative industries.

Inspire is a member of the CLiP Consortium, which is based in the East of England region.  The members of the consortium are

From the arts sector:

•·         Theatre Resource (lead partner), Chipping Ongar, Essex

•·         Inspire, Cambridge

•·         Momentum Arts, Cambridge

•·         Creative Arts East, Norwich

•·         Signals Media Arts, Colchester, Essex

•·         Suffolk Artlink, Halesworth, Suffolk

From the education sector:

•·         Anglia Ruskin University

•·         Norwich City College, Norwich

•·         Colchester Institute, Colchester, Essex

The arts organisations involved in CLiP are experienced in the delivery of high-quality, community arts-based learning opportunities within their respective disciplines.  This approach is ideally suited to work with groups and individuals who have fallen through the net of mainstream learning provision.  The partners from the education sector are able to offer strategic advice and guidance, and routes into higher level education and training for the young people involved in projects.

 Inspire's current CLiP projects are working with young people in Cambridgeshire aged 13 - 16 who are at-risk of becoming disengaged with education, training or work once they leave school.  We are using art-forms such as filmmaking, theatre, and visual art to help them discover their unique talents and explore options for their future progress.  We are working with both learning disabled and non-learning disabled young people, again in Huntingdonshire, Fenland and Peterborough.  We are very fortunate to have found enthusiastic partners in schools, who are working with us to deliver the projects.  This project is funded by the Learning and Skills Council and the European Social Fund.

CLiP...Past Projects

NEET 2008
In Spring and Summer 2008, our CLiP projects in Huntingdonshire, Fenland and Peterborough provided arts-based learning to young people aged 16 - 25 who were NEET (not in Education, Employment or Training).   The projects aimed to use arts activities to raise their confidence, self-esteem, and awareness of opportunities for training or work.  The projects were a great success, proving again how the arts can be a powerful tool for reimagining the world around us.  Many of the young people we worked with were inspired to take their lives in a new direction.  During these projects, we worked with learning disabled and non learning disabled young people.  These projects were funded by the Learning and Skills Council.

SKILLS FOR JOBS
Inspire ran a very rewarding Skills for Jobs project from October 2008 to March 2009.  We worked with jobless adults who were mental health service users or who had brain injuries.  We were fortunate to work in partnership with Red2Green on this project, who offered valuable support and expertise in helping people get back to work who have had a career break due to health problems.  We used theatre arts to help people explore the issues around their individual situations and develop confidence, self-esteem and pre-employment skills.  This project was funded by the Learning and Skills Council.