Membership Terms & Conditions
As a member of The City Classroom you are agreeing to work towards the goal of every child and young person, in Leicester(shire), thriving through a rich and adventurous cultural education - while committing to align projects to Arts Council England's Quality Principles and The City Classroom criteria and current priorities.
Membership Criteria
To become a member, you will need to be one of the following:
- A School or Multi Academy Trust (MAT)
- ACE National Portfolio Organisation
- Arts & Cultural Organisation with a Cultural Education Interest
- Recipient of Arts Council Funding within the past 24 months
- Artsmark Partner Organisation
- Arts Award Adviser
- Arts Award Supporter
On signing up to the membership you will need to provide an overview of your organisation, including an up to date testimonial of your work in relation to cultural education.
Member benefits
Member Benefits:
- Be part of a co-ordinated cultural education strategy in Leicester(shire)
- Benefit of city and county-wide marketing and coordination of cultural education activity
- Free attendance at events, special offers and priority bookings
- Regular e-bulletin with information, opportunities & advice about locally-based cultural education
- Use of The City Classroom brand on agreed and appropriate cultural education activity
- Participation in open meetings of the partnership
- Dedicated programme coordinator for The City Classroom
- Support with Arts Award and Artsmark
Additional benefits for Schools and Artists
- CPD, training and networking opportunities
- Access to high quality arts provision including Arts Award centres and support organisations
- Developed community of practice around place based learning
Communications and Data
- Communications – As part of your membership you will be signed up to receive updates, newsletters and promotions from The City Classroom. As this forms one of the benefits of your membership you will automatically be added to the relevant lists below:
- The City Classroom Newsletter
- School Activity Bulletin
- Menu of Activity (Postal)
- Members News
- The Mighty Creatives News
(It is possible for you to opt out of these options at any time by logging in to your members area on The City Classroom Website.)
- The City Classroom will retain member data for the duration of the membership term plus two years.
- We are required to share basic data, including name, role, organisation and postal address with current funders, The Mighty Creatives. This data will be stored in line with their data protection policy
Membership Fees and Payments
Memberships for cultural sector members will run annually from April – March. Memberships for schools will run between September - July.
Memberships submitted during the year will be charged for on a quarterly pro rata basis and an automatic renewal will be sent at the end of the term of agreement.
If you wish to terminate your membership you can do so in writing at any point during the year and your automatic membership renewal will stop. No monies will be returned for midterm cancellations.
All invoices and payments will be managed by the lead partner, The Spark Arts for Children.
The City Classroom Member Logo & Website Access
To promote The City Classroom initiative and further advocate for cultural education in Leicester(shire) all members are requested to display the 'Member' logo on their website. These logos will be circulated on signup and can be requested again by emailing admin@cityclassroom.org
With your membership comes an automatic login to your organisation's profile on www.cityclassroom.org.
This is a place for you to keep your profile up to date, change marketing preferences and upload activity. Plus, when available, you will have access to a member's area where The City Classroom will publish useful documents and resources for you to utilise.
Submitting Activity to The City Classroom
Member activity is key to The City Classroom's success. It provides a comprehensive and collaborative programme. We ask all arts and cultural organisations to submit activity that meets our priorities and provides a high quality cultural education offer.
All activity submissions must be made via the form on the website and evidence how your project meets the current priorities and project criteria of The City Classroom.
Current priorities for activity include:
- Partnerships with primary and SEN schools, plus alternative education, in Leicester and Leicestershire.
- High quality creative arts activity in schools, co-delivered by artists, underpinned by Arts Council England's Quality Principles.
- Promoting and delivering Arts Award and supporting Artsmark in schools.
- Outcomes evaluation, data and evidence - making and sharing the case using collective impact studies and tools.
Each activity should deliver against two or more of the key criteria for The City Classroom:
- Use of local cultural assets (people or places) to promote and deliver creative learning
- Delivered in, and across, curriculum areas and or enrichment activity
- Animates learning inside or outside of the classroom
- Builds sustainable partnerships between arts, culture, business, schools and communities
- All projects align with the Arts Council England Quality Principles.
The online submission form will request this information from you, it should be completed in full with as much detail as possible. The form will ask for the aims of your project, target ages, art forms, curriculum links, arts award delivery, method of evaluation plus a project summary for the online listing. This data will help us to report on and fairly represent high quality cultural education delivery in our area. Once you have completed the form it will be sent for approval by The City Classroom coordinator and where necessary the steering group.
Conditions of Approved Activity
- There is no deadline for general submissions as it is a rolling programme – activity should be submitted during the planning stage.
- All activity will be manually approved and you will be notified once your project has been approved, or contacted if further information is required.
- All images submitted must have the correct permissions and be clear of copyright.
- All approved school/education activity will appear online, if you are no longer recruiting schools your listing will still be displayed but will appear as sold out. It is your responsibility to update activity availability via your member login.
- Only school / education projects will be listed on the website. Submitted family learning activities will be promoted through print, social media and e-bulletins.
- A printed termly activity listing will be produced and distributed to schools. All activities which are submitted through the website will be eligible for this.
- Evaluation & Reporting
- To keep data consistent, we require a monitoring and evaluation form to be completed for each project.
- For all school-focused activity the Collective Outcomes Tool will need to be completed. This should be discussed with participating schools in advance of the project start date, so they are clear about the requirements.
- A number of projects will be selected to create in depth, quality case studies. This will
- present a diverse range of the projects supported by The City Classroom which will be profiled on our website.
- There is a guide available with more detail about our evaluating and monitoring processes, this, along with the report form will be circulated on submission of activity.
- The City Classroom Badge
- As a kite mark of quality, advocacy and promotion of The City Classroom we request all approved activity to use The City Classroom's 'Member' Logo on all communications, print and digital, related to the activity, demonstrating that it meets The City Classroom agenda.
- Where it is not possible to include the logo you can credit the brand using the following text: "Delivered by [your organisation name] as part of The City Classroom"
Other Information
The founder members and current steering group are The Spark Arts for Children (Lead Partner), Attenborough Arts Centre, Charnwood Arts, Leicester Print Workshop, Soft Touch Arts and The Mighty Creatives.
The Spark Arts for Children are the current lead partner with responsibility to manage the day to day running of the programme.
