CapeUK, in partnership with the Arts Council, Trinity Guildhall and Canon, is the agency responsible for the regional training and networking of the young people's Arts Award in the Yorkshire & Humber region.

This groundbreaking initiative involved almost 150 schools from all over the country and has given teachers the opportunity to work with creative professionals to develop their pupils' creativity.

Following on from the success of the Creativity Action Research Awards (CARA) project in 2005, CapeUK are delighted to announce a second round of CARA - CARA 2!

CapeUK was commissioned by Arts Council, England - Yorkshire, Creative Partnerships, Yorkshire Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and the University of Leeds, to conduct research to ascertain the extent to which cultural and creative organisations in the Yorkshire region are equipped to contribute to an agenda of �cultural entitlement' in Yorkshire schools.

This project is being run in partnership with AiS [Artists in Schools; Bolton, Bury and Rochdale] and is funded by the Gulkenkian Foundation.

A three part series of "think pieces"

An accessible booklet on the use of on-line radio in schools.

The EQUAL programme is a national initiative funded through European Social Funding. It aims to overcome the inequalities faced by people working, or wishing to work in the cultural sector through a range of initiatives, including improving access to a programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Film FX is a project which is part-financed from European Social Funds. It works with targeted individuals who are least likely to participate in learning, offering them a new context for re-engagement into education and the benefits of lifelong learning.

Developed by Brazilian director, Augusto Boal, and based, in part, on the teachings of Paulo Freire, Forum Theatre is a specific body of techniques designed to teach people how to take an active role in their community. This could be through their local government, or through directly finding solutions to a problem in their particular community, whether it be environmental, social, political or economic. Recognized by the United Nations through UNESCO as an official "tool for social change", Forum Theatre is an enormously beneficial and useful bank of innovative techniques. It has been used all over the world to influence legislation and encourage the building of more civil societies.

CapeUK plays a lead role in the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's Musical Futures project which is seeking to devise (in partnership with Youth Music and the DfES Innovation Unit) new and imaginative ways of engaging young people in music activities.

An innovative approach to developing teachers and artists professionally.

The Of This Planet (OTP) project is working in partnership with seven schools across Greater Manchester to create and develop innovative practice around race and education.

Funding support from the LSC Co-financing Theme Chest E-Learning and ICT in the Community provided an opportunity for CapeUK to extend to young adults its work on the application of internet radio to creative learning.

CapeUK has been contracted to carry out the evaluation of The Reel Bollywood, a film and youth education project working with over 350 young people, to introduce them to the Bollywood genre and engage them in the creation of music, choreography, film and live performance.