Our work on storytelling draws from Vivian Gussin Paley's work around inclusion and involves children in dictating their stories and acting them out. We also incorporate a Peer Group education programme for older children training them as scribes and involving them in leading the acting out in foundation stage classrooms.

Designing and delivering creative ways of tackling various areas of the curriculum. Projects developed include Dramatic Mathematics, a programme that uses stories to bring maths to life for children from Nursery to KS2 and the Creative Approaches INSETs, supporting teachers in changing the way maths, literacy and history are taught in their classrooms.

Making Theatre Accessible...

Empowering pupils and their parents to face the challenges of transition...

For children, their parents and their teachers...

Our main work around transition involves primary and secondary pupils working together to create multi-art form performances that examine the issues they face moving from primary to secondary school. We also run programmes aimed at parents, exploring their thoughts on their child's transition into both primary and secondary school, and with teachers and settings, discovering ways we can strengthen the child's experience as they move from one to the other.

The final strand of our work incorporates our various Youth Theatre programmes for 9-16 year olds, our Parents and Teachers Drama Group and our yearly Theatre in Education programme that tours to schools, environment centres and community venues.

Trisha Lee Artistic Director of MakeBelieve Arts named as a social enterprise ambassador

Twenty-five social enterprise champions appointed to spread the word

There are 55,000 social enterprises in the UK, all of which are profit-making businesses which put the bulk of their profits towards social or environmental goals.

The new ambassadors will spread the word that social enterprise is an extremely practical solution to a wide range of social and environmental problems - as well as being a viable and fulfilling career choice.

The ambassadors were chosen after a thorough recruitment process, involving a variety of stake-holders and interviews across the country.

"Currently just one in four people know what social enterprise is, but this list of extremely successful and inspiring people will change that. Soon everyone will recognize that social enterprise is the business model for the 21st century."

The ambassadors are a key part of the Government's Social Enterprise Action Plan, which was launched by Gordon Brown.

Find out more: Social Enterprise Coalition

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