Purpose

A report to Management Team was presented and
well received on 8th August 2023 which outlined that Royal Opera
House East had approached Tendring Cultural Education Partnership
(Tendring District Council) and offered a number of Craft Council
‘Let’s Craft’ creative packs for children and
young people who typically are unable to access these resources in
the home.
‘Let’s Craft’ is a national project led by the
Craft Council in partnership with Hobbycraft, it is a three-year
appeal to get 20,000 craft packs into the hands of children who
don’t usually have access to arts and craft supplies at home.
Royal Opera House East is the ‘Let’s Craft’
partner for the East of England.
It was agreed that with Portfolio Holder Concurrence, that the
Tendring Cultural Education Partnership could accept the 'Lets
Craft' Activity Boxes and disseminate to recipients across
Tendring.

Content

For the Tendring Cultural Education
Partnership (LCEP) to accept 500 ‘Let’s Craft’
activity boxes from Royal Opera House East and the Craft Council
and with Portfolio Holder agreement, to disseminate to children and
young people in Tendring in the following way:
-Year 5 Creative Careers Conference
-Care homes in Tendring
-Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service
-Community Voluntary Services Tendring