Cultural Education CPD and Networking Conference 2025
In response to feedback from our Creative and Cultural Champions Network, we are thrilled to host our first Cultural Education CPD and Networking Conference this year!
Event Details:
📅 Date: Thursday, 26th June 2025
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
📍 Location: Buckinghamshire New University, Queen Alexandra Rd, High Wycombe HP11 2JZ
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This exciting event will bring together national and local partners from the creative, cultural, heritage, and education sectors. Attendees can look forward to:
- Keynote speeches from industry leaders.
- CPD sessions to enhance professional development.
- Short talks on innovative practices.
- Networking opportunities to build valuable connections.
- Pre-bookable 1-2-1 consultations with various organisations.
Attendance Details:
- FREE for Creative and Cultural Champions Network Learn more about the network and how to join here. Those who join before 30th April 2026 can attend for free.
- Non-members: £50 per person.
Membership is now open to career leads, as we’re expanding efforts to help young people explore and pursue careers in the creative industries. Special sessions at the conference will support career leads in schools and kick-start this important work.
Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and grow with us!
We’ve curated an incredible lineup of sessions, with more to be announced soon, see who is confirmed below:
Keynote Speeches
The Journey and Future Vision of Young Creative Bucks CEP – Anahita Malek, YCB Trustee & BNU Senior Lecturer
What could the future of arts in schools look like?- Samantha Mathews – Director and Louise Campbell – School Partnerships Manager from the Artis Foundation
What does the Careers in the Creative Industries look like right now? – Samantha Hornsby – Co-Founder of the ERIC Careers App
More speakers to be confirmed soon!
Primary Education Breakout Room
Creative Curriculum in Primary Schools – Artis Foundation (CPD)
Bridging the Gap to get your class Writing – Roald Dahl Museum & Story Center (CPD)
Create and Sing with the Royal Opera and Ballet (CPD)
A History of Sound – Vache Baroque (CPD)
Empowering Primary Education Through Creative Careers – Artswork (Short Talk)
Secondary Education Breakout Room
How to use a creative method of learning and recalling BSL – as BSL becomes a national curriculum subject – Signdance Collective (CPD)
How careers leads can support students to find out more about the creative
industries and their pathways –
ERIC Careers App
(CPD)
Equipping students with an understanding of freelancing in the creative sector – Alison Grade, The Freelance Bible
(CPD)
Empowering your music curriculum through creativity for learning – Paul Guenault, Director, Bucks Music Trust
(CPD)
Listen Up & Listen In – Chiltern Arts
(Short Talk)
We are waiting on final confirmation from organisations providing further CPD sessions in this room. Keep an eye on this space for morn info soon!
SEND Breakout Room
This can be for anyone teaching students with special educational needs and/or disability
Supporting students with SEND – Artis Foundation – (CPD)
Creativity to aid thinking – practical strategies for an inclusive Curriculum – Aspire AP (CPD)
Cultural Education STINKS! – Collar & Cuffs Co (CPD)
Connecting through music: Helping students with anxiety and mental health difficulties to feel supported – Chiltern Music Therapy – (CPD)
Organisations available for 1-2-1 slots to discuss how you can work together
- Waddesdon Manor
- Bucks Archives
- Artswork
- Sign Dance Collective
- Vache Baroque
- Stowe House
- National Paralympic Heritage Trust
- Roald Dahl Museum & Story Centre
- Chiltern Arts
- Collar & Cuffs Co
- Harsha basu Paintings
- Wildwood Wonders Arts and Crafts
