Breadcrumb Home Resource Hub Energiser Fund Learning and Research Copy URL https://www.youthmusic.org.uk/resources/energiser-fund-learning-and-research Energiser Fund Learning and Research The Energiser Fund was created to celebrate and energise creative practice with 2-4-year-olds. Centring children’s voices, views, and lived experience, the fund is exploring co-design and participation in creative projects for early years. Copy URL https://www.youthmusic.org.uk/resources/energiser-fund-learning-and-research Energiser Fund Learning and Research The Energiser Fund was created to celebrate and energise creative practice with 2-4-year-olds. Centring children’s voices, views, and lived experience, the fund is exploring co-design and participation in creative projects for early years. Youth Music wants to bring about change in early years creativity. To generate excitement, greater understanding, and more equity for an age group that’s often marginalised and underestimated.The Energiser Fund is particularly keen to explore co-creation and participation with young children. Thinking about how we do it, what good looks like, what happens when we do it, and what we can learn from co-creating creative activities with 2-4-year-olds.Eleven organisations were awarded three-year grants to deliver creative programmes with 2-4-year-olds. Organisations regularly come together to network and reflect throughout the three years in a learning community, coordinated by Groundswell Arts our Energiser Fund learning partner. Our research questionOur Energiser research focus has been co-created with the learning community. What do we learn when exploring co-creation with children aged 2-4, their families, artists, practitioners and communities Energiser Fund Learning Community Led by the Groundswell Arts research team within this question we are also exploring: What is it? How do we do it? Why do it? And what happens when we do it? Co-creation is the term the community collectively chose as the best way to describe this work, preferring it to terms such as child voice, or codesign. Energiser research and learning Explore the latest research coming from the Energiser Fund. Energiser Year 1 Research Exploring creativity, curiosity and co-creation with 2–4-year-olds, this new Energiser Fund analysis shares learning from grassroots projects rethinking how young children, families and artists create together. Read more Exploring Co-creation Exploring how we understand, listen to, support, grow with, learn from, dance, sing, and create with young children. Read more Exchange session: Co-creation in Early Years Areflective and inspiring session designed for anyone working creatively with young children and passionate about centring their voices. Read more Prev Next Meet and get inspired by the Energiser Fund communityThe fund is supporting a diverse range of organisations, projects and creative practitioners. From theatres to nurseries, from music to photography, print-makers to curators with projects taking place across England from North Tyneside to Somerset. Find out more about each organisation on our case studies page. Meet The Community What the Energiser Fund community has been up to news Energiser Fund brings early years practitioners together Early years partners gathered in Corby to share ideas, explore creative practice and reflect together as part of the Energiser Fund’s collaborative learning programme. Read more news Celebrating one year of the Energiser Fund Early years practitioners, artists, and partners gathered at Bristol Old Vic to celebrate the first year of the Energiser Fund and share creative learning. Read more news Early Years Co-Creation with the Energiser Fund What happens when you let toddlers take the lead? Discover why early years creative work is radical, joyful and essential, in our latest Energiser Fund story. Read more news Being Energised by the Early Years It's time to invest in the creative power of our babies and toddlers. That's why we have launched our new Energiser Fund, to celebrate and energise creative practice with 2-4-year-olds. Read more news Groundswell Arts: Youth Music’s Energiser Fund Partner Read about the exciting Energiser Fund partnership between Groundswell Arts and Youth Music. This partnership marks our mission to shift perception and practice of Early Years creativity. Read more Prev Next
Energiser Year 1 Research Exploring creativity, curiosity and co-creation with 2–4-year-olds, this new Energiser Fund analysis shares learning from grassroots projects rethinking how young children, families and artists create together. Read more
Exploring Co-creation Exploring how we understand, listen to, support, grow with, learn from, dance, sing, and create with young children. Read more
Exchange session: Co-creation in Early Years Areflective and inspiring session designed for anyone working creatively with young children and passionate about centring their voices. Read more
news Energiser Fund brings early years practitioners together Early years partners gathered in Corby to share ideas, explore creative practice and reflect together as part of the Energiser Fund’s collaborative learning programme. Read more
news Celebrating one year of the Energiser Fund Early years practitioners, artists, and partners gathered at Bristol Old Vic to celebrate the first year of the Energiser Fund and share creative learning. Read more
news Early Years Co-Creation with the Energiser Fund What happens when you let toddlers take the lead? Discover why early years creative work is radical, joyful and essential, in our latest Energiser Fund story. Read more
news Being Energised by the Early Years It's time to invest in the creative power of our babies and toddlers. That's why we have launched our new Energiser Fund, to celebrate and energise creative practice with 2-4-year-olds. Read more
news Groundswell Arts: Youth Music’s Energiser Fund Partner Read about the exciting Energiser Fund partnership between Groundswell Arts and Youth Music. This partnership marks our mission to shift perception and practice of Early Years creativity. Read more
