I am thrilled to share with you the news that Collingwood Learning has been awarded a grant by the Arts Council, from the DCMS Cultural Recovery Fund. This is a huge boost to our organisation and that of our partners around the world. For me personally, it is a big endorsement of our mission
Lockdown in March didn’t come as a shock to us at Collingwood. We had planned to end our tour of Smashed Live early, safely bringing actors back from different parts of the UK, and closing our Yorkshire office well before anything was official. Thankfully, the whole team were fully conversant with Zoom due
Collingwood have this week received the wonderful news that we’ve been selected as finalists at the Growing Business Awards 2020 (https://growingbusinessawards.co.uk/finalists). We’ve been shortlisted for The Bridges Positive Impact Award, which recognises growing businesses that are demonstrating financial success while also driving meaningful positive change for people and/or the planet. For us this
Collingwood Learning is a truly international family. It’s not solely the six-strong team at our Yorkshire HQ who bring our projects to life – quite literally – but a whole network of actors and freelance theatre teams, too. To give you an insight into the talent behind each scene, we want to introduce
After a few weeks in lockdown, beavering away and racking our brains for how best to respond to the rapidly changing situation we find ourselves in, Collingwood Learning are now delighted to be able to confirm FREE ACCESS TO ALL UK SCHOOLS to the Smashed Online e-learning programme. To find out more watch
Friday marked a very ‘different’ day in the history of Collingwood Learning, as we found ourselves doing things in ways we have never done before … It started with a team ‘zoom’ meeting which, as I’m sure is the same for many of you, has fast become a part of our daily routine
Following in our recent stream of successes and awards opportunities, we are really pleased to have also been shortlisted in the Federation of Small Businesses Awards for International Business of the Year! The awards recognise and celebrate the huge contribution that smaller businesses and the self-employed make to the UK. As innovators, economic
On Friday, we had to take the difficult decision to suspend our Smashed Project live tours across England and Northern Ireland, due to Coronavirus. With increasing concern from schools, who’d already begun prohibiting external visitors, as well as a duty of care to our own teams and their health, we felt we’d reached
The Collingwood Learning team certainly has plenty to celebrate this month! In addition to our recent shortlisting for two Education Resources Awards, our very own Lindsay Richards has been named as one of Yorkshire’s ‘42 under 42’. Business Insider’s annual listing of the 42 young businesspeople to watch over the coming year is
The Collingwood Learning team are delighted to announce that we’ve been shortlisted for a pair of Education Resources Awards for our work on the Smashed Project. We’re over the moon to be in the running in both the ‘Free Educational Resources’ and ‘Education Exporter of The Year’ categories. Inaugurated in 1997, this annual
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