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.

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

Option 1 - For the Tendring Cultural Education Partnership to accept the 'Lets Craft' Activity Boxes and distribute following discussion with the Portfolio Holder to agreed groups supporting children and young people across Tendring.
Option 2 - To not accept the 'Lets Craft' Activity Boxes. This was rejected as the Tendring Cultural Education Partnership aims to raise the creative and cultural aspirations of all children and young people in Tendring. These free resources will enable children who would not normally have access to craft resources in the home to create and produce objects during May half term.
Decision agreed with Portfolio Concurrence dated 21st May 2024, a record of which has been kept on file.