What is GRETB LCYP?
GRETB Local Creative Youth Partnership (GRETB LCYP) is an exciting new development for the region, as it seeks to create new opportunities for children and young people to explore their creativity. It also offers an opportunity to bring together key stakeholders to support initiatives that are truly youth-led. The GRETB LCYP offers an opportunity to embed creativity in the lives of young people who are in out- of-school contexts, including early years’ education and youth work settings. The GRETB region is a rich and diverse cultural area which includes a city, a vast rural population, the largest Gaeltacht area within an ETB and a number of offshore Islands.
The vision for the GRETB LCYP in Galway and Roscommon is ‘enabling children and young people to express their creativity and express themselves creatively’. The strategic goals and objectives set out in this plan are ambitious and we are confident they will lead to the realisation of this vision.
The essence of the GRETB LCYP initiative is that all activities, workshops, programmes and events are planned, designed, and led by young people. This will help to support and nurture youth creativity, creative experiences, creative skills, and creative leadership at a local level.
GRETB LCYP is part of Creative Youth, an initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme, whose key goal is to facilitate and grow the creative potential of every child and young person.
GRETB LCYP promotes several core values throughout all of their work. These include inclusivity, embracing diversity and equality, as well as engaging hard-to-reach children and young people.
GRETB LCYP aims to work in close partnership with local youth service providers and will follow a child and youth-led methodology in the design, delivery and evaluation of its programmes.
GRETB LCYP will operate in line with GRETB’s management, oversight and compliance functions. It is managed by a full-time Creative Youth Coordinator. It is funded under Pillar 1 Creative Youth of the Creative Ireland Programme, which aims to promote, implement, and sustain a learning ecosystem in which knowledge and creativity are equal partners in the formation of young people. GRETB LCYP will receive funding on an annual basis from the Department of Education under the Creative Ireland programme. Where funds allow, GRETB will also receive funding directly from Creative Ireland (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)
Youth Voice
The GRETB LCYP aims to respond to young people and children’s expressed needs through dialogue and research in line with Hub na nÓg – Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth’s, youth participation unit.