About us
The Creativity Centre Ltd is run by Dr Marilyn Fryer and Caroline Bolingbroke with help from an international team of associates.
Dr Marilyn Fryer
BA (Hons) GradCertEd PhD C.Psychol. AFBPsS FRSA
Dr Marilyn Fryer
BA (Hons) GradCertEd PhD C.Psychol. AFBPsS FRSA
Caroline Bolingbroke
BA (Hons) PGDip
As well as undertaking consultancy for national organisations, government bodies and universities, Marilyn enjoys evaluating creative projects and events and writing learning resources. She is particularly interested in the creative contribution of diverse cultural groups to organisational success.
Marilyn has a long track record of international research and keynote presentations - in the USA, Asia, Eastern and Western Europe. For example, she spoke about creative education in the UK at the Opening of the Nobel Prize Centennial Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and as part of the Torrance Lecture Series (Georgia, USA) at the invitation of Dr E Paul Torrance.
She has acted as a consultant to the Qualifications & Curriculum Authority (QCA) on programmes designed to develop creativity and on guidelines for teachers on creativity across the curriculum - as part of the QCA’s initiative, ‘Creativity: find it; promote it’.
Before this, she undertook consultancy for the UK’s National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education (NACCCE) report, ‘All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education’.
Along with her international publications and research activities, Marilyn has taken part in various TV and radio interviews (USA, Malaysia, UK) and has acted as a ‘creativity expert’ in programmes about creative education in the UK.
Caroline Bolingbroke
Caroline Bolingbroke is co-director of The Creativity Centre Ltd, providing research and consultancy services and developing learning and training resources. Caroline has been devising and delivering creativity development programmes for adults and young people for over 10 years. She often uses multi-media as an accessible way for people to get into the creative process, including video production, photography and website design.
In 2002 Caroline organised the first international Creativity & Cultural Diversity Conference in the UK, featuring international experts in creativity.
As Chief Executive of The Creativity Centre Educational Trust (CCET), Caroline is experienced in running creativity workshops and courses for teachers and educators, young people and community groups. At the CCET she set up the Science Alliance initiative, in which Primary school teachers learn how to deliver a school-based creativity, media and website programme tailored to the science curriculum.
Clients & partners
Our company, Creativity Centre Ltd, delivers a whole range of services aimed at enabling organisations to be more innovative, enterprising and creative.
We work with large and small organisations, national and local and government departments, social enterprises, charities and universities. Our clients include:
NESTA (The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts)
ATL (Yorkshire) Centre for Enterprise
The Barefoot Project in Plymouth
Bradford City Council
Leeds City Council
LSCWY (The Learning & Skills Council West Yorkshire)
HEA (The Higher Education Academy)
The University of Huddersfield
The Open University
The SAW charity (Science, Art & Writing)
Learning Through Landscapes
4Children
DfES (The Department for Education & Skills)
QCA (The Qualifications & Curriculum Authority
RSA (The Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturing & Commerce)
The Academy of Sciences, Malaysia.
Our charity, The Creativity Centre Educational Trust, works with the community, young people and their teachers. As well as running special projects such as the new Future Problem Solving Program International UK, we hold conferences and deliver workshops on creative education for teachers and young people.
Examples of our work include:
Science Alliance - a schools project for 8-11 year olds and their teachers in Brighton & Hove and Kirklees (funded by NESTA & Kirklees Education Authority and supported by, amongst others, The Hudawi Cultural Centre, Kirklees).
Mentoring two drama in education projects in Leeds primary schools (for CAPE UK’s CARA project) delivered by Alive & Kicking.
The production of Creativity & Cultural Diversity, an internationally authored book edited by Marilyn Fryer funded by Arts Council England (Yorkshire).
A residential workshop on creative education for London head teachers.
Various workshops on creative education and enterprise for teachers.
The focus of our work
We enable organisations to develop their creativity and become more innovative. This involves addressing the knowledge, skills and motivation of employees, managers and in-company trainers, together with the systems for ensuring effective creativity at work. This doesn't normally involve starting from scratch, since most people and organisations already have significant competences in creativity and innovation, but they're not always making best use of them – or there are gaps which need to be filled.
But we aim to do more than this. A key focus of our work is to enable all our clients to achieve a better understanding of what's involved in applied creativity, so that they can take charge of their own creativity development in the future.
We are also particularly aware of the valuable contributions that people from many different cultural groups and countries make to our understanding and practice of creativity and innovation. Yet their views are not as widely available as they need to be. This is why we chose Creativity & Cultural Diversity as the theme for our 2002 international conference. Since then, just about all the work we do reflects this important theme. We have published a book based on the Creativity & Cultural Diversity conference, which you can now buy direct from this website.
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