Young Cultural Creators is a programme which inspires young people's reading and creativity. It does this through partnerships between schools and cultural organisations, including libraries, museums and archives, working with writers and artists.

YCC was conceived by the London Libraries Development Agency and the Tate Gallery in 1999. Since then, projects have run throughout the UK and also internationally. Ten years later, projects are active in the South West and the East Midlands and YCC is currently part of MLA's Cultural Olympiad Programme.

In the years in which it has been in existence, YCC has become increasingly relevant to national and local agendas, particularly Change for Children: Every Child Matters and the Government's Cultural Offer.