The aims of Young Cultural Creators are to:

• inspire young people to read and create
• encourage young people and their families to make greater, more confident use of libraries, museums, archives and galleries.
• develop the skills and awareness of those professionals taking part in the project.

Young Cultural Creators can enhance young people’s lives in a number of ways, including:

• educationally, by using art and story to stimulate wider reading, the development of improved writing skills and an understanding of creative process
• socially, by encouraging their access to, and creative interaction with, cultural resources, like libraries, museums, archives and galleries
• emotionally, by enabling direct engagement with powerful works of art and artefacts that may unlock their own unrealised ideas and feelings.