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.

Young Cultural Creators also enables each of the participating partner organisations to meet their service targets in an innovative and creative way.