: The aim of the Bow Arts Trust (BAT) education programme is to: provide young people with exciting and creative opportunities, through partnerships at the National Curriculum and Out of School Hours level, and further and higher education levels. Notable partnership at the National Curriculum and Out of School Hours level is with St Paul's Way school (one the Specialist Art Schools in the Department for Education and Employment's (DfEE) Specialist Schools Programme). BAT is also represented on the School's Steering Board and was awarded their education contract in 1999 (previously managed by the Whitechapel Gallery). Notable partnership at the higher education level is with Chelsea School of Art in supporting their post-graduate programme. Bow Arts Trust has been particularly successful at embracing and supporting cultural diversity through its arts education programme. Bow Arts Trust was awarded an A4E grant of £59,000 by the Arts Council of England (ACE) in October 1998, for education work. The A4E grant has enabled BAT to bring together skills and creativity from across the organisation to ensure that the education programmes it delivers, The Nunnery gallery, and the experience and insight of the Bow Arts Trust artists who contribute to the education workshops, work in synergy to provide young people with a rich and accessible experience of the visual arts.