When The Class Business Academy invited Helen Kenworthy to sponsor the Strategic Business Leader Award at The Class Business Awards 2026, it reflected the growing recognition of the partnership between The RYTC and Education Selection Box (ESB) within the sector.

Over the past year, the partnership has received independent recognition for its work, including being named SEND Provider of the Year 2026 by the Prestige Awards and Best Inclusive Creative Learning Partnership 2026 (Warwickshire) by the SME Awards. These awards were judged independently and recognised the partnership's approach to delivering inclusive creative learning opportunities for children with SEND.

Together, these achievements reflect a consistent focus on high-quality provision and on developing programmes that help children engage, build confidence, and access meaningful learning experiences

As inventor of the Creative Pathway Methodology; Of Course You Can!™, built "on one stubborn belief that no child is a lost cause, they're just waiting for the right doorway in, Helen knows that strategic leadership and Serving the Brilliantly Underestimated aren't in competition with each other."

The awards are the evidence. The team behind them is the reason.

Helen Kenworthy, Founder, RYTC & Education Selection Box shared: "We didn't set out to win awards. We set out to build somewhere children could feel safe enough to try. It turns out those two things aren't as far apart as we thought."

That same quality now has a new home: the Creative Clubs Collection

The same approach that has been recognised through the RYTC's awards and wider sector partnerships also underpins the RYTC's newest launch: the Creative Clubs Collection. From performing arts and games to circus skills and more, every club is built around the same principle that guides all of its provision.

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Children choose the adventure, and they explore it together. Along the way, they have opportunities to build confidence, develop new skills, and discover what they enjoy. Whether a child loves the spotlight or would rather practise juggling quietly in the corner, there's a club designed to help them feel welcome and take part.

Children in a Creative Clubs session

The Creative Clubs Collection has been built the same way everything else has: slowly, properly, and with an ear firmly to what children and families have actually asked for. It brings together:

• Performing arts clubs, for children who want a stage, however small
• Games-based clubs, for children who learn best through play and challenge
• Circus skills sessions, building balance, coordination and quiet, physical confidence
• Small, age-grouped sessions run by experienced, DBS-checked practitioners
• A calm, inclusive environment for SEND, home-educated and anxious learners

None of this is generic after-school filler. Every club sits inside the same Creative Pathway Methodology that underpins the RYTC's award-winning academic and creative provision, which means the same quality of thought that impressed the judges is exactly what's waiting for your child on a Tuesday afternoon.

Why the sector is paying attention now ?

It's worth pausing on why a Strategic Business Leader award sponsorship, of all things, has landed with a children's education provider. The truth is that quality, creative, child-centred provision doesn't happen by accident. It happens because someone is thinking three steps ahead: about governance, about safeguarding, about sustainability, about the difference between a nice idea and a resilient organisation that families can rely on for years, not months.

That's the thread connecting the sponsorship, the awards and the new Creative Clubs launch. Helen's approach has always been that strategic leadership isn't the opposite of warmth and creativity, it's what protects it. Every child who walks into a RYTC or ESB session benefits from decisions made months earlier, about training, safeguarding, curriculum links and quality assurance, that they will never see and were never meant to.

Places are limited, and the RYTC team has shared it would rather grow this properly than rush it.

Join the waiting list here to be first in line when the Creative Clubs Collection opens near you.