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The Campaign for Drawing's aim is simple: to encourage everyone to draw. Its annual showpiece, The Big Draw, proves that drawing can be a public activity as well as a private passion. Every October, 1000 venues across Britain, from large national institutions to village halls, join in to offer many thousands of people of all ages the chance to discover that drawing is enjoyable, liberating and at everyone's fingertips.

The Campaign takes its inspiration from the visionary Victorian artist and writer, John Ruskin. His mission was not to teach people to draw, but how to see. Each Big Draw season shows how drawing can open our eyes to our environment and heritage, encouraging us to think, invent and communicate. Drawing Inspiration Awards reward organisers who use The Big Draw to experiment, and to find activities that bring in new audiences and make connections with their collections, settings or wider communities.

The Power Drawing Professional Development programme launches this spring, providing a year-round platform for anyone interested in promoting drawing. Sign up now for the Big Draw Course in Cambridge on 22 May.

The Big Draw East: Drawing Things Together, kicked off the 2007 season with an epic, free celebration of drawing in twenty East London venues.

The Covent Garden Big Draw took its cue from the market's special place in London's history.

Families may like to try our three online drawing activities.