Many arts organisations and artists have been grant funded to work with vulnerable groups. As social care and health budgets change to personal budgets where the individual decides where and what to spend their money on, the ways in which the arts need to be marketed and sold need to change accordingly. Instead of working [...]
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So, we launched the new site last October, set up a blog spot, I started writing loads of blogposts and… never posted them. Why? Fear. Of what, I’m not sure. That committing my thoughts to print was too permanent, that as I so often seem to be trying to figure things out for myself I [...]
New online resources The way councils and public sector bodies work with arts and other organisations is changing. Grant funding for projects is being replaced by commissioning and personal budgets. Eventus have produced an online guide for artists on how to understand and work with strategic commissioning http://www.eventus.org.uk/strategic-commissioning The guide ‘Strategic Commissioning: What Arts Organisations [...]
Wednesday 25th January 2012 3.00pm – 5.00pm Sorby House, Spital Hill, Sheffield S4 7LG Jointly organised by Sheffield Council Adult Social Care and Eventus Self-Directed Support (sometimes called personalisation) gives people in receipt of adult social care power to buy the services they want, rather than those centrally provided. There are opportunities for artists to [...]
Sheffield Telegraph’s popular My Favourite Things page recently featured Director Clare McManus http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/city_s_artistic_merits_1_4115804 City centre locations often feature strongly on the page, so it was a pleasure to be able to highlight some of the great community based creative and regeneration initiatives that are or have been taking place in Sheffield neighbourhoods. And despite being [...]
The Grants for Arts funding awarded to Broadacres Housing has enabled them to create a 2 year p/t creative engagement post. The post is based on the recommendations of our Art in Delivery report.
Strategic commissioning describes the way services are purchased by local authorities, NHS and other public sector agencies. In a national context of moving away from funding and towards commissioning, we have been working with Arts Council England Yorkshire to make sure that quality artists and arts organisations benefit from these changes. The R&D we’ve been [...]
Director Clare McManus has been swapping roles and engaging in someone else’s project as a member of the Crucible’s Sheffield Peoples Theatre’s opening production of ‘Lives in Art’. The 50+ cast is a wonderfully talented and diverse group of local people working with a cracking team of professionals. Just imagine if The Crucible had opened [...]
The research for the exhibitions- at The Workstation, Jessop West and shop windows on the Moor- showed that when asked if they wanted to see more positive images of older women in public places, 88.3% of respondents said ‘yes’, 9.5% of answered ‘no’ 2.7% respondents answered ‘maybe’. 50.2% of visitors – male and female, said [...]
We’re already receiving repeat booking for our Arts4Work programmes www.arts4work.org.uk and are excited to be working with such a talented group of artists. The programme enables us to continue to use the talents of experienced, quality artists in a new context. A4W artist Matt Black has been pulling on his wellies in his new role [...]