In the first of a new series, Tim Joss looks into the world of charities, social enterprises and voluntary and community organisations to find lessons and inspirations for the arts. Here he looks at an example of canny building management.

We start with an irony. Artists explore their inner world and what they find around them. They reach out for inspiration. They draw it in to make new work. And yet, arts organisations are not so good at this. The daily pressures leave little... more