Rick Bond explores how a health check can make your organisation stronger and more attractive to funders.
‘Sustainability’ is simply jargon for ‘staying alive’ (with an emphasis perhaps on the quality of life enjoyed). Staying alive means having a vision and aims that are relevant, inspiring and forward looking – especially in the eyes of your stakeholders. It also means demonstrating that you have the organisational capacity to achieve those aims. The act of ‘staying alive’ is therefore a primary focus for trustees.
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Bridget Edwards welcomes the Arts Alliance for artists working in the criminal justice system.
Rick Bond explores how a health check can make your organisation stronger and more attractive to funders.
Deborah Bestwick and Ben Evans welcome the opportunity to ensure that artistic diversity plays its part in excellence, in a continuing series of responses to the McMaster Review.
Ben Wohl traces the impact of networking in a rural area where the distances are great and support is hard to find.
Karen Cardy explores a way of building teamwork by entering the sound world of the Balinese gamelan.
As cost and efficiency savings move up the government agenda, Sukhy Johal MBE and Tim Bryan examine the value a collective approach can bring to the arts and the cultural sector at a regional level.
Mike Harris and Deirdre Figueiredo show how professional and personal development resulted from collaboration, interaction and shared interest between Craftspace and Viking Sewing Machines (VSM UK Ltd).
Lee Collins shows how working collaboratively has boosted the performing arts in Mid Wales.
Sylvia Dow shows how Scottish Widows has risen to the challenge of bringing the arts nto corporate setting.
There are dozens of models of arts-based corporate training springing up all over the UK. Here we look at a range of projects, each taking a different path and aiming to have a slightly different impact. Jenny Gillatt begins with a look at the benefits to an architectural practice of working creatively with a professional artist.