Youth Music will be sponsoring up to 18 places on the Clore Leadership course from June 2008. The sponsored places are aimed at experienced Managers and Project Leaders who run music projects with young people and work in the small to medium voluntary sector organisations. Applications are open to individuals living in England, particularly individuals from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities or those who work for BAME led organisations. This is because Youth Music recognises the value of a culturally diverse music sector. Competition is expected to be high. For more information about the scheme please refer to the following links http://www.youthmusic.org.uk/news/general.jsp?id=903 and http://www.youthmusic.org.uk/miscellaneous/clore_faq2008.jsp
Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture celebrations have so far attracted 3 million visitors. Tourist information centres have had more than 180,000 visitors, and seen enquiries grow by 70% on last year. The city has also hosted over 600 journalists, and more than 4,200 articles have been published in UK print media.
The Foundation for Sport and the Arts will be ceasing all its activities in March 2012 and no new applications for funding will be considered beyond March 2009. The Foundation was established in 1991 with money originally donated by Littlewoods and other football pools companies to a wide range of sporting and artistic causes, but its only source of income now is the interest generated by its reserves.
http://www.thefsa.net
The Museums Association has published a discussion paper to encourage museums to consider their social, environmental and economic sustainability. The paper proposes that not enough is currently being done to promote sustainability in the museums sector, and argues that museums may be more financially sustainable if they were to attempt to do less, but to do it better. Responses are invited from the museums sector and beyond.
http://www.museumsassociation.org/sustainability
Northern Rock Foundation is reopening its grants programme for culture and heritage projects in North East England and Cumbria. The new funding, worth £2m in 2008, will support performing arts, contemporary craft, design and new media, museum and heritage exhibitions, festivals and collaborations as well as professional training for people working in these areas. The first grants in the reopened programme will be made in July.
£30,000 of funding has been allocated by the Welsh Assembly Government to help the Hay Festival improve its environmental credentials. The cash will be used for the literature festival’s Greenprint Project to measure its ecological footprint, trial new site management methods and prepare a green toolkit with advice on transport, recycling, energy, water use and packaging. The Festival aims to achieve the new British Standard BS8901 for planning and managing sustainable events.