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Over 30 years of experience in providing impactful press campaigns for venues, national tours, and the West End.
Supporting individuals and organisations in the arts, cultural and charity sectors
I believe in the power of connection, in bringing authenticity to everything we do and in values-led transformation. I am curious about what makes people tick and aim to help them to bring their own strengths to bear in identifying solutions in this challenging world.
Whether you are looking for business support, coaching, mentoring, or content for your conference or publication, I might be able to help. With over 30 years experience in leadership, strategy development and managing challenge and organisational change, I am well placed to assist and ready to engage.
Mary-Helen Young is a senior consultant with over 25 years of experience in cultural management and cultural and night time strategy. She specialises in convening stakeholders to deliver interventions with mutual benefits across culture, businesses and SMEs, local high streets and town centres. This extends to bid writing and partnership development, with an extensive track record in the UK and EU. Mary-Helen has a strong track record in business case development and business planning, having written business strategies for Northern Stage, A Space Arts, Assembly Hall Theatre, and Coventry Transport Museum. Her work now focuses on alternative governance and funding models which enable more sustainable and inclusive cultural, community and night time uses for high streets and town/city centres across the UK. Services include:
- For Local Authorities: I develop strategies to secure the future of cultural and night time assets, infrastructure, and public spaces and devise new ways of thinking about sector support and investment.
- For Developers & Landowners: I help to integrate cultural and community uses that create long-term value and ensure project success.
- For Organisations & Communities: I develop partnerships, action plans and business plans which help access funding, increase local relevance and develop visions built on ideas and evidence.
I currently work with a selection of artists with ongoing critical support, advice, production, funding and marketing as required including Andrew Carnie, Maria Chevska, Gary Clough, Laura Daly, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Permindar Kaur, Alice Kettle, Gayle Ching Kwan, Charlie Murphy, Jonathan Parsons, Varvara Keidan Shavrova, Terry Smith, Susan Stockwell, Alia Syed, Emilia Telese and Stephen Turner and I support the organisation Portraits of Recovery. I have previous experience of working with a wide range of artists including Jordan Baseman, Frank Bowling, Anne Hardy, Hannah Maybank, Simon Faithfull, Hew Locke and Alex Frost, when I was Director of ArtSway.
