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Read about projects which have been supported by us: recently added ones appear below, but you can view more by selecting from the menu on the left.| Win a Day Less Ordinary! | |
| Arts Council England are offering you and a friend the chance to win a great Saturday out as part of the A Night Less Ordinary scheme. | |
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| Future Jobs Fund | |
| The Government plans to support at least 5,000 short-term job opportunities in the arts and cultural sectors for long-term unemployed young people. While the Future Jobs Fund is still in development, the Arts Council has agreed to work with the DCMS and the Department for Work and Pensions to explore how arts organisations can access it, and to ensure that the scheme is the best it can be for the arts. You can download a briefing note about the work here. This briefing sets out the high-level information about the initiative that we have so far. As work develops and detail is confirmed we will update this and continue to share it with you. | |
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| Step Up | |
| Is an exciting new project that aims to put young people in control of the creation and production of performance for outdoor festivals and events. The project is being managed by circus and event production specialists Cirque Bijou, in partnership with Bristol City Council and South Gloucestershire Council. | |
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| National Engagement Campaign | |
| New research report available - June 2009 A workshop held in Birmingham on 13 May 2009 brought together members of the public and arts professionals to discuss and generate ideas for the national engagement campaign. The workshop was facilitated by an independent research agency, Community Research, on behalf of Arts Council England. Click on the link below to read a full report by Community Research on the workshop findings. Download full report [PDF 385.6 KB] National engagement campaign Over the period 2008-11 the Arts Council will develop and deliver an ambitious national campaign to encourage the broadest range of people across England to enjoy artistic experiences. It aims to:
At the heart of this drive is the creation of a campaign and an arts ‘brand’ under which arts organisations can position themselves and the opportunities that they offer. The brand will act as a trusted guide to the arts for people who have little or no current engagement with the arts, empowering and giving them confidence to seek out arts opportunities. | |
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| Turning Point Network | |
| A national network, for a stronger visual arts. Arts Council England is working with a range of partners across England to establish the Turning Point network, a national network of regional visual arts groups made up of individual artists, independents, and organisations who share a stake in the future development of the visual arts sector. This is a pilot project. It aims to test approaches to partnership working and collaboration, and to identify how a national network can help to achieve Turning Point’s mission: to strengthen the visual arts. Background and context Published in 2006, Turning Point is a 10-year strategy for the visual arts in England. It was the final outcome of the Visual Arts Review, the largest ever review of its kind, and was written in consultation with leaders of the visual arts, up and down the country. Turning Point recognises a vibrant, talented and dynamic visual arts sector that has experienced significant growth since the mid-nineties. It also sets out a number of ways the sector can develop further. Since the strategy was published, Arts Council England and its partners have been preparing the best possible environment for the full realisation of the Turning Point mission: to strengthen the visual arts. As part of this process people working in the visual arts, across the country, have been coming together to form regional visual arts groups with a view to defining and delivering a shared vision for growth and change. Crucially, this constellation of groups connects up to form the national Turning Point Network: an ecology of mutually dependant partners cooperating locally, regionally, nationally and internationally for the benefit of artists, arts organisations and audiences, present and future. | |
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On 29 April 2006, a heliosphere descended on Lyme Regis to celebrate the launch of the arts strategy for the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. Photo: Jim Wileman