Building on Rural Shift - Peak District Arts and Community Funding Workshop

12 to 4.30 Wednesday 11th December 2002
Agricultural Business Centre, Bakewell
Free to all, including lunch.

Aim
This workshop organised by Arts in The Peak with Littoral and other organisations will build on the Rural Shift conference 22/23rd October on the arts and rural social inclusion. It will help fund capacity for artists and arts organisations and interested voluntary sector groups to help them to use the arts to participate and deliver within the Peak District social inclusion programmes.

Method
A funding, advice and networking workshop in November using the very successful Derbyshire Dales CVS Derbyshire Dales Rural Community Council model from last May …

Nature of the Workshop
It is a resourcing workshop rather than purely funding. It is geared to bring Peak District social inclusion agencies and funders together with interested artists and arts organisations, and interested voluntary groups to help the arts deliver on rural social inclusion issues, thus building on the Rural Shift Conference. It is timed to occur on 11th December, six weeks after the Rural Shift Conference, at the time of year when people are really starting to think about funding applications for work in the next financial year.
The workshop works by people going to individual stalls, moving around every twenty minutes or so, rather than one funder after another addressing an audience. It is a model proven last May, and to help you gain a mind's picture, think of a university careers fair, with people moving from stall to stall and you've got the idea.
The funders invited would be a broader spectrum that a straightforward arts or voluntary sector funding workshop, and social inclusion organisations interested in the arts approach would be welcome in order to network with their arts confreres.

Costs - Free

To Register an Interest
Contact - Margie Stuckey, Arts Funding Workshop Adminstrator,
c/o Medway Centre, New Street, Bakewell DE45 IGT Tel: 01629 813638; Fax: 01629 815571; Email: mcca@freenetname.co.uk . Best to ring between 10am and 3pm Wednesday to Friday.