The happy museum
Tony Butler describes a project which is encouraging cultural institutions to respond to the challenge of nurturing community well…
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Creative evaluation
Meg Attwood explains how enlisting the help of evaluation consultants helped arts-based Community Interest Company Light Box gain…
Stepping out
Mean Feet Dance’s One Step Forward pilot project offered creative dance tasters, short courses and performance opportunities to…
Transition town
Transition initiatives help communities become stronger and happier and they are springing up all over the place. Hilary Jennings…
Tapping feet to the beat
Rebecca Taylor describes how the refreshing approach of a disability charity is leading its members to embrace the “cosmic dance…
Floating the boat
In the choppy waters of NHS reforms and government cuts, much is changing in the area of arts, health and wellbeing. Victoria Hume…
If you treasure it, measure it?
The wellbeing agenda is developing alongside a demand for evidence-based practice. Daniel Callcut explores what this means for art…
There’s magic in it
Theatre has the potential to create profound and lasting wellbeing in young people. Emily Hunka explains how GLYPT is making a dif…
One of a kind
Tom Andrews explains how an arts programme celebrating kindness has made a difference to the way primary schoolchildren feel and a…
Art on prescription
By collaborating with staff at local doctors’ surgeries, Dulwich Picture Gallery has found a sustainable channel for reaching ou…
Taxing gifts
The recent budget has propelled charitable giving and tax into the media spotlight. Mahmood Reza explains what it’s all abou…
Who’s using your personal data?
Roger Tomlinson treads carefully in the minefield of EU Privacy Directives and the so-called ‘UK cookie law’ which comes into…
Access is everything
Suzanne Bull makes the case for disabled access to be at the heart of music venues’ strategic plans – not an afterthought
Open doors
Across the UK and US the prison arts community is forming a transatlantic network. Becky Mer examines the ins and outs
One size fits one
Mary Paterson reflects on the different meanings of collaboration
Museums are from Mars
Claire Gulliver shares the experiences of a region-wide programme to build collaborations between artists and museums
An opportunity for adventure
Sherman Cymru recently underwent an 18-month redevelopment. Chris Ricketts describes how collaborative work opened new doors for t…
Commissioning by consortium
A new festival consortium producing outdoor arts for children has found that working in partnership yields benefits for all. Miran…
The future of collaboration
Following the closure of Creative Partnerships, Martin Heaney looks to new collaborative projects run by artists, to examine the l…
Splitting the risk
Annabel Turpin explains how a new partnership initiative is enabling three venues to provide a platform for emerging companies and…
Strength in numbers
This year’s British Dance Edition is hosted by eight partners, from all across London. Lise Smith describes their experiences of…
A tale of two halves
Annabelle Campbell and Andy Horn share their experiences of the partnership between the Crafts Council and Birmingham Museums and…
In harmony
The Royal Northern College of Music and Opera North have a long history of working together. Liz Rowley explains how the formalisa…
What matters most now
Lucy Cash and Becky Edmunds worked together on What If… festival in 2010 and Co-Curated What Matters at the Siobhan Davies Studi…
