Networks
Culture and Wellbeing - There is now an overwhelming body of evidence demonstrating that participation in the arts and access to a range of arts opportunities can dramatically improve health outcomes and increase wellbeing. By supplementing medicine and care, the arts can improve the health of people who experience mental or physical health problems. Engaging in the arts can promote prevention of disease and build wellbeing. The arts can improve healthcare environments and benefit staff retention and professional development.
TheArtGuide.co.uk - is a listings site specifically for contemporary visual art in the North West region and provides access to up-to-date information, including exhibitions, art fairs, artist book launches, exhibition previews, open studio days, talks, conferences and live art performances.
Creating Partnerships - an online resource designed to support creative collaboration between libraries, museums and the arts. It is aimed at middle and senior managers involved in developing and building strategic partnerships.
Street Style Surgery - a social enterprise organisation which works with socially disadvantaged children and young people in the UK to express themselves through fashion design and clothing.
MisterWhat - Find Companies, shops, firms
Equality Link Consultancy - a leading edge company specialising in disability equality and diversity training in the work place. We provide bespoke training, consultancy and auxiliary services to ensure that your service meets its legislative requirements and deliver service excellence at all levels.
wozzon - A website of what's going on throughout the UK.
http://www.henryscat.com/kidscrackcrime/ - will help young people become more aware of the Police Services, and hopefully create their own campaigns against anti-social behavior.
Private tuition - Use First Tutors to find a quality private tutor in your local area, anywhere across the UK.
Disability Lib - We are committed to confronting discrimination and disablism, and to securing the full and equal rights of disabled people. Disability LIB will provide disabled people's organisations (DPOs) with information, advice and support that will enable them to be more effective, and to play a full part in achieving these aims.
Tutorhunt - We provide a completely free service both tutors and students to locate each other.
MAP: Manchester's Multi-Agency Partnership for Disabled Children and Young People
Arts About Manchester have set up a Calendar of accessible events including information on subtitled and BSL interpreted events in Greater Manchester
CREATIVE Times - informal yet informative. It’s creative and it’s industrious. It brings together the diverse mix of businesses that comprise the creative industries and offers them advice, opportunities and everything they need to know in this fast-changing sector.
Webbytalents - a new website sharing for films made by or for people with disabilities across the world. It is also a new kind of platform at the crossroads between a social site and a site media designed to break down barriers for the world's disabled.
David Parrish - helps creative businesses to become even more successful by bringing together creative people (the T-Shirts) with smart business thinking (the Suits).
The Gio project will be providing information, advice, training and one-to-one support on issues such as sustainable funding and opportunities for earning income, developing long-term funding strategies, commissioning and tendering, organisational development, governance issues and crisis support
One Central Place - an online directory listing the profiles of voluntary and community sector (VCS) groups active throughout the city of Manchester, together with the details of organisations that support the work undertaken within the sector.
Workshop Network - a National Database of CRB approved workshop artists - Creative Arts Workshop Artists in Dance, Drama, Music and the Visual Arts
Ouch - Features, news and information that reflects what life is like as a disabled person
Young people's inclusion network- A space for young disabled people
Jobrapido - collects job vacancies from hundreds of different sources (job boards, recruiting agencies, corporate career sites, etc) and makes them accessible to job seekers in a single search
Bolton Arts Community - Accessible Art studios in Bolton
Sync is interested in the interplay between leadership and disability
Blank Media Collective - An artist collective that promotes creative practice from artists who are progressing in their career and those who are just starting out.
Uhad2bthere - The Disability Information Website - Everything you need, all in one place!
Creative Times - the UK's first trade journal for the creative industries. In addition, we publish the Manchester Creative Annual, designed to showcase the Creative Industries to businesses across the wider economy.
MyBestCanvas.com is a useful place where Artists Worldwide can register and show their art for free. It's an artists community where art works done in all media can be exhibited and promoted online.
Creative People - is a national network providing information, advice and guidance to support all those who work in arts and craft industries in making the most of their careers
The Tool Kit - an information resource for arts individuals and art groups in Manchester.
Artsnet Manchester - exists to enable people employed / interested in the arts to engage with the wider stategic issues.
CIDS - an interactive portal for Creative Industries in and around Manchester.
CAN - Community Arts North West, an arts development organisation working in partnership with the voluntary sector.
Culture in Trafford - We hope that this site will help to increase participation in culture and help to improve the profile of Trafford by attracting people to live, work and play in a Borough that is vibrant and exciting.
SMALLpond - An umbrella group that unites the artists’ studio groups of Salford and Manchester.
The Cumbrian Network - a hub for artists to exchange information, resources and action.
Stepping Stones - a project to help Manchester residents who are in receipt of a sickness related benefit to get back in to work.
The Good Gallery Guide - a guide to art galleries across the UK, with each featured gallery having their own 'mini-site'. These mini-sites contain detailed access information about the gallery, including a casual review by a disabled visitor (all of our galleries have been visited to ensure the accuracy of our information).
The North Manchester Camera Club - We meet every Friday, in room 7 at the Simpson Memorial Hall, Moston Lane, Moston, Manchester, M9 4LZ - Starting at 7.45pm till 10pm.
