Useful Contacts
In this section you will find useful contacts. It includes information such as where studio space is available, where to get legal advice, useful web address' and much more.
Click the links below to find out more information or scroll down the page.
Free on-line resource for volunteer fundraisers - how2fundraise.org
New guide on funding for the arts - The DCMS Arts Division
Want to get in touch with your Local Authority Arts Officer? - VAE
Lottery Funding - New joint website by all the Lottery Funders in the UK
Cropashot - An online resource for photographers
Art Quest - online legal advice for craftspeople & visual artists
Get Sorted - For your Youth Art Projects
Grants Online - Lastest funding information
Axis - Guide to Artists
Artsmatrix - CDP opportunities
Creative Portal - Provides support for people in the creative sector
a-n - The artist information company
Own It - Your Free Intellectual Property Resource Centre
Funding How to... Guides - Voluntary Arts England
Free on-line resource for volunteer fundraisers
how2fundraise.org is the most comprehensive, free on-line resource for the UK's 16 million volunteer fundraisers, from the Institute of Fundraising. There you can share what you know and get inspired by others. how2fundraise.org is made possible by the generous support of The Vodafone UK Foundation and The Office of the Third Sector.
To find out more go to http://www.how2fundraise.org
New guide on funding for the arts
The DCMS Arts Division has produced a new guide on funding for the arts.
It is intended to help artists and arts organisations navigate their way around the arts funding system and identify specific funding opportunities and is of particular relevance to organisations that are using the arts to address areas of social policy such as disability, criminal justice, cultural diversity and health.
The guide is available at http://www.culture.gov.uk
Want to get in touch with your Local Authority Arts Officer?
Voluntary Arts England now has a comprehensive list of the Officers in England on the regional webpages - just click on your region from the homepage at http://www.vaengland.org.uk and then click on the `arts officers` option.
There is a new joint website by all the Lottery Funders in the UK.
http://www.lotteryfunding.org.uk
The site will enable you to search for information on current funding programmes across the UK. A search will elp you to identify the best match for your project by asking the following questions: the location of the project; about you as an applicant; about the project itself; and about the amount of money you are applying for.
Telephone: 0845 275 0000.
An online resource centre that offers articles and tutorials covering conventional and digital photography. This site aims to promote creative thinking and help you develop skills in all areas of photographic imaging. http://www.cropashot.co.uk
Art Quest - Legal resources and free advice for artists
Artlaw contains an archive of over 300 legal related articles written by Henry Lydiate for Art Monthly magazine since its launch in 1976. It is available for free personal use.
http://www.artquest.org.uk/artlaw.htm
How to...get organised, sort the budget and go for funding for your youth arts project
A practical, easy to use, resourceful guide covering all you need to know to run a successful youth arts project, complimenting the Artsplan GET SORTED series of training courses, written by Ruth Jones, previously Director of Artswork.
"It's the best guide to preparing a project funding application that I've come across - whatever your experience." (Stephen Boyce, Heritage Lottery Fund)
£ 9.50. Order a copy of GET SORTED and receive a free copy of the Artsplan Guidelines “Access All Areas: disability and youth arts” by Michele Taylor. Developed in partnership with Dada-South these guidelines explore equal opportunities within youth arts, focussing on practical ways barriers to participation can be removed, encouraging more opportunities for young people with physical or learning impairments to be involved in youth arts projects.
Orders can be made on-line at http://www.artswork.org.uk/artsplan or by contacting the Artsplan Coordinator, Tel: 023 8063 0960, Fax: 023 8063 2949, Email artsplan@artswork.demon.co.uk
Grants Online provides the very latest information on grant funding opportunities from the European Union, UK Government, Lottery, Regional Grant Making Bodies and Grant Making Trusts: http://www.grantsonline.org.uk
A comprehensive online guide to artists practising in the UK: http://www.axisweb.org
Artsmatrix is the South West regional agency for the continuing professional development (CPD) of artists and creative people: http://www.artsmatrix.org.uk
CIDA provides support to individuals and businesses working, or looking to work, in the creative sector. Our clients range from artists, musicians and photographers to fast growing companies involved in every type of creative, cultural or digital activity imaginable: http://www.creativeportal.org.uk
a-n The Artist Information Company
Exposing the diversity and complexity of artists' practice, we're providing an inspiring critical space to research, analyse and debate contexts for practice now and in the future: http://www.a-n.co.uk
Own-It: Your Free Intellectual Property Resource Centre
Own It is a new service which offers free intellectual property advice for London's creative people.
Within your business or your practice, you've probably created a wealth of in-house ideas, designs, music, writing, images – in short, ‘intellectual property' - which can make you extra money, as long as you give it the proper legal protection. Own It will show you how: http://www.own-it.org/
Voluntary Arts England have created a new quick reference series of funding how to... guides.
Dealing with various topics which fall under the banner of funding, including How to...calculate your budget, How to...cost out your project and How to...get to grips with match funding, the guides are available to download from the VAE 'funding' page - just click on 'how to guides' in the left hand menu bar.
