Projects
Newid Diwylliant | Culture Change for Wales’ National Arts Companies
Newid Diwylliant | Culture Change is a new programme which aims to transform the organisations involved into organisations that are better equipped to attract and recruit people from the Global Majority and can provide inclusive workplaces and organisational culture. Newid Diwylliant | Culture Change also aims to make the Welsh arts sector more inclusive and appealing to people from the global majority by effective communication and engagement.
Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod - Communities of Wales
LIME have commissioned us as their Community Engagement Lead Producer to work on a 15 month collaborative project (running until July 2025) and funded by the Arts Council Wales National Lottery ‘Connect and Flourish’ programme. The project reflects Llangollen Eisteddfod’s rich heritage extending back to the founders’ unique innovation in 1947, and is aligned with the organisation’s objective of using the Arts to bring different peoples, cultures and communities together in a spirit of peace and friendship.
Powys Arts Strategy
PCC have commissioned Richie Turner Associates to undertake a review of current arts service provision in Powys, and work with PCC staff, Powys venues, the wider arts sector, and their communities to co-develop a new arts strategy and delivery plan. PCC most importantly want this new arts strategy to be led by, and co-produced, with the arts sector in Powys, and which supports and promotes their development plans, demonstrating how these align with and deliver against Powys County Council’s corporate plan which are to create a ‘Stronger, Fairer, Greener” county.
UK Arts Access Card
We were commissioned by the four UK arts councils and the British Film Institute to test the feasibility of establishing a UK wide arts access card.
The scheme will allow every disabled person in the UK to register with their access need. The Access Card (free to all disabled people) will then mean they can book tickets to an event at all UK arts centres and theatres and each individual box office system will recognise them and their specific access needs.
Resonate Festival: Coventry City of Culture
Reasonate Festival was the title of the University of Warwick’s Institute of Engagement’s year long response to Coventry’s City of Culture in 2022.
Working in partnership with Handheld Events (who programmed many of the Festival’s events) we supported the programming and created various filmed highlights of Reasonate’s final celebrations.
Illustration: Cooked Illustrations
Widening Engagement Phase 1
In September 2020 Arts Council of Wales and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales commissioned us to research why ‘disabled people attend the arts and visit museums less than non-disabled people’?
The COVID Pandemic severaly impacted our original methodology and timescales, but by mid-2021 we completed our first report and detailed findings. You can read our report (in various accessible formats) on their websites.
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales (English, Welsh and BSL)
Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru – Arts Council Wales (English, WElsh and Large Print and Easy Read)
Widening Engagement Phase 2
Arts Council Wales and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales have now asked us to devise a set of minimum standards for the services disabled people should receive from arts venues and museums. In addition, we are devising a kitemark scheme, that shows the level of accessible services an arts venue or museum is currently offering.
This research is nearly completed and should be published by June 2023.
Ransack Dance
We have helped Ransack with their business development plans including producing a new business plan and detailed operational financial planning.
The Successors of the Mandingue
We have helped The Successors of the Mandingue with their business development including a new business plan and detailed financial plans and a skills audit.
