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This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
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Through facilitating a person-centred, playful but reflective engagement with creativity we aim to support participants with diverse needs and interests to fulfil their potential for inspiration and transformation.We are artist- and community-led, committed to supporting the local and regional arts and rural ecology, and create a new vibrant landmark cultural space. Our first year has seen us provide innovative, inclusive creative workshops, many free or pay what you can, to over 500 people of all ages in the local area. Develop a volunteer programme that provides opportunities for intergenerational creativity and recognises the commitment of our volunteers by offering benefits that are led by their interests and needs. Become a member of the Shropshire Voluntary and Community Sector Assembly. Work with a number of local businesses and organisations to develop workshops including Moolah, Ellesmere Yard and Shropshire Love Nature Festival. Work with students from Manchester School of Architecture through a student-led initiative to develop a community-led design for our insulation and renovation project. Support a number of local and regional practitioners by providing work at recognised, recommended fair rates of pay and programming a huge range of future activities during the Spring and Summer using our funding from Arts Council England and the National Lottery. Register for Social Prescribing in Shropshire. Sign up to Shropshire Council’s Social Value Charter. Receive funding from Severn Trent Community Fund to renovate and insulate our studio space. Work closely with Community Resource Shropshire to support our compliance and fundraising. Develop a network across a range of other local, regional and national organisations to guide our development including QUBE(Oswestry), Arts Connection (Llanfylin and Wrexham), Arts Connect (West Midlands), AVOW (Wrexham), Hive (Shrewsbury), Marches Growth Hub Shropshire, VCSA Shropshire, Rural Arts (Yorkshire), Meadow Arts (Shropshire/Herefordshire), The Wysing, Haarlem, DASH, the Welshampton and Lyneal Parish Sustainability Working Group, MERZ Gallery. Send our director, Joseph Schneider, to become a volunteer board member (working in partnership with Meadow Arts) on the Cultural Compact, initiated by Shropshire Council, to develop projects that implement Vibrant Shropshire, the Cultural Strategy for Shropshire.
We provide activities for stakeholders of all ages from 5 to 95. We aim to be community-led, developing opportunities for co-production and feedback wherever possible. Our creative activities are person-centred, responding to each participants needs and interests, and have been developed through actively asking for and receiving responses and ideas from hundreds of local residents through regular posts on a number of social media community groups (e.g. Ellesmere Community News, Welshampton Village News, Bettisfield Village Voice, etc..) and through in-person conversations. We have also spoken to a great many local, regional and national organisations and individuals - Community Resource, Fizzgiggs, Shropshire Council, the Mayor of Ellesmere, QUBE, Arts Connection, Arts Connect, Rural Arts Yorkshire, The Wysing, Haarlem - in order to understand the particular challenges of involving people in a rural community. Both our co-directors are local residents and we are currently looking to recruit a third director from the local community that increases our diversity. We actively work with the owners of our partner Willenhall Way Caravan Park, Lin and Roger Edwards, in order to understand their needs and aims, as well as drawing on their knowledge about the local area where they have lived for generations as dairy farmers. We have actively sought feedback from all participants from our activities, including children, and will continue to do both in-person and through online surveys. As we develop our volunteer programme we would like to develop a regular meeting to discuss their opportunities and benefits they would like to have as part of their volunteering. We have ongoing conversations with DASH, Project Art Works and Outside In to discover more accessible co-production and assessment tools when working with participants with additional needs. We have been in touch with and are working with local primary and secondary schools to understand how to fill gaps in provision, in particular, in the wake of Covid, to support reconnection and recovery.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
20 September 2023
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Joseph Albert Schneider
Status: Director