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| Category: Arts Councils (5) National Arts Councils in the UK |
| Arts Council England Arts Council England with the natioanl office in London and offices in each regional area |
| Arts Council of Northern Ireland Arts Council for Northern Ireland, with the national office in Belfast |
| Arts Council Wales Main Offices in Cardiff, with 3 regional offices in South, West and North Wales |
| Scottish Arts Council Arts Council for Scotland, based in Edinbrugh |
| The Film Council The Film Council is the government backed lead agency for film in the UK, ensuring that economic, cultural and educational aspects of film are adequately represented at home and abroad. |
| Category: CPD & Training (2) Links to training organisations specialising in the arts |
| Creative Peop!e CreativePeople 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. |
| Services for Arts managers (SAM) The specialist book service for all those involved in arts management. |
| Category: Creative Industries (1) |
| Creative Industries Development Agency (CIDA) CIDA specialise in helping to strengthen the contribution of the creative industries sector to every sector of a global economy, regionally, nationally and internationally. They do this strategically, working with national, regional and local governments, and directly, providing business and professional development services for businesses and independent practitioners in the creative industries sector. |
| Category: Funders (8) Grant-making bodies, lottery distributors etc |
| Awards for All Combined lottery fund for small grants from Arts, Heritage, Sports and Community programmes up to £10,000 |
| Big Lottery Fund Every year the Big Lottery Fund gives out millions of pounds from the National Lottery to good causes. Money goes to community groups and to projects that improve health, education and the environment. Big is the largest lottery distributor in the UK, and has several different grant streams available. |
| Coalfields Regeneration Trust The Trust provides funding to not for profit and statutory organisations with the aim of regenerating coalfield communities. Its current funding focus is on supporting community regeneration; ensuring that the best possible learning facilities and resources are provided to coalfield communities; support for innovative and locally designed approaches to supporting people into work; and supporting the creation and development of social enterprises within coalfield communities. |
| European Youth Foundation The European Youth Foundation is an independent, international and non-governmental organisation dedicated to the positive development of children and young people throughout the world. To support its objectives the Foundation makes grants to international not for profit youth organisations and networks. |
| Fundraising consultants Action Planning was launched in 1990 and has grown rapidly to become one of the leading UK fundraising, management and recruitment consultants to charities and not-for profit organisations. |
| Government Funding A one-stop shop for information on all government grants available nationally and regionally |
| Heritage Lottery Fund The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) was set up by Parliament in 1994 to give grants to a wide range of projects involving the local, regional and national heritage of the United Kingdom. They distribute a share of the money raised by the National Lottery for Good Causes. This year, they will allocate around £255 million to projects in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Since 1994, the HLF has awarded £4 billion to more than 26,000 projects across the UK. |
| Waste Recycling Environmental Limited (WREN) WREN is a company limited by guarantee and a non-profit making Environmental Body (EB) registered to fund projects which are “eligible” under the Landfill Communities Fund. WREN receives the majority of its funding from the landfill tax levied by Waste Recycling Group. To be eligible projects need to be within 10 miles of a WREN landfill site. |
| Category: Government depts & organisations (16) Arts related national, regional and local government bodies |
| Arts & Humanities Research Council The Arts and Humanities Research Council supports research within a huge subject domain from traditional humanities subjects, such as history, modern languages and English literature, to the creative and performing arts. The AHRC funds research and postgraduate study within the UK's higher education institutions. In addition, on behalf of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, it provides funding for museums, galleries and collections that are based in, or attached to, higher education institutions in England. |
| Audit Commission The Audit Commission is an independent body responsible for ensuring that public money is spent economically, efficiently and effectively, to achieve high-quality local services for the public. Their work covers local government, health, housing, community safety and fire and rescue services. |
| Cabinet Office The Cabinet Office is at the centre of government, making government work better. This website brings together information from units in the Department. |
| Communities & Local Government Indicators The DCLG Local Government Performance site, providing information on all policy aspects of Best Value in England. |
| Culture, Media & Sports Select Committee The updated website of the Culture, Media & Sports Committee. Lots of information on this that and the other, plus an update on the Olympic Games. |
| DCMS DCMS is responsible for Government policy on the arts, sport, the National Lottery, tourism, libraries, museums and galleries, broadcasting, creative industries including film and the music industry, press freedom and regulation, licensing, gambling and the historic environment. It is the Department responsible for 2012 Olympic Games & Paralympic Games. DCMS is also responsible for the listing of historic buildings and scheduling of ancient monuments, the export licensing of cultural goods, the management of the Government Art Collection and for the Royal Parks Agency. |
| Dept of the Regions: LAA Partnerships and NIs The site lists all active partnerships and priorities for each LAA area |
| Directory of MPs An online resource listing standing MPs in Government |
| Improvement & Development Agency The IDeA works for local government improvement so councils can serve people and places better. They use experienced councillors and senior officers, known as peers, who support and challenge councils to improve themselves. They also enable councils to share good practice through the national Beacon Scheme and regional local government networks. The best ideas are published here on IDeA Knowledge. Their Leadership Academy programmes help councillors become better leaders who can balance the diverse demands of people living in the same community. The IDeA also promotes the development of local government’s management and workforce. They advise councils on improving customer service and value for money, and help councils work through local partnerships to tackle local priorities such as health, children’s services and economic development. The IDeA is owned by the Local Government Association and belongs to local government. |
| List of Constituencies and Members of Parliament List of Parliamentary consistuencies and standing MPs |
| Local Councils Directory Local Councils Directory |
| Local Government Association (LGA) The LGA exists to promote better local government. We work with and for our member authorities to realise a shared vision of local government that enables local people to shape a distinctive and better future for their locality and its communities. We aim to put local councils at the heart of the drive to improve public services and to work with government to ensure that the policy, legislative and financial context in which they operate, supports that objective. |
| National Assembly for Wales The Welsh Assembly Government is responsible for most of the issues of day-to-day concern to the people of Wales, including the economy, health, education, and local government. The role of the Welsh Assembly Government is to exercise functions devolved to it in order to: make decisions on matters which affect people’s daily lives; develop and implement policy; make subordinate legislation (eg regulations and statutory guidance) and propose Assembly Measures (Welsh laws). |
| NESTA NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts - a unique and independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative. We invest in early-stage companies, inform and shape policy, and deliver practical programmes that inspire others to solve the big challenges of the future. |
| Scottish Executive Parliament The official website of the Scottish Parliament, with founding principles are openness, accountability, the sharing of power and equal opportunities. These are at the heart of all our activities and we hope you find this website lives up to these principles. |
| Welsh Local Government Association The Welsh Local Government Association represents the interests of local authorities in Wales. |
| Category: National Arts & Culture Organisations (19) |
| Art Spider Website for Learning Disability Arts |
| Artswork (youth arts) Artswork is the national, independent youth arts development agency, committed to making a difference to the lives of young people at risk aged 12 – 25. For Artswork creative opportunities for young people, means participatory arts activities by and for young people, outside of schools and other formal education settings, and outside the demands of the national curriculum. Artswork sees its role as one of raising standards in youth arts work, and in increasing opportunities for young people, specifically those most at risk. Their unique approach is demonstrated through the range and strength of partnerships and pioneering work across the informal sector. |
| Breakthrough Arts Breakthrough Art is a community interest company that promotes positive mental health through the creative arts. |
| Cheif Leisure Officers Association (CLOA) CLOA is The Professional Association for Leaders in Culture & Leisure. CLOA is the Professional Association for strategic leaders involved in public sector cultural and leisure services. It works with central government and other national organisations to influence the development of national policies, lobby for positive change and provide a peer-support network. The organisation represents strategic managers in local authorities or non-profit distributing trusts and those working in associated areas such as health, education and social sectors, who are committed to the development of public sector culture and leisure. CLOA also coordinates the National Culture Forum, of which nalgao is a founder member, the body set up to unite the major professional organisations in the cultural sector on issues of common concern. |
| DEMOS (Think Tank) Demos is the think tank for 'everyday democracy'. Their aim is to put this idea into practice by working with organisations in ways that make them more effective and legitimate. They focus on six areas: public services; science and technology ; cities and public space; arts and culture; identity and global security. |
| English National Youth Arts Network (ENYAN) ENYAN is a membership body designed to create connections throughout the diverse youth arts sector at national, regional and grass roots levels. ENYAN aims to raise the profile and support for youth arts within England, and by doing so create more opportunities for the creative and personal development of young people, especially young people at risk. |
| Independent Theatre Council (ITC) The Independent Theatre Council is the management association and industry lead body for performing arts organisations and individuals working in the field of drama, dance, opera and music theatre, mime and physical theatre, circus, puppetry, street arts and mixed media. ITC members are based throughout the UK and work extensively both nationally and across the world producing some of the best new work in the performing arts today. |
| International Intelligence on Culture International Intelligence on Culture is an independent company specialising in policy analysis and intelligence; consultancy; research; project management; training and advisory services with an international dimension. |
| Museums, Libraries & Archives Council The MLA Partnership is government's agency for museums, galleries, libraries and archives. We deliver strategic leadership in England and in each of its regions and we collaborate with partners across the UK. Our research identifies good practice, which we use to promote improvement. We offer advice, support and resources to funding bodies and other groups to incentivise innovation. Our aim is to raise professional standards and champion better services for users and readers of all ages and backgrounds, whether residents or visitors. |
| nalgao Good Companion Guide nalgao's companion website, co-produced in partnership with Arts Council England. General information about local authority arts servioces and regional pages on arts. |
| National Association of Youth Theatres NAYT (National Association of Youth Theatres) supports the development of youth theatre and young people’s involvement in theatre through a professional programme of training, advocacy, information services and events. |
| National Campaign for the Arts (NCA) The NCA is the UK's only independent lobbying organisation representing all the arts. Its mission is to be the leading independent and UK-wide voice for the arts world in all its diversity. Its vision is that the value of the arts will be understood and recognised by government, and that the arts will be adequately resourced as a key element in our national culture. |
| National Foundation for Youth Music Youth Music works alongside the formal and community-based sectors to support music-making and training. Our funding complements music in the national curriculum by supporting activities held mainly outside of school hours and delivered by non-profit making organisations. Youth Music also aims to support wider aspects of music-making through funding training for music leaders, as well as working strategically to bring together partnership organisations from across the music, education and social sectors. |
| National Rural Touring Forum The National Rural Touring Forum represents a number of mainly rural touring schemes and rural arts development agencies, principally across England, that aim to help local people to promote high quality arts events and experiences in rural and other community venues. The organisation became formally constituted in 1997 and is a registered charity as well as a company limited by guarantee. NRTF became an Arts Council England Regularly Funded Organisation in 2004. The NRTF currently comprises of about 40 full touring scheme members and 13 associate members. |
| Refugee Week The purpose of Refugee Week is to deliver positive educational messages that counter fear, ignorance and negative stereotypes of refugees, through arts, cultural and educational events that celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK, and promote understanding about the reasons why people seek sanctuary. Refugee Week was first held in 1998, and was created in response to the increasingly negative perceptions of refugees and asylum seekers held by the general public in Britain. It remains the only UK-wide event that promotes the importance of sanctuary and the benefits it can bring to both refugees and host communities. During Refugee Week 2007, between 400 and 450 events took place across the UK, organised by charities, local government, small refugee community organisations, schools, churches, arts organisations, day centres, refugee umbrella networks, regional and national consortiums amongst many others. Refugee Week is a multi-agency project, managed by the Refugee Week Team that consists of the UK Coordinator for Refugee Week, Welsh and Scottish Co-ordinators and a small number of volunteers with specific skills. Different regions, areas and towns have their own Refugee Week Steering and Operational Groups that manage and coordinate Refugee Week activities in their areas. |
| Sound Sense (community music) Sound Sense is the UK development agency for community music. We promote the significance and value of community music, and assist the professional development of people practising and participating in it. |
| The Theatres Trust As the National Advisory Public Body for Theatres, The Theatres Trust works with commercial, public, subsidised and voluntary sectors to secure a sustainable future for theatre buildings. Our aim is to ensure that current and future generations have access to good quality theatres that reflect our rich cultural heritage and offer inspiring new environments in which to enjoy theatre. Providing leadership and strategic thinking, The Theatres Trust advises in planning, regeneration and development, architecture and design, heritage, and theatre. We enable better planning to secure, improve and achieve sustainability for new and existing theatre buildings and protect theatre use. |
| Theatrical Management Association The TMA is the UK’s major business association for organisations and companies including theatres and arts venues, involved professionally in the production and presentation of the performing arts. |
| Without Walls WITHOUT WALLS is a consortium of 7 of the UK's most significant street arts festivals: Greenwich + Docklands International Festival; Winchester Hat Fair; The Bristol Do; Brighton Festival; x.trax Manchester; Norfolk and Norwich Festival; Stockton International Riverside Festival. |
| Category: Other National Bodies (5) |
| Directory of Social Change Directory of Social Change (DSC) is the leading source of information and training to voluntary and community sectors worldwide. |
| Institute for Sports, Parks & Leisure (ISPAL) ISPAL (The Institute for Sport, Parks and Leisure) is the new, much needed professional membership body for a fast growing, buoyant industry. They were created by a merger of two previous bodies of repute, ILAM (The Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management) and NASD (The National Association of Sports Development). |
| Sustrans Sustrans is the UK's leading sustainable transport charity. Our vision is a world in which people choose to travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment. Every day we are working on practical, innovative ways of dealing with the transport challenges that affect us all. |
| The Management Centre The Management Centre (=mc) is the UK’s leading training and consultancy organisation working exclusively with not-for-profit organisations worldwide. They also run the National Arts Fundraising School. |
| Train timetables and enquiries Train timetables and other rail information |
| Category: Professional Arts organisations (9) |
| AN-artists Information company Supporting Contemparary Visual Arts. Many areas and information liks |
| Arts & Business Through 12 regional offices, Arts & Business acts as a crucible where businesses and arts organisations come together to create partnerships to benefit themselves and the community at large. Each A&B region runs A&B programmes and services, to bring together the arts and business communities locally. |
| Arts Marketing Association The AMA is the professional development body open to all arts professionals passionate about bringing arts and audiences together in the UK and internationally. |
| Arts Professional Arts Management Magazine site with many features including podcasts. |
| Arts Research Digest Arts Research Digest provides a unique overview of recent and current research in the arts, media and cultural sectors around the world. It offers a vital information resource for arts managers, arts practitioners, arts organisations, policy makers, academics, consultants, researchers and funders. |
| Axis Arts Axis is the one of the best online resources for information about contemporary art. The website features profiles of professional artists and curators, interviews, discussions, art news, debates and showcases the artists to watch. |
| Independent Street Arts Network ISAN is an independent group of presenters and promoters of street arts throughout the UK working to develop the art form through networking, information, collaboration, lobbying, training and advocacy. |
| MAiLOUT Magazine MAiLOUTis the only national magazine featuring and celebrating all aspects of participatory and community arts. It started 14 years ago in the Midlands before 'going nationwide' in 1991, with a new issue every two months. |
| STADT Arts (European Culture) STADTart was founded in 1991 by Ralf Ebert and Dr. Friedrich Gnad. Our team develops ideas, solutions and strategies within the triangle of CityRegion - Culture - Planning and cooperates with other planning consultancies throughout Europe. |
| Category: Public Art (2) |
| ixia (public arts think tank) ixia is the public art think tank - it provides guidance on the role of art in the public realm, in response to restrictive practices. These have resulted in missed opportunities and have limited the scope of artists. ixia works with artists, policy makers and implementers within the public and private sectors. It carries out research, supports events and delivers training, and commissions new writing and publications. ixia is a charity and is funded by Arts Council England. |
| Public Art South West Public Art South West is a development agency which takes a leading role in co-ordinating a range of strategies for public art development in the South West. It is funded by Arts Council England. Public Art South West works in partnership with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors. We welcome collaborations and work closely with artists, architects, developers, local authorities and all those concerned with the quality of our environment. We aim to create opportunities for artists and craftspeople to contribute to the built and natural environment, through initiating and supporting projects which encourage quality and innovation in regard to the concept, context and medium used. |
| Category: Voluntary Arts Organisations (4) National umbrella bodies, artform organisations etc |
| Classical Music Home Page UK's largest online directory for classical music. |
| Voluntary Arts England Voluntary Arts England seeks to promote participation in the arts and crafts by supporting the development of the voluntary arts sector. We do this primarily by facilitating the development of a strong infrastructure, strategic thinking, and good practice across the sector. We are an initiative of the Voluntary Arts Network (VAN), which links us to similar bodies in Scotland, Ireland and Wales. |
| Voluntary Arts Network VAN works with policy makers, funders and politicians to improve the environment for everyone participating in the arts, and we provide information and training to those who participate in the voluntary arts sector. This includes over 300 national and regional umbrella bodies, and through them, their member groups of local voluntary arts practitioners. |
| Voluntary Arts Wales Voluntary Arts Wales is the Wales development agency for the participatory arts in Wales. We exist to promote and support participation in the arts as a force for personal development, community cohesion and fun. |
