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A peronal development budget...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:17:13 GMT

The chance to take part in an innovative and exciting approach to capacity building. By offering personal budgets to organisations we are allowing you to completely design a capacity building training package that fully takes into account the individual needs of your organisation and the organisations which you support.

The application is available here or read on for more information.

Overview

Working with Capacitybuilders and the Department of Health, ACEVO is giving CEOs of infrastructure organisations a £2,000+ personal development budget to develop their ability to support third sector organisations working in the fields of health and social care.

What we are trying to do

We are offering personal development budgets to CEOs of third sector infrastructure organisations to enable them to help the third sector organisations they support to win business in the fields of health and social care - either by winning commissioned contracts or through attracting personal health and social care budget holders as part of the personalisation of health and social care

We envisage third sector infrastructure CEOs using their personal development budgets to meet this goal by:
� Developing a clearer understanding and increased knowledge of the health and social care environments and how they are changing (e.g. the personalisation agenda)
� Developing stronger relationships with key players in health and social care (e.g. leaders in the NHS, GP consortia and local government), and changing their behaviours and ways in which they interact with those players

How you can benefit

This year, we will be piloting this approach with 10 infrastructure organisation CEOs. We are inviting applications from infrastructure organisation CEOs, in the form of outline plans for how they would spend their budget (which will consist of at least £2,000). Those who are successful will then spend their budget on the contents of their plan and bill ACEVO as they spend that money. There will be minimal evaluation and bureaucracy: there will be an initial and follow up workshop in which plans can be refined and learning from this process can be shared.

Applying for your personal development budget

Applications will consist of a few details about your organisation, followed by some questions as how you would meet the goals mentioned above and a plan of how you would spend your personal development budget of £2,000 plus a top up from your own organisation.

These applications will be judged by the ACEVO staff responsible for administering ACEVO’s Capacitybuilders and Department of Health funding.
We will be looking for plans that demonstrate the following:
1. Clear thought as how the CEO will develop a better understanding of the health and social care environments and stronger relationships with key players in order to support third sector providers win business in the aforementioned fields
2. Real commitment to your development. We will be looking for you to top-up your £2,000 budget. Minimum top-ups (set out in the attached application form) will depend on the size of your organisation, and start at £400. Beyond the set out minimum levels of contribution the more you are prepared to contribute, the more likely we are to make our £2,000 contribution
3. Sustainable impact. We will be looking for plans which aim to develop your understanding or networks in the health and social acre arena in a sustainable way.

Your plan does not need to involve spending right up to your maximum budget, nor does it need to be Costed down to the last penny. What we are looking for is an outline of what you would spend the money on and with whom. If you are successful in being awarded the budget, over the course of the year we will be open to discussing with you changes to what you spend it on or your choice of providers.

The application can be downloaded here and the deadline is the 10th of August.

Completed forms should be emailed to daniel.hooper@Acevo.org.uk

Collector Relations Consultant wanted by Vane

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:24:35 GMT

deadline for tenders 5pm Monday 2 August 2010 to

Download the brief here

Designed and Made call for artists, makers and designers from the North East

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:01:17 GMT

to submit proposals for multiple objects that can be in included in their mobile exhibition and project; Love Me, Live With Me.

The project will be at London Design Week, Design Event and possible further afield in early 2011. The exhibition will be housed in contemporary showcasing on the back on an antique market barrow that moves around .

The concept is that we will distribute the objects to the general public and that they will live with them for a week before submitting their thoughts to a blog and handing the object on. These objects will pass around the country creating a map of their route and relationships with their temporary owners as they travel. We will collect them back at a given point and subject to funding create an exhibition/publication of the used objects and the comments they collected along the way.

This is not a precious project, it is an experiment; an opportunity to interact with our audience and to ask questions via objects.

We are looking for artists, makers and designers to submit proposals for objects that will change peoples lives in some small way for the week that they live with them in multiples between 10-1000.

These objects/proposals will be selected on the questions that they ask and the thoughts that they might provoke. We hope to receive proposals for objects that might change the temporary owners world in some small way for the week that they are in possession of them, an alarm clock that wakes us with poetry, rose tinted spectacles, linked wine goblets for two �.over to you. The more diverse and dynamic our selection of objects is the greater the project will be. We would like a mixture of functional and non functional objects.

Designed and Made will pay artists fees and fabrication/material costs.

For a full brief please e-mail us on info@designedandmade.co.uk or call 07977 201596 for an informal chat

The BIG ART AFFAIR are calling for submissions

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:48:31 GMT

The BIG Art Affair are calling for submissions for the UK’s Largest Artist Art Fair. It’s all happening in one of Londons most affluent areas only 10 minutes from Central London.

It is going to be the event of the centuary with a miriad of fantastic artists, photographers, illustrators and sculptors.There will be an educational section for families an amazing intetractive zone with live events happening through out the event, a sophisticated restaurant serving freshly cooked food a funky bar and a whole lot more.

We are now offering a NEW STAND PRICE as well as favourable payment terms.

Please join up on Facebook or twitter to be kept up to date with our very exciting event.

Alternatively please visitour website

Understanding Vocal Technique with Rebecca Pedlow, Teesside University

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:44:55 GMT

with Rebecca Pedlow, Teesside University

Throughout the Summer Teesside University’s School of Arts & Media is offering a series of highly subsidised workshops and courses to those working in the region’s creative industries.

Learn how the voice works and how to apply these techniques to your professional practices:
Understanding Vocal Technique is a one day workshop which explores how the human voice works and how an understanding of these principles can be applied to vocal performance and teaching. Singing teacher, performer and workshop leader Rebecca Pedlow will demonstrate the different capabilities of the voice, exploring such subjects as it’s physiology, different voices and what happens when a voice breaks. These theories will be applied through a series of practical sessions throughout the day.

Rebecca will focus on essential breathing and posture exercises and demonstrate how vocal warm ups relate to vocal technique. Variances in different styles of singing will be investigated as she demonstrates the different approaches to the likes of folk, pop, opera and musical theatre.

Find out about further training opportunities and how you can earn money from your skills:
The workshop will culminate in a careers and personal development session where delegates will be signposted to further training and potential job opportunities. Understanding Vocal Technique delegates will leave with an awareness of the skills they need to develop to become a better performer or teacher. The workshop is ideal for performers, singing teachers, instrumentalists, community musicians, school teachers/assistants or anyone wishing to be introduced to, or have more understanding of how the voice works.

One-off Highly subsidised price � Book your place now:
The Understanding Vocal Technique workshop takes place in Teesside University’s Phoenix Building on Saturday 21st August from 9.30am � 4.30pm. It is being subsidised by ECIF and Talent Solutions funding and is therefore offered at an introductory price of £49.99 (usually £170.00) to North East based SME businesses, freelancers and sole traders. Please call for eligibility information.

To book your place please contact James McDermott on 01642 738 089 or Email: samwfd@tees.ac.uk

help to shape the design of new creative workspace in the Tees Valley

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:28:58 GMT

Download details here

Contents May Vary Open call for submissions

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:22:12 GMT

Contents May Vary Issue 4 will take the form of a short-run printed puzzle book featuring artwork selected from an international open call: Work based on games and puzzles such as crosswords, word searches, anagrams, spot the difference, dot-to-dot, instructional games, visual games, postal games, trivia / quiz, number puzzles, etc. Curated by Alice Bradshaw.

What:

Work based on games and puzzles such as crosswords, word searches, anagrams, spot the difference, dot-to-dot, instructional games, visual games, postal games, trivia / quiz games, number puzzles, etc.
The final format will be a black and white printed publication comprised of selected games and puzzle based image/text. Artists should send print-ready files for review with the following details:
1. Title
2. Artist
3. Website / email for publicity
File format: jpg or tiff
Colour: black & white / greyscale only.
Size: A5 portrait at 300dpi (1754x2480 pixels / 148.5 x 210mm / 5.85 x 8.27 inches)

To apply: email 2D submissions to info@contentsmayvary.org (subject: Issue 4)

Multiples and limited editions: Artist multiples and limited edition submissions are also accepted. If you have an edition of 2D or 3D puzzles/games based work you would like to include as a supplement/insert to a number of publications, such as jigsaws, travel board games or prizes, please email info@contentsmayvary.org (subject: Issue 4 Multiples) detailing proposed works with supporting images and/or web links.

Online edition: Online and internet game based submissions are also being accepted for a special online edition. Please email info@contentsmayvary.org (subject: Issue 4 Online) with images/links to artworks with details including software and hosting requirements.
Deadline: 31st August 2010
website

The AA2A project opens for business

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:18:12 GMT

The AA2A project offers artists & designer makers the opportunity to undertake a
period of research or realise a project using art college facilities eg. workshops,
IT facilities, lending library, & lecture programme. AA2A schemes aim to benefit students and Colleges through their interaction with practising artists.

FOR FULL ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AND DETAILS OF HOW TO APPLY click here

Access is free, for at least 100 hours, between Oct 2010 and April 2011 and a materials/travel grant of £220 is usually available
Closing dates for applications vary but all are in September 2010
Applicants must have at least one years professional practice and should be able to work with minimal technical support
Artists on AA2A schemes run from 2007 to 2008 or before can now reapply. To read previous artists' stories
click here
AA2A particularly welcomes applications from applicants with disabilities, from culturally diverse backgrounds and non-graduates

APPLICATION PACKS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE DIRECTLY FROM THE COLLEGES TAKING PART

Welcome to the Renaissance North East E-Bulletin

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:05:37 GMT

News and Opportunities

Accreditation Support Grants for North East Museum
Funding is now available to support museums in achieving and maintaining MLA Accreditation. This funding is available until 30 September 2010.
Grants of up to £1,000 per organisation are available to museums in the North East, except Renaissance Hub Museums, in one of the following categories:
- Fully-Accredited and undertaking work to maintain Accredited status
- Provisionally-Accredited and working towards Full Accreditation
- Non-Accredited but actively working towards Accreditation following MLA confirmation of eligibility.
For more information, applications forms and guidance visit the Museum Development pages of the Renaissance North East website and download the documents from the Related Documents section.

Calling all Museum and Archive libraries with ‘Hidden’ Collections
Following the publication of Uncovering Hidden Resources, by the Research Information Network, Research Libraries UK is sponsoring a comprehensive survey to deliver:
- a nation wide review of where the UK stands in relation to ‘hidden’ collections
- moves to ensure that collections are exposed to a much larger audience.
The Hidden Collections survey is for all libraries, large and small, public, academic, in museums and archives, learned societies and historic houses with no records online.
The success of this survey will depend upon the comprehensiveness of the response. Many of you will have collections, large or small, which fall into this category. Please help to ensure that information from your library is included too.
Research Libraries UK has been working with The London Library to produce this survey and the outputs will be made publicly available. The survey can be completed online until 1 September 2010.
If you have any questions please get in touch with Mike Mertens, RLUK, mike.mertens@rluk.ac.uk or Dunia Garcia-Ontiveros, The London Library, dunia.garcia-ontiveros@londonlibrary.co.uk .

Events and Training

Finding and Winning Funding for NEET Group Activities
Tuesday 10 August, London Euston
£250 + Vat per person
Around 10% of young people in England and Wales are NEET � not in employment, education or training. In this workshop, participants will learn about the potential sources of funding for activities to support NEET groups; how to design projects that meet funding criteria; and how to put together a winning tender or funding proposal so they can help young people to reach their potential.
Anyone that wants to find and win funding for NEET group activities will find this workshop to be useful. Individuals may be delivering activities, managing activities or be responsible for finding income and funding for activities.
For more information and to book a place visit www.national-training.com.

Friends patrons volunteers: Making the most of your advocates
Thursday 23 September, Charity Centre, London
This one-day conference examines how best to work with supporters of your museums. Taken together, these different groups comprise a unique and invaluable resource, one which can be useful in many ways over and above the core goals of raising profile and fundraising. The day brings together diverse case studies and explains why and how they have been individually successful and of mutual benefit. It also looks at how to sustain such relationships through difficult times and what to do when things go wrong.
This conference is ideal for those responsible for volunteers, friends groups and patron schemes in museums and galleries and all staff with fundraising and museums development responsibilities.
For more information or to book a place visit here

Bootstrapping the web
Wednesday 22 September, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths & Museum, 10am - 4pm
Free
This North East Regional Museums Hub workshop will look at ways of building a web presence on a shoestring and is relevant to any staff working with the web to engage audiences with their museums.
The session will discuss:
- social media and how you can use it to increase audience engagement
- the various sources of information to work out "how you are doing", including Google Analytics, keyword tracking, Twitter searches, etc
- going where your users go � the best tips for working with sites like Facebook, Google, etc
- simple and cheap approaches for improving your online marketing, including Search Engine Optimisation
Please note that spaces are limited. For more information or to book your place, please email john.coburn@twmuseums.org.uk or phone (0191) 2369347.

Jobs and Consultancy

Head of Collections, Durham Cethedral
Closing date - 20 August 2010
Durham Cathedral is looking for an enthusiastic and skilled Head of Collections to take responsibility for the care of their collections and work with others to develop the wider area of the Cathedral’s mission. The Cathedral’s historic collections are among the most extensive and finest in the country including priceless early manuscripts and a leading collection of early printed books.

The salary will be negotiated in line with experience and qualifications.
Further information about this vacancy, including an application form, is available from The Chapter Clerk, The Chapter Office, The College, Durham, DH1 3EH (0191) 386 4266, enquiries@durhamcathedral.co.uk
Applications will not be acknowledged without a stamped addressed envelope encolsed.

DCMS announces a number of our public bodies are set to be merged, abolished or streamlined

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:33:22 GMT

This is part of the Government’s drive to cut costs and increase transparency, accountability and efficienc

Proposals

Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, has proposed a number of changes, including:

* abolishing the UK Film Council and establishing a direct and less bureaucratic relationship with the British Film Institute; this would support front-line services while ensuring greater value for money - Government and Lottery support for film will continue
* abolishing the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council to focus efforts on front-line, essential services and ensure greater value for money - Government support for museums, libraries and archives will continue
* merging UK Sport and Sport England, creating a more effective structure to deliver elite sport success and a wider sports legacy from the 2012 games

Some key functions carried out by these bodies would be transferred to other, existing organisations.

We will do further work over the summer to finalise the details and timing of these changes. We will also continue to look at its other arm’s length bodies and explore further opportunities to improve accountability and efficiency.

read the DCMS annoucement here