Directory: COMMUNITY ARTS

 
     _{COMMUNITY ARTS: HEALTH}

::  Arts for Health is an active and successful arts-for-health initiative in North Staffordshire.

::  Creative Remedies - delivers art projects about health issues in Staffordshire.

::  Borderland Voices - runs arts & writing workshops for the mentally ill in Staffordshire Moorlands and the White Peak area.

::  Emily Campbell - a Stoke-based artist undertaking public art projects, including arts and health work. Her Love Ties work and other work can be seen on her web site and is also featured on Creative Stoke.

::  Sanity Fair - annual free mental-health arts festival held in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.

::  The Cultural Sisters.

::  Glassball Arts - based near Leek. Digital-arts group with mobile kit and strong experience in community arts.

 Artaction - providers of NHS-recognised art therapy.

  Jigsaw Arts for Health - based at Trentham Mews Medical Centre, Stoke-on-Trent. An Arts & Health Project that runs regular arts events and holds an annual Community Arts Festival, in conjunction with local primary schools.

    _{COMMUNITY ARTS: YOUTH & PERFORMANCE}

::  b arts (aka Beavers Arts) - an artist-led combined-arts company, which has an 18-year track-record of projects & programmes. Based in Newcastle-under-Lyme, b arts works in North Staffordshire, the wider West Midlands, and internationally. Recent work includes: site-specific theatre, animating Weston Park in Staffordshire; touring shows on the meaning & impact of woodlands; video & touring theatre made with young unaccompanied refugees; a CD-ROM for Chatterley Whitfield Regeneration; and Raising the Spirits 2002, an international festival of women's voices.

::  Planet Sound - based in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Our area's main community-arts music & dance organisation, delivering creative projects across the region, and helping to develop the local artistic skills base. There's also the associated Planet Vision Photography service.

::  New Vic Borderlines - based in Newcastle-under Lyme. Part of the New Vic Theatre, Borderlines is the Vic's strong community-arts programme of workshops and touring performance.

::  Staffordshire Dance Collective

::  FRONTLINEdance - six-member dance company which runs education projects bringing together disabled and non-disabled dancers. Based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.

::  The Cultural Sisters - can create youth performance experiences.

::   Playaway is an arts and crafts purchasing group for children's activities, and is based in Stoke and Stafford.

::  Alan Barrett - freelance actor/writer and storyteller, based in Stoke-on-Trent.

::  Glassball Arts - based in Leek. Digital-arts group with mobile kit and strong experience in community arts.

::  kittojago - specialist in child-centred art workshops. Based in Cheadle.

 Studio Q at the Queensberry Youth Centre (Old school buildings on corner of Queensberry Rd. / Furnace Rd., just off A50, Normacot), provides music recording studios and rehearsal space free of charge, or at a small cost, for young people between the ages of 13 and 25.

 Burslem Summer School. Major annual summer youth-theatre workshop series with professional directors.

::  Alton Castle - a 12th Century castle near the Churnet Valley; now a residential centre owned by the Archdiocese of Birmingham - which can offer disadvantaged children short-courses in spiritual, outdoors and creative activities. Has a new Discovery Centre with a dedicated room for Arts & Crafts.

     _{COMMUNITY ARTS: CRIME & PRISONS}

 Rideout; Creative Arts for Rehabilitation - based at The Roslyn Works, a cluster of managed crafts workshops in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. Rideout specialises in... "the development of long-term creative arts programmes for prisoners." A recent touring exhibition had some impressive work, involving interactive wooden models which symbolised the destructive behaviour which sent each criminal to prison.

     _{COMMUNITY ARTS: IDENTITY & PLACE}

::  Emily Campbell - a Stoke-based artist undertaking public art projects, including arts and health work. Her place-based Love Ties work and other work can be seen on her web site and is also featured on Creative Stoke.

::  People Like You - a documentary web-site for a twelve-week artist's commission by Jubilee Arts / Public Art - West Midlands. The project took place in both North & South Staffordshire, examining why people support the BNP.

::  Rural Education & Arts Project - based in Longnor, Staffordshire. REAP is based around celebrating hill-farming life and rural regeneration in North Staffordshire & The Peak District. REAP is also the contact for the Rural Crafts Revival Project.

     _{COMMUNITY ARTS: ENVIRONMENTAL}

     _{COMMUNITY ARTS: COUNCIL SUPPORT}

 Stoke City Council - Community Arts. The Council has a Community Arts Officer (Paul Bailey) and graduate assistants within the Education Department. Small grants are available from their Community Arts Development Programme (CADP), for suitable community/educational arts & crafts projects - and they can also suggest local artists for groups to employ on projects.

     _{SOURCES OF VOLUNTEERS AND FUND-RAISING INFORMATION}

::  SPONTE - Staffordshire University's new scheme to match student volunteers with local community groups in Stoke.

::  The Experience Corps. - can help with finding volunteers over the age of fifty.

::  National Lottery & Community Fund, and the Awards for All scheme for smaller groups.

::  SAM Arts - their excellent list of fund-raising books.

::  Charities Information Bureau - Fund-raising.

::  Arts & Business: West Midlands - for advice and training on obtaining business sponsorship and partnerships.

::  unLtd provide grants to individuals who run projects which help their communities.

 Robbie Williams' Give it Sum Fund can be applied to by voluntary organisations in Stoke-on-Trent.