Community Arts

A new Youth Arts Starter Kit has been launched by Artsplan. It is the essential kit for anyone who is starting to work together with young people in the arts and would like a range of useful tools to support them in their work for a bargain price.

The Youth Arts Starter Kit has been produced by Artswork, the national youth arts development agency, as part of their Artsplan department. Artsplan is a series of training and publications and the in-house training provider of ENYAN (English National Youth Arts Network). All training and publications are written by experienced youth arts specialists, currently involved in a variety of project work through the UK.

For further details contact Artswork
Phone: 02380 682 535
artsplan@artswork.org.uk
www.artswork.org.uk/artsplan

B3 makes connections between Britain's multicultural communities and its creative industries. We do so by uniting the power of digital media with the creative potential of emerging digital artists, film makers, visual artists and sound artists.

Our activities - workshops, screenings, studio sessions, talks, networking events - are all about nurturing new talent and creating industry connections. We help them develop, produce and distribute their work, from the first spark of an idea through to the first showing and beyond.

B3 Media and the National Film & Television School have teamed up to bring the Compass Point programme. It includes workshops and practical assignments in business-planning and project development. Participants will also make a short DVD to showcase their talents.

Graduates of the scheme will be positioned to enhance their businesses, develop their own careers and play a vital role in creating a more representative UK media industry.

B3 Media
Electric Avenue Studios
3b Electric Avenue
London
SW9 8JY
Phone: 020 7274 2121
studio@b3media.net
www.b3media.net

BTWSC is a Brent-based, pan-London not-for-profit voluntary organisation.

The organisation uses the creative arts to develop the potential of young people and adults. Its core projects are centred around music business and music technology courses, writing workshops and writing competitions, ceremonies recognising unsung people, and family and community cohesion projects. BTWSC also runs an accredited ASET Level 2 Event Planning course.

BTWSC projects are aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at people from socially disadvantaged or excluded backgrounds or areas.

Because of its client base, most BTWSC programmes are free, and are either fully or partially funded. The organisation is also keen to work in partnership with schools, voluntary and community organisations, and commercial organisations.

Ms Serwah,
Co-ordinator,
BTWSC,
PO Box 14092,
London NW10 1WL

Phone: 020 8450 5987
info@btwsc.com
www.btwsc.com

Cardboard Citizens changes the lives of homeless and displaced people through theatre and the performing arts.

Our mission:

- We present plays performed by homeless and displaced people, to share experiences and problem-solve together
- We make theatre for general audiences so a wider public can share in the company's learning and understanding of the issues faced by homeless people
- We enable excluded people to develop skills and confidence through projects and workshops
- We meet the practical needs of homeless and displaced people, supporting them in matters of housing, education, employment, health, career and personal development.

All the workshops are led by professional artists, take place in hostels and day centres, and at Crisis Skylight in Spitalfields.

Cardboard Citizens
26 Hanbury Street
London
E1 6QR
Phone: 020 7247 7747
Fax: 020 7650 0002
mail@cardboardcitizens.org.uk
www.cardboardcitizens.org.uk

Carnival Village is the capital's unique multi-venue arts and entertainment destination. Based in the locality of Europe's biggest carnival, we host arts schools and workshops.

Carnival Village stage events in partnership with a number of promotors, with a wide range of arts including architecture, fashion, new media, film, public art, music and theatre.

Underpinning African Caribbean culture, we maintain perennial activities in carnival arts. Our venues are:

The Tabernacle w11 and
The Yaa Centre w9.

Tabernacle: 020 7221 9700
The Yaa Centre: 020 7286 1656

The Tabernacle
Powis Square
London
W11 2AY

The Yaa Centre
1 Chippenham Mews
London
W9 2AN
info@carnivalvillage.org.uk
www.carnivalvillage.org.uk

Chipmunkapublishing is the Mental Health Publisher. Our mental health books give a voice to writers with mental illness around the world.

The way Chipmunka promotes you and your books is always evolving:
- We promote your books at Trade Shows, e.g. London Book Fair
- We promote your books at mental health conferences
- Many conferences run by the NHS, we often support the NHS for free
- We also submit your books to search engines on the internet and pay for your ISBN registration.

Chipmunkapublishing successful publishling and promotion of literature brings a positive attitude towards mental health issues. They aim to break down the stigma on mental illness once and for all.

Quay House
2 Admirals Way
Marsh Wall
London
E14 9XG
Phone: 020 8133 9512
info@chipmunkapublishing.com
www.chipmunkapublishing.com

Collective Artistes (CA) is an international Black ensemble committed to producing culturally diverse professional and community theatre of social concern.

Forever central to Collective Artistes mission, is to embrace the African Diaspora communities, to address the needs of its members and to promote a complex and positive perception of Africa and the African Diaspora to UK and international audiences.

Touring UK African Theatre Workshops are available, drawing on the themes of upcoming productions. The workshop interweaves the history of the story with an exploration of African Theatre techniques including stortelling, music and movement.

Forever central to Collective Artistes mission, is to embrace the African Diaspora communities, to address the needs of its members and to promote a complex and positive perception of Africa and the African Diaspora to UK and international audiences.

87 Lambeth Walk
London
SE11 6DX
Phone: 020 7587 1100
info@collectiveartistes.co.uk
www.collectiveartistes.co.uk

The Comedy School aims to raise the profile of the many uses of comedy, from stimulating personal creativity to encouraging social skills and improving literacy. We achieve this through our innovative workshop, performance and arts projects. These are varied and inclusive, catering for those who wish to be comedians, to work in the arts and the entertainment industries, or to improve their communication skills and confidence.

The Comedy School is committed to enhancing the lives of local communities and developing responsive projects, using the arts as media for making learning interactive and fun.

Our unique way of working has enabled the company to take arts practitioners to many varied environments, including schools, prisons, traveller sites and excluded communities across the UK.

Keith Palmer - director
Phone: 020 7486 1844
www.thecomedyschool.com

CDF is the leading source of intelligence, guidance and delivery on community development in England and across the UK. Our mission is to lead community development analysis and strategy to empower people to influence decisions that affect their lives.

CDF's key aim is to spread ways of building engaged, cohesive and stronger communities and a more effective community sector:

- by advising government and other bodies on community development
- by analysing practice to identify good community development policy
- by conducting research and evaluation
- by supporting community development work through networks, links with practitioners and work with partner organisations
- by managing funding schemes for local projects through training, events, publications and consultancy.

We work with government departments, regional and local public agencies and the community and voluntary sectors. We also operate at a European and international level.

We are a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and a charity registered in England and Wales and recognised in Scotland.

Unit 5, Angel Gate,
320-326 City Road,
London EC1V 2PT
Phone: 020 7833 1772
Fax: 020 7837 6584
admin@cdf.org.uk
www.cdf.org.uk

Community Matters is the nationwide federation for community associations and similar organisations, with 1100 member organisations across the UK. Community Matters has played a key role in promoting and supporting action by ordinary people in response to social, educational and recreational needs in their neighbourhoods and communities.

Their vision is for active and sustainable communities in which everyone is valued and can play their full part. Community Matters pursues this vision by supporting and developing the capacity of community organisations and representing their interests at a national level.

Community Matters provides information, advice, publications, events, training, consultancy and lobbying on behalf of its members. Publishes a wide range of information sheets which are available for a small fee (£1.50).

Community Matters,
12-20 Baron Street,
London N1 9LL
Phone: 020 7837 7887 / Adviceline: 0845 847 4253 open daily 9.30am-5pm
Fax: 020 7278 9253
info@communitymatters.org.uk
www.communitymatters.org.uk

The voluntary and community sector (VCS) is driven by the communities it serves. These communities are a neighbourhood or village, or may be communities of interest such as people who share a faith.

The community sector is made up of a wide range of different types of activity and organisations, including:

- Community groups: these are small and often informal and are run on a voluntary basis by the people who benefit from the activity, they may or may not have a constitution
- Community development workers: these are professionals who are employed by a range of different organisations to work with communities, engaging individuals in community action and to develop community groups in a particular neighbourhood or community of interest
- Community centres: these buildings often provide a space where the community groups and other activity takes place
- Specialist community activity: there is also a wide range of activity that takes place at community level, owned and run by the community for example, community arts and sports events, community run youth groups, community learning opportunities, advice centres and community conservation activity.

33 Corsham Street
London
N1 6DR
Phone: 020 7336 9461
www.communitysectorcoalition.org.uk

Cultural Co-operation (CC) is an independent London-based arts & education charity with an unparalleled 20-year track record of promoting cross-cultural contact, dialogue and understanding.

CC's programme comprises 3 distinct though inter-related strands:

- FESTIVAL: CC's summer Music Village is Europe's longest-running festival of world cultures. All events are Free Admission and take place in attractive and accessible locations across the city.

- EDUCATION: The programme delivers National Curriculum-linked teaching residencies on world cultural heritage in schools and museums all over London. Residencies are led by UK-based heritage animateurs from diverse cultural & faith backgrounds.

- NETWORK: London: Diaspora Capital (LDC) CC initiated this unique resource in 1998 to generate greater visibility and opportunity for BME/diasporan artists and to provide a bedrock of infrastructure for a chronically neglected cultural sector.

1st Floor
4 Pinchin Street
London
E1 1SA
Phone: 020 7264 0000
info@culturalco-operation.org
www.culturalco-operation.org

Deafinitely Theatre is a professional Deaf-led company. Our productions are made from a Deaf perspective and aim to empower Deaf culture, identity and pride locally, nationally and internationally.

We create productions in British Sign Language (BSL) and English, which can be understood by everyone and yet retain BSL as the leading language throughout, on and off stage.

Our Courses and workshops have involved working with deaf writers to make visual ideas into theatre. The workshops help build and structure ideas into short plays to be performed to audiences. It aims to build a bridge between Deaf and hearing worlds by showing plays to both groups as one audience.

Unit 20
Deane House Studios
27 Greenwood Place
London
NW5 1LB
Phone: 020 7424 7360
www.deafinitelytheatre.co.uk

"DSC provides information and training for the voluntary sector. Their vision is to be an internationally recognised, independent source of information and support to voluntary and community sectors worldwide. They believe the activities in which voluntary and community organisations engage are crucial, both to the causes they serve and the social environment in which they operate.

DSC helps voluntary and community organisations to thrive through advice on:
- how to raise the money they need
- how to manage their resources to maximum effect
- how to influence the right people
- what their rights and responsibilities are
- how to plan and develop for the future.

Directory of Social Change London Office
24 Stephenson Way
London
NW1 2DP
Phone: 020 7209 4949
Fax: 020 7391 4808
training@dsc.org.uk
www.dsc.org.uk

The Evelyn Oldfield Unit was established in 1994, by a consortium of funding bodies and agencies which work with refugee community organisations, including City Parochial Foundation, Thames Telethon, London Borough Grants, the Refugee Working Party and the Refugee Council.

The aim of the Unit is to develop specialist support for refugee organisations to enable them to adequately tackle the pressing needs of the communities they serve.

The Evelyn Oldfield Unit provides free, accessible and practical training for Refugee & Migrant Community Organisations on a range of subjects, in order to help groups to build their capacity, develop skills and knowledge, and address issues that are relevant to them and their communities.

London Voluntary Sector Resource Centre
356 Holloway Road
London
N7 6PA
Phone: 020 7700 8213
Fax: 020 7700 8136
administrator@evelynoldfield.co.uk
www.evelynoldfield.co.uk

The national network for community development training. They exist to support the development of communities. They advance and promote learning about community development at local, regional and national levels. They also work on the creation of appropriate opportunities for training and qualification.

They support a network of individuals, organisations and groups interested in community development learning and training to share information and good training practice, to learn from each other and to provide good opportunities for community development learning. Full and Associate membership is available.

Federation for Community Development Learning,
The Circle
Rockingham Lane
Sheffield S1 4WF
Phone: 0114 273 9391
Fax: 0114 276 2377
info@fcdl.org.uk
www.fcdl.org.uk

Foundation for Community Dance is the professional organisation for anyone involved in creating opportunities for people to experience and participate in dance. FCD believe that dance can transform the lives of individuals and communities. Our vision is for a world where dance is part of everyone's life, a mission to make engagement with dance important to individuals and communities.


In addition to a wide range of membership and professional services we organise our strategic development and advocacy work into five programmes:

National College for Community Dance (Continuing Professional Development), Dance, health and wellbeing, Dance and disabled people, Dance and London 2012 and Animated, the community dance magazine.

FCD gives essential sources of practical information and help to support your work in community dance, such as training materials, teaching packs, DVD's, magazines and other reading. FCD also give helpful insight into case studies of events and projects, for further info go to ww.communitydance.org.uk

Foundation for Community Dance
LCB Depot
31 Rutland Street
Leicester
LE1 1RE
Phone: +44 (0)116 253 3453
Fax: +44 (0)116 253 34531
info@communitydance.org.uk
www.communitydance.org.uk

Free Form is unique in providing the full range of arts and creative services for the built environment to place art at the heart of urban regeneration. Hothouse is Free Form's new headquarters and centre for regeneration through the creative industries, combining an events and exhibitions space, IT design facility, creative industries workspace and training programmes.

Free Form is part of the Creative Industries Support consortium.

Services & Resources:
- Cultural Enterprise Training (NVQ Level 3) European Social Fund part funded
- seminars and talks led by creative industry professionals and arts practitioners
- technical resources
- business support for creative practitioners.

Hothouse: creative spaces for creative people
Registered charity no.270569

Hothouse
Free Form Arts Trust
274 Richmond Road
London fields
E8 3QW
Phone: 020 7249 3394
contact@freeform.org.uk

Hackney Co-operative Developments (HCD) is a not-for profit, community benefit company, specialising in business support, customised training, premises provision and creating suitable environments for small businesses, community groups and voluntary organisations in Hackney.

Its priority target groups are black and ethnic minority individuals and organisations, female entrepreneurs, youth, co-operatives, and green and ethical businesses.

HCD's basic approach is community based. Their staff work with local people and their communities exploring ideas and opportunities jointly with them, establishing viable ways for their aspirations to be fulfilled. HCD provide a wide spectrum of services including property development and management advice and training for small business, social enterprise, community business and worker co-operatives strategic engagement with local, regional and national bodies to promote the urban regeneration of the local area for community benefit.

62 Beechwood Road,
London E83DY

Phone: 020 7254 4829
info@hcd.coop
www.hced.co.uk

Heart n Soul is a leading arts organisation that started in 1986. We use our original work to touch and change people's lives. We do this by giving a voice to learning disability culture and putting it at our heart.

We want our artists and all the people that work for Heart n Soul to have the chance to learn new skills and move forward in their careers. We offer training in different ways to help people achieve this such as:

- Creative skills training for young people, like Do Your Own Thing
- Training courses like I Did That (starting January 2009) that people get valued (accredited for)
- One to one sessions like songwriting or compere coaching
- Learning a trade (apprenticeships) like in technical skills
- On the job training, where one member of the team trains another.

We make music, theatre, dance, visual art, digital art, films and clubs. By working with a range of exciting artists and trying new ways of doing things.

Douglas Way
London
SE8 4AG
Phone: 020 8694 1632
info@heartnsoul.co.uk
www.heartnsoul.co.uk

Idea Store has a range of creative courses available for 16 or over. These include, art and design, dance, fashion and textiles, music, and photography. Tower Hamlets Council delivers these courses in partnership with Tower Hamlets College.

The Idea store can be contacted for further free course information, advice & guidance.

321 Whitechapel Road
London
E1 1BU
Phone: 020 7364 5665
info.lls@towerhamlets.gov.uk
www.ideastore.co.uk/en/articles/learning

SABA was established in 1991, by a group of young Black graduates. They were alarmed by the difficulties BME communities faced when trying to succeed within their field. Their strategy was to create and produce a variety of urban arts activities and educational programmes for disadvantaged communities living on large housing estates in London. Through this work the founders set out to tackle social exclusion.

SABA helps support the growth and unity of our community by providing quality, affordable and community-focused services for community-led organisations or, by encouraging private, not-for-profit and public organisations to design better community-focused services.

SABA continues to work closely with community groups primarily on large housing estates. As a result of experience gained through its work as part of regeneration projects, and with the addition of experienced housing and financial advisers, SABA has also added housing policy to its portfolio and strengthened its fundraising arm to include financial advice to small organisations.

SABA, Bethnal Green Training Centre, Hanbury St, London, E1 5HZ
Phone: 020 7377 8545
info@saba.org.uk
www.saba.org.uk

Southwark Arts Forum is the strategic networking organisation for the Arts and Cultural Industries in the London Borough of Southwark. SAF mission is to help artists, arts organisations and creative industries in Southwark to excel, and to have a greater impact on their local community.

Southwark Arts Forum works with individual artists, arts and cultural organisations, educators, community groups, other umbrella organisations and the statutory sector to help build capacity and engage in wider borough agendas such as regeneration and neighbourhood renewal.

186 Peckham High Street,
London, SE15 5EG

Phone: 020 7252 8672
katy@southwarkartsforum.org
www.southwarkartsforum.org

Southwark Refugee Artists Network is intended to provide access to refugee artists and their communities to the resources they need in Southwark's cultural life.

SRAN is set up to:

- Provide a framework for advice and capacity building for refugee and asylum seekers artist.
- Create a platform for refugee artists to present and promote their work.
- Bring new artists into the network and encourage a dynamic participation with the projects, events and opportunities.
- Hosting activities/events that encourage participation within the refugee community.
- Offer opportunities for professional training and skilled exchange.
- Establish closer relationship with the refugee community
- Engage refugee artists in an all year program on arts and cultural activities.
- Increase access to best practice and mainstream arts.

SRAN is continuing with the promotion of positive art events by creating art/cultural projects and by participating in festivals and art events, which contributes to the understanding of refugees and the enhancement of new art forms in the UK.

186 Peckham High Street
London
SE15 5EG
Phone: 020 7635 6535
sranlondon@gmail.com
www.southwark.tv/refugee

StoneCrabs is a theatre and arts production company. StoneCrabs understand theatre to involve all art forms, fusing together forms of world theatre, dance, music and crossing borders between culture and the arts.

StoneCrabs has a mission to enrich people's lives through theatre. The core ethos is to nourish, to inspire, and to challenge. StoneCrabs is a multi-cultural team producing plays from United Kingdom and abroad.

As part of their commitment to the twin beliefs that education is dialogue and theatre is core to the community, StoneCrabs offers exploratory workshops in techniques designed to develop and build the performative vocabulary of the actor/performer and community facilitator. Workshops are usually based around their current production and seek to utilise the varied skills of those involved.

StoneCrabs
Studio B115
Faircharm Studios
8-10 Creekside
London
SE8 3DX
Phone: 020 8694 6472
Fax: 020 8694 6472
info@stonecrabs.co.uk
www.stonecrabs.co.uk

Streetwise Opera uses music as a tool to help people who have experienced homelessness move forward in their lives. We do this through a weekly music programme in 11 homeless centres around England and by staging an annual professional production. Streetwise's latest production, My Secret Heart is touring internationally, reaching an estimated audience of 100,000.

Streetwise Opera produces work of equal artistic and social merit never compromising with either. Instead of focusing on the needs of our performers, we celebrate their achievements.

All weekly singing workshops offered around the country are free to join and there are no auditions. To take part in workshops you need to be attending one of the homeless centres Streetwise Opera works in each week. Streetwise Opera workshops in London currently take place at:

- Connection at St Martins, Adelaide St WC2

- Crisis Skylight, Commercial St E1

- Queen Mary Hostel, Greencoat Place SW1

- The Passage, Carlisle Place SW1

Please get in touch with Streetwise Opera if you would like the office address.

Reg charity no: 1092931

Phone: 020 7495 3133
admin@streetwiseopera.org
www.streetwiseopera.org

Studio Voltaire is the first and only artist-led gallery and studio complex in South West London, offering a service for local residents, schools and community groups that was not previously available.

Founded in 1994, Studio Voltaire actively promotes the production and presentation of contemporary art practice with its Exhibition, Education and Studio Programmes. The organisation is committed to widening access to contemporary practice and to harnessing the arts as a vehicle for further education and learning.

Studio Voltaire provides a much-needed resource of affordable studios to London-based artists. It is our key objective to create a supportive and critical atmosphere to develop diverse artistic practices and help provide career opportunities.

1a Nelsons Row, London SW4 7JR
Phone: 020 7622 1294
Fax: 020 7627 8008
info@studiovoltaire.org
http://studiovoltaire.org/

Theatre Venture engages the diverse communities of east London in professional and participatory theatre, media and arts projects.

Theatre Venture produce professional productions and community performance events each year, bringing local residents into their home at Stratford Circus, and taking their work out to all kinds of venues in the London Borough of Newham.

Theatre Venture offers courses and training workshops for participants of all ages. Their programmes vary from regular weekly classes and workshops to holiday schools, showcase festivals, performances and professional development.

Theatre Venture provides pathways for theatre artists in training, from beginners to graduates, to develop their skills and potential to become the arts professionals of the future.

Stratford Circus,
Theatre Square,
London E15 1BX
Phone: 020 8519 6678
Fax: 020 8279 1064
info@theatre-venture.org
www.theatre-venture.org

UrbanWords is a literature consultancy specialising in writing and regeneration projects. We host the web resource A Place For Words, which brings together critical thinking, tips and guidance, and best practice in the field of writing and regeneration, and writing and the public realm.

We are currently developing a programme of professional development opportunities for writers, urban design professionals and arts managers interested in this area of work. Please email sarah@urbanwords.org.uk to be put on our mailing list.

Sarah Butler
sarah@urbanwords.org.uk
www.urbanwords.org.uk/aplaceforwords

Voluntary Arts Network aims to promote participation in the arts and crafts across the UK and ROI, and increasingly in Europe. VAN recognise that they are a key part of our culture and as such they are absolutely vital to our health, social and economic development.

Over half the UK adult population is involved in the voluntary arts and crafts - those arts and crafts that people undertake for self-improvement, social networking and leisure, but not primarily for payment. The range of artforms is wide and includes folk, dance, drama, literature, media, music, visual arts, crafts and applied arts, and festivals.

VAN services include:
- briefing sheets offering advice on issues relevant to the sector
- specialised arts management training and research into the organisational development needs of the sector
- consultation responses
- they respond to government and relevant organisational initiatives.

Voluntary Arts Network,
121 Cathedral Road, Pontcanna, Cardiff, CF11 9PH
Phone: 02920 395 395
info@voluntaryarts.org
http://voluntaryarts.org

The Women's Resource Centre (WRC) is a charity, which supports women's organisations to be more effective and sustainable. WRC works to bring women's organisations together, strengthening women's networks and forums where they exist and nurturing new contacts.

WRC's 350+ members work in a wide range of fields including health, violence against women, employment, education, rights and equality, the criminal justice system and the environment. They deliver services to and campaign on behalf of some of the most marginalised communities of women.

WRC events, training and conferences provide opportunities for women across the sector to meet, learn new skills and share ideas and experiences. Their magazines, newsletters and website highlight important issues and developments and contain vital resources for women's organisations.

WRC have a new project for women's organisations in London, providing workshops and one-to-one support to enable them to make the most of current and emerging funding opportunities. They help to engage positively with funders, form effective partnerships and plan for a sustainable future.

Phone: 020 7324 3030
development@wrc.org.uk
www.wrc.org.uk