Good reads: Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth's Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries: a compass for meeting the needs of all within the means of the planet.
The space between something and nothing: learning from Create Local
The space between something and nothing: learning from Create Local
One question we get asked a lot is: “What do you actually do in a neighbourhood?” The honest answer is: often, we wait.
It's not the kind of thing you'd expect the Chair of Arts Council England, and former Director of the Tate, to leave with. But it's exactly the kind of detail that keeps drawing him back to Matson.
The Voice of Nature: speaking from nature’s perspective.
In this blog we hear from Jacqui Stearn about being the Voice of Nature on CG’s board and how Julie’s Bicycle programme alongside Jacqui’s own creative practice have supported her to speak from nature’s perspective.
FREE Bird Themed Educational Resource Pack for Primary and SEND Schools
This free pack is full of my creative dance & movement ideas for bird-themed activities.
This resource pack has been developed as part of ‘Bird Nerd and The Red List’, a dance theatre project, funded by @Arts Council England.
Top tips for inclusive evaluation
Barnwood's Research and Policy team shared their learning and a range of resources related to inclusive and accessible evaluation practices through one of the dataday workshops.
Find downloadable resources here.
Top Tips for Ripple Effects Mapping - on your own!
Creative Catalyst Sophia, works in the Forest of Dean for Create Gloucestershire. She has used Ripple Effects Mapping to keep track of the connections she is making through her work.
Ripple Effects Mapping
What difference is your work really making? Ripple Effects Mapping helps you capture the wider impact of projects, organisations and your own practice, and trace how change spreads beyond the obvious outcomes. Watch our short film, download our guide to get started, and read Sophia’s tips for mapping on your own.
Thinking differently about creative health
Research shows that participation in creative activity and art can reduce stress, improve self-esteem, and promote recovery.
But the therapeutic value of participatory arts extends far beyond benefits to individual health: in facilitating and amplifying authentic creative and cultural expression by and for marginalised communities, it also has the potential to reduce health inequalities on a much broader scale.
New Gloucestershire Your Futures website for young people
Gloucestershire Your Futures is a new website designed to support young people with SEND toward achieving their career goals.
Creative Climate Action Toolkit - for small creative businesses and freelancers
Creative Climate Action Toolkit focuses on actionable, achievable and nuanced climate action to support smaller creative businesses, organisations, collectives and freelancers. This step by step approach also helps combat the overwhelm often felt at the scale of the crisis.
Striving for more Inclusive Recruitment
Create Gloucestershire is continually looking at ways we can be a more inclusive employer. And over the past couple of years we have made lots of significant changes to our recruitment process to make it as flexible and accessible as possible.
We’ve put this blog together to share our learning about what we did. And at the bottom of the page you’ll find a checklist that we hope you’ll find useful.
Useful National Mourning Guidance for Museums, Galleries and Arts venues
Arts Council England have shared guidance for cultural organisations given by the Government in their National Mourning Guidance Guide.
The guidance includes advice for museums, galleries, and entertainment events, as well as about websites and social media, which you or your organisation and your board/governing body may find useful.
The Art of Libraries toolkit is here!
We are delighted to announce that our Art of Libraries toolkit is now available to download.
The toolkit is packed with creative and practical ideas to support artists and library staff to work together to make an irresistible creative programme for children and young people.
Reimagining where we live: cultural placemaking and the levelling up agenda
Create Gloucestershire’s evidence to the DCMS inquiry into cultural placemaking and levelling up. We share what we’ve learned from resident led alliances such as Culture Matson and Cam and Dursley Creatives, from paying artists and community producers properly, and from bringing new funders to the table, and set out why trust, time and shared decision making matter most in places without an established arts infrastructure.
Framework for Human Connection
From research and development with 60+ organisations, Deepr defined Five Conditions, Principles and Methods that help to create human connection in digital services. When we design solutions that foster these between people, services work better, more gets done and people feel good. Deepr have launched a whole suite of free tools for anyone to use.
Young Trustees Guide
Developing the next generation of charity leaders.
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) launched the Growing Giving campaign in order to secure the future of the charity sector and from the very start we realised it was vital to get young people to engage with charities – through volunteering, raising and donating funds, and in leadership positions such as serving as trustees of a charity.