Research reports

Voluntary Arts is pleased to be a partner in ‘Understanding Everyday Participation – Articulating Cultural Values’, a large-scale project to research how people participate in culture, sport and other social and civic activities in their everyday lives. The research aims to develop new ways of understanding and measuring participation and its value based on how […]

A report, released by the Third Sector Research Centre, states that grassroots arts activity makes a ‘very significant and positive contribution’ to the development of Civil Society.
Researchers from TSRC, in partnership with Universities of Exeter and Glamorgan as well as Voluntary Arts, reviewed a large amount of information on grassroots arts activity. They drew the […]

Northern Ireland Facts, Figures, Future ‘In one year over 12% of the adult population participates in the arts through voluntary arts groups in Northern Ireland’. This is one of the key findings of the Voluntary Arts Ireland research report.
This is the first report on the nature of the voluntary arts sector in Northern Ireland. It looks at […]