News from Voluntary Arts

Up for Arts supported The Healthy Heart event at Aintree University Hospital which was a huge success.
The event, which took place on Valentine’s Day, aimed to promote being healthy and looking after your heart. More than 150 hospital staff, patients and visitors come along to have a free health check, as well as attending the […]

Voluntary Arts Briefings provide advice and guidance on best practice, procedures and current legislation, for voluntary arts groups and umbrella bodies. They are written in plain English and have been well-received throughout the voluntary arts sector for over ten years.
We have just published three new VA Briefings:
148 – Creating a Twitter presence
This Briefing will […]

An exciting new service has been launched for anyone involved with amateur groups. Running Your Group is a web-based resource designed to give people all the tools they need to start up, fund, market and manage their organisation.
Running Your Group provides a number of packages, from a free quick reference tool to in-depth interactive guides. […]

A multi-disciplinary team led by CRESC (Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the University of Manchester) Senior Research Fellow Dr Andrew Miles has been awarded £1.5 million by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a five-year research project under its Communities, Culture and Creative Economies funding programme.
‘Understanding Everyday Participation – Articulating Cultural Values’ […]

Area – Inverness and Inverclyde
Dates – Sunday 11 March (Inverness) and Thursday 15 March (Inverclyde)
Would you like more people to take part in your arts and crafts activities? Then our Make a Splash information and training session may be able to help. The event looks at existing barriers to arts participation (often unintentional) and how to […]

 
Mae’n bleser gan Celfyddydau Gwirfoddol Cymru gyhoeddi mai Hamish Fyfe yw eu Cadeirydd newydd. Mae Hamish Fyfe wedi byw a gweithio yng Nghymru ers naw mlynedd. Mae’n Athro Celfyddydau a Chymdeithas ym Mhrifysgol Morgannwg lle mae’n gyfrifol am Ganolfan adrodd Storiau George Ewart Evans a’r Ganolfan ar gyfer yr Economi Ddigidol. Mae gan Hamish gefndir […]

 
Mae Celfyddydau Gwirfoddol wedi cyhoeddi pwy sydd wedi ennill Gwobrau Epic 2011 am waith ardderchog ym maes celf a chrefft gwirfoddol ar draws y DU a Gweriniaeth Iwerddon.
Enillwyd gwobr Cymru gan ‘Third Floor Gallery, galeri ffotograffiaeth yng Nghaerdydd sy’n torri tir newydd. Mae eu ffordd arloesol o gynhyrchu arddangosfeydd wedi eu galluogi i roi […]

 
Voluntary Arts Wales is delighted to announce Hamish Fyfe as its new Chair. Hamish Fyfe has lived and worked in Wales for nine years. He is Professor of the Arts and Society at the University of Glamorgan where he runs the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling and the Centre for the Digital Economy. Hamish […]

 
Voluntary Arts has announced the winners of the 2011 Epic Awards for excellence in the arts and crafts across the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
The Wales award was won by Third Floor Gallery, a pioneering photography gallery in Cardiff. Their innovative way of producing exhibitions had enabled them to host renowned artists who might […]

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 […]