Your Creativity Umbrella Bodies Finding information or advice on a specific artform can be difficult and the voluntary arts covers a huge range of activities. Umbrella bodies can be a great way to find out more about a specific artform, craft or activity and, as they are often membership bodies, they can also point you towards local groups near you! See the list below here, and check out our 'Creativity Map' for direct links to groups across the UK and Ireland. List of Umbrella Bodies by category Organisation Website Email Facebook Twitter Craft Association for Contemporary Jewellery www.acj.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Association of Woodturners of Great Britain www.woodturners.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Basketmakers' Association www.basketmakersassociation.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Bead Society of Great Britain www.beadsociety.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Border Stick Dressers Association www.bsda.eu [email protected] British Association for Modern Mosaics www.bamm.org.uk [email protected] British Beadworkers' Guild www.beadworkersguild.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter British Decoy Wildfowl Carvers www.bdwca.org.uk [email protected] British Origami Society www.britishorigami.info [email protected] Facebook British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild www.britishpuppetguild.org.uk [email protected] British Society of Master Glass Painters www.bsmgp.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter British Sugarcraft Guild www.bsguk.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter British Toymakers Guild www.toymakersguild.co.uk Facebook British Woodcarvers Association www.britishwoodcarversassociation.co.uk [email protected] British Woodturners Association www.britishwoodturners.co.uk [email protected] Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society www.clas.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Contemporary Glass Society www.cgs.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Crafts Council www.craftscouncil.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Guild of Enamellers www.guildofenamellers.org Facebook Guild of Glass Engravers www.gge.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Guild of Rocking Horse Makers www.rockinghorse.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Hilliard Society of Miniaturists www.hilliardsociety.org [email protected] International Guild of Knot Tyers www.igkt.net [email protected] London Potters www.londonpotters.com [email protected] Facebook Twitter Marquetry Society www.marquetry.org [email protected] National Federation of Women's Institutes www.thewi.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers www.royal-miniature-society.org.uk [email protected] Twitter The Arts Society (formerly NADFAS) www.theartssociety.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter Dance All England Dance Association www.all-england-dance.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter British Association of American Square Dance Clubs www.uksquaredancing.com British Cheerleading Association www.cheerleading.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter British Dance Council www.bdconline.org [email protected] Facebook Dalcroze Society www.dalcroze.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Early Dance Circle www.earlydancecircle.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter English Amateur Dancesport Association www.eada.org.uk Facebook English Folk Dance and Song Society www.efdss.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter Historical Dance Society www.historicaldance.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Laban Guild for Movement and Dance www.labanguild.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Morris Federation www.morrisfed.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Morris Ring www.themorrisring.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter One Dance UK www.onedanceuk.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter Open Morris www.open-morris.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter People Dancing www.communitydance.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Royal Scottish Country Dance Society www.rscds.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter Society for International Folk Dancing www.sifd.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter Square Dance Callers Club of Great Britain google.com/site/squaredancecallersclub Sweet Adelines International www.sweetadelines.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Allied Dancing Association www.allieddancing.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Disabilities Shape Arts www.shapearts.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Drama All England Theatre Festival www.aetf.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Association of Community Theatre www.actuk.org [email protected] Facebook Association of Ulster Drama Festivals www.audf.org.uk [email protected] Little Theatre Guild www.littletheatreguild.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Association of Youth Theatres www.nayt.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Operatic and Dramatic Association (NODA) www.noda.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Radius www.radiusdrama.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Scottish Community Drama Association www.scda.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Total Theatre Network www.totaltheatre.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Youth Theatre of Great Britain www.nyt.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Festivals Association of Festival Organisers www.festivalorganisers.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter Association of Independent Festivals www.aiforg.com [email protected] Facebook Twitter British Arts Festivals Association www.artsfestivals.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Drama Festivals Association www.ndfa.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Film Cinema For All www.cinemaforall.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter IAC - The Film & Video Institute www.theiac.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Literary Alliance of Literary Societies www.allianceofliterarysocieties.org.uk Facebook Twitter Folklore Society www.folklore-society.com [email protected] Facebook Twitter International PEN www.pen-international.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Association of Writers Groups www.nawg.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Poetry Society www.poetrysociety.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Society for Storytelling www.sfs.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Spread the Word www.spreadtheword.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Music Brass Bands England www.brassbandsengland.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter British Association of Barbershop Singers www.singbarbershop.com [email protected] Twitter British Association of Steelbands www.panpodium.com Facebook Twitter British Association of Symphonic Band and Wind Ensembles www.basbwe.net [email protected] Facebook Twitter British BMG Federation www.banjomandolinguitar.org British Choirs on the Net www.choirs.org.uk/home Facebook Twitter British Clavichord Society www.clavichord.org.uk British Double Reed Society www.bdrs.org.uk [email protected] Twitter British Flute Society www.bfs.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter British Horn Society www.british-horn.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter British Trombone Society www.britishtrombonesociety.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter British Youth Band Association www.byba.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Clarinet and Saxophone Society www.cassgb.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter CoMA (Contemporary Music Making for Amateurs) www.coma.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter Commun na Clarsaich www.clarsachsociety.co.uk [email protected] Corps of Drums Society www.corpsofdrums.com [email protected] Facebook Drum Corps United Kingdom www.dcuk.org.uk [email protected] Twitter East Anglian Traditional Music Trust www.eatmt.org.uk [email protected] English Folk Dance and Song Society www.efdss.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter Friends of Cathedral Music www.fcm.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Handbell Ringers of Great Britain www.hrgb.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Incorporated Association of Organists www.iao.org.uk Facebook Twitter Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers www.labbs.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Lute Society www.lutesoc.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Making Music www.makingmusic.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Music and the Deaf www.matd.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Music for Youth www.mfy.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Accordion Organisation of the UK www.accordions.com/nao [email protected] Facebook National Association of Choirs www.nationalassociationofchoirs.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Early Music Association www.earlymusic.info National Harmonica League www.harmonica.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Youth Choirs of Great Britain www.nycgb.net [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Youth Jazz Orchestra www.nyjo.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Northumbrian Pipers' Society www.northumbrianpipers.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Organ Club www.organclub.org Facebook Piper's Guild www.pipersguild.org Royal School of Church Music www.rscm.com [email protected] Facebook Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association www.rspba.org Facebook Twitter Sing for Pleasure www.singforpleasure.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Society of Recorder Players www.srp.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Sound Sense www.soundsense.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter The Concert Band Portal www.concert-bands.co.uk [email protected] Twitter Traditional Youth Marching Band Association www.tymba.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter Viola da Gamba Society www.vdgs.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Wind Band Association of the UK www.windbandassociation.co.uk [email protected] Women in Music UK www.womeninmusic.org.uk [email protected] Youth Music www.youthmusic.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Performance Circus Arts Forum www.circusarts.org.uk Facebook Twitter Independent Street Arts Network www.isanuk.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter Magic Circle www.themagiccircle.co.uk Facebook Twitter National Association of Street Artists www.nasauk.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Rural Touring Forum www.nrtf.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Photography Disabled Photographers Society www.disabledphotographers.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Photographic Alliance of Great Britain www.thepagb.org.uk [email protected] Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain www.rps.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter Textiles Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers www.wsd.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Batik Guild www.batikguild.org.uk Facebook Braid Society www.braidsociety.com [email protected] Facebook British Tapestry Group www.thebritishtapestrygroup.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Cross Stitch Guild www.thecrossstitchguild.com [email protected] Facebook Twitter Embroiderers' Guild www.embroiderersguild.com [email protected] Facebook Guild of Needle Laces www.guildofneedlelaces.org Facebook Guild of Silk Painters www.silkpainters-guild.co.uk Facebook International Feltmakers Association www.feltmakers.com [email protected] Facebook Twitter Knitting & Crochet Guild www.kcguild.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Lace Guild www.laceguild.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter Lace Society www.thelacesociety.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Quilters' Guild of the British Isles www.quiltersguild.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Ring of Tatters www.ringoftatters.org.uk [email protected] Textile Society www.textilesociety.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter UK Hand Knitting Association www.ukhandknitting.com [email protected] Facebook Twitter Visual Art Association of Illustrators www.theaoi.com [email protected] Facebook Twitter Engage - the National Association for Gallery Education www.engage.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Acrylic Painters Association www.napauk.com [email protected] Facebook SAA Society for All Artists www.saa.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter UK Coloured Pencil Society www.ukcps.co.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Youth Action for Children's Arts www.childrensarts.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Ambition UK www.ambitionuk.org [email protected] Twitter British Youth Band Association www.byba.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Music for Youth www.mfy.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Association of Youth Theatres www.nayt.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs www.nfyfc.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Youth Choirs of Great Britain www.nycgb.net [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Youth Jazz Orchestra www.nyjo.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter National Youth Theatre of Great Britain www.nyt.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Traditional Youth Marching Band Association www.tymba.org [email protected] Facebook Twitter Youth Music www.youthmusic.org.uk [email protected] Facebook Twitter Note: This is a listing of external organisations and Voluntary Arts is not responsible for the accuracy of the listings or the content on external sites. Email addresses are included where these are obviously that of the organisation, but those that are personal in form are excluded for data protection reasons. If you are a representative of a network or umbrella body and want to update or add your information to the listings above, please contact [email protected] See our Practical Help section for more info on finding support in your local area.