    SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE VOLUNTARY ARTS Become a registered supporter Arts and crafts activities unlock potential, eradicate apathy and build strong, happy, independent and fulfilled communities. Local people play a vital part in offering many thousands of opportunities to participate in the arts and crafts on a voluntary / amateur basis. These activities include dance, drama, literature, music, visual arts, embroidery, potter, lace making, applied arts, festivals and many other activities.
Voluntary Arts England works across England and OUR MISSION is to work towards an empowered, participative, fulfilled and healthy civil society by promoting practical participation in the arts and crafts. We do this primarily by advocating for increased resources to voluntary and amateur arts and crafts participation, sharing best practice and empowering ordinary people to make, do, promote and present the arts and crafts for themselves. We raise awareness of the contribution that arts participation makes to the well-being of communities, social inclusion, lifelong learning, active citizenship and volunteering. If you think that voluntary & amateur arts are important, then join us! There’s no membership charge. We’re raising recognition of your work, not money for ours. DOWNLOAD & COMPLETE THE FORM TO BECOME A REGISTERED SUPPORTER (doc - 43k) Show Your Support for the Voluntary Arts! Print out, fill out, sign the form and return it to Voluntary Arts England, PO Box 1056, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE99 1UE.
ALREADY REGISTERED AS A SUPPORTER OF THE VOLUNTARY ARTS: Aark Design
Age Concern Nottingham & Nottinghamshire
All England Theatre Festival
Amanda Trought, Reality Arts
Areley Kings Village Hall, Stourport on Severn
Arts Award
Arts Circuite Voluntary Group, London
Artworks Creative Communities
Bea Atkinson, Publicity Officer, Felling Stage Society
Beaumont College, Lancaster
Benjamin Oppong-Danquah, freelance artist
Berkeley Ranby MBE
Booster Cushion Theatre
BrightSparks: Arts in Mental Health Group, Leicester
Broad Eye Windmill, Stafford
Brent Adult & Community Education Service
Brian Bell, Be Brave Fundraising Consultancy
British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild
Bromley Little Theatre
Carmenza Duarte Valleso
Catherine Hirst, London
Chelmsford Marquetry Group
Chichester Volunteer Centre
Chris Coffey, Co founder of the St Helens Arts & Crafts Network
Chisenhale Art Place
Chromazone, Arts group, Cumbria
Claire Curtis, Charity Administrator
Colin McGowan, Chair, Locus Arts
Collective Encounters
Community Media Association
Concert4Kingston
Crest Waltham Forest, EVOLVE Project
Cultural Policy Unit, Cumbria County Council
Dacon Trust, Training centre for adults with special needs
Dance Around The World
David Brownlee
Dawn Van Win, Volunteer
Dion Sears, Arts Development Officer, CEDA (Community Equality Disability Action)
DIVA (Development Initiatives for Voluntary Arts), Wakefield
Dorothy Love, Individual artist, London
Eileen Cowles, Shropshire
Federation for Community Development Learning
Feltworld, Staffordshire
Fenland Arts, Cambridgeshire
Fleetwood Theatre Festival Committee
Francesca Raphaely, Community Engagement Officer, Audiences London
Friction Arts, Birmingham
Full Circle Arts
Gateshead Arts Association
Georgian Theatre Royal
Gerald Pegnall, Individual Volunteer
Green Door Open Access Printmaking Studio
Hand in Hand Theatre Productions, Merseyside.
Harps North West
Hastings Art Forum
Healing Our Past Experiences (HOPE Groups)
Helen Lesowiec
Helen Mathers, Board Member, Sheffield City Opera
Heritage Singers, arts group, Leeds
Hilary Lane, Cultural Strategy Manager
Ian Martin, General Manager, The Pound Arts Trust LTD
Iberian Folk Dancers
Independent Arts, Newport
Jack Pudsey, Grimsby
James Alexander Gale, Winchester
Jessica Nabb, Musician
John R Whitworth, artist / volunteer
Jude Stoll, RAW (Recycled Art Workshops), Cumbria
Kirsty Smith, Artist
Leicester Symphony Orchestra
Lichfield Mysteries
Liz Light, Director, Stage 2
Making Music (East Midlands)
Maldon Festival of Arts
Mandy Mercer, Churchfields School
Maria Silmon, Digital/Video Artist
Maya Harrison, Pontefract Museum
Meeting Voices Community Choir
Mercia Arts
Mike Webb, Organiser, Welborne Arts Festival
Newhampton Arts Centre
Norfolk Youth Music Trust
Northumbria Lacemakers
Norton Fitzwarren Village Hall
One Community
Open Art (Towcester and South Northants)Ouseburn Trust
Outside in Pathways to Learning in Museums and Galleries
Pablo Sultana, artist / volunteer
Paintings in Hospitals
Peshkar Productions
Phoenix Arts & Cultural Community Group Project Ltd
Pitshanger Poets
Professor Brian Groombridge
Puppet Planet
The Quilters' Guild of The British Isles
Revolutionary Arts Group
Roger James, artist / designer
Roger Kohn
Romily Meredith, Lauderdale House
Romsey Beggars Fair
Rowan Humberstone, Cambridge
Samantha Williams, Chair, Out of the Blue
Sarah Cook, Community Arts Development Officer
Sarah Helen Dimmer, Norfolk
Sarah Richardson
Sayma A Shahid, Student
Sebastian May, Artist - Belgium
Siobhan Kierans, Artistic Director, Tribe of Doris
South East Folk Arts Network (SEFAN)
Southbank Mosaics CIC
Spittal Improvement Trust
St. Alban's Players
St. Pauls Operatic Society, Wallasey, Wirral
start, Milton Keynes
Stables Gallery and Arts Centre, Brent Arts Council
stARtle, Derbyshire
StreetVibes Youth
Surrey Arts
Susan Comer, Artsist, Liverpool
Swamp Circus Trust
TableNine Productions
Talent Street, Peterborough
Teri Lang, Development Manager, Newlyn Art Gallery
Terry Kemp
Thadian Pillai, Art Gardens Landscape
The Gallery, Pewsey
The Oxford Sinfonia
The Settlement
The Staffordshire Band
The Welcome Project, Newcastle upon Tyne
Think Make Grow Ltd
Thwaites Empire Theatre Trust, Blackburn
Tideswell Theatre
Tressa Lapham-Green, Morvah Action for the Community & Arts
Undaja, Northumberland
Uniting the Nations Festival
Virginia Hunt, Arts Coordinator, Cheshire
Wiltshire Folk Arts
Women in Music Festival
Words, Signs and Vibes
Wymondham Arts Forum
York Musical Theatre Company
York Rising Stars Theatre Group
York Settlement Community Players (YSCP) |
