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  • CIDA (Cultural Industries Development Agency)
    address
    Business Development Centre, 7-15 Greatorex Street, London E1 5NF
    contact
    telephone
    020 7247 4710

    CIDA - the Cultural Industries Development Agency, is a specialist support organisation for the creative and cultural sector offering services to individuals, new and existing businesses and not-for-profit organisations. Some of the courses they reguarly run are: First Steps to get freelancers and new businesses moving in the right direction, Creative Business Club offering knowledge through networking and intensive support to existing businesses, Digital Women's Club supporting women wanting to work in the creative digital sector and Sustain to Gain helping arts organisations and cultural groups become more sustainable. The also have updated lists of Jobs.

  • Artsplan
    address
    23 Basepoint,, Anderson Road, Southampton, SO14 5FE
    telephone
    02380 682 535

    Artswork, an independent youth arts development agency committed to developing creative opportunities for young people aged 12-25, has developed Artsplan, a dedicated training and publications site. Artsplan offers training for individuals and organisations; publications to advise and inspire professionals working with young people and the arts acting as a resource for anyone looking to develop their skills, knowledge and creative ideas within youth arts; and guidelines to provide a useful introduction into specialist subject areas such as cultural diversity, disability, and young people at risk, with many complimenting current Artsplan training courses.

  • Clore Leadership Programme
    fax
    020 7420 9433
    telephone
    020 7420 9430
    address
    South Building, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA

    The Clore Leadership Programme, established in 2003 by the Clore Duffield Foundation, is an initiative to strengthen leadership across the arts. Applications are open to any EU resident who has had at least five years' work experience, in the cultural sector or beyond. The flexibly designed fellowship will normally last for one year, during which Clore Fellows will attend two intensive residential leadership courses, receive individual tuition and mentoring, extend their management experience through a high profile secondment and have an opportunity to engage in reflection and research. Fellows will have the option of remaining with their present employers, and following the course in stages, or of receiving a full-time bursary of GBP 20,000. Every year they offer General Fellowships and a number of Fellowships focused on particular specialisms or geographical areas, that change every year. The Short Courses have been designed for people in the middle ranks of cultural organisations or those at or near the top of smaller ones, and who have a minimum of five years' work experience. The teaching is a potent mixture of the practical and the academic, providing a large measure of intensive personal development, an examination of the nature of good leadership and an introduction to key areas of expert knowledge essential to effective cultural leadership.

  • Skillset: The Sector Skills Council for the Audio Visual Industries
    fax
    020 7520 5758
    telephone
    020 7713 9800
    address
    Focus Point, 21 Caledonian Road, London, N1 9GB

    Skillset is the Sector Skills Council for Broadcast, Film, Video and Interactive Media. Their aim is to make sure that people interested in getting into film, photography and animation have the right skills, so they can make sure that the UK industry remains competitive. The website is full of content that will be of interest to anyone who's in, or thinking of getting into, the industry. They also have information on funding.

  • Prevista
    address
    United House, North Road, London, N7 9DP
    telephone
    020 7609 4198

    Arts Enterprise South London is a development programme for emerging artists, based in Merton, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton, Croydon or Bromley. It aims to support people working in the culturally diverse arts sector to start to work independently and grow businesses successfully. It offers tailored advice and guidance; access to new networks; one-to-one support from industry specialists; training in areas relevant to your sector.

  • Artefacts Edutainment
    address
    The Albany, Douglas Way, London SE8
    telephone
    020 8691 2323

    Artefacts Edutainment have designed a programme of training courses and seminars that will assist artists in their quest for employment and self-employment.

  • Business Plan Services Ltd
    telephone
    0845 0574065

    Information and downloads from the website about starting your own business. They also run many workshops and offer free 30-minutes Business Plan Clinic Session.

  • Matt Roberts Arts
    address
    Unit 1, Camberwell Trading Estate, Denmark Rd, London SE5 9LB
    contact
    Amelia Redgrift

    Matt Roberts Arts is a not-for-profit organisation that works with early and mid career artists to aid their personal development plans and provide them with structured but informal educational opportunities. It is a voluntary organisation managed by emerging artists and curators providing ongoing professional development programme with different courses and internships. Also publish a free quarterly web based publication, 'art art art'.

  • Learning and Skills Council

    The Learning and Skills Council exists to make England better skilled and more competitive. Their single goal is to improve the skills of England's young people and adults to ensure a workforce of world-class standard. The LSC is a non departmental public body which began work in 2001, taking over the roles of the former Further Education Funding Council and Training and Enterprise Councils, and are responsible for planning and funding high quality education and training for everyone in England other than those in universities. Various locations around London, listed on their website.

  • Creative Learning Agency
    telephone
    01225 396 392

    Creative Learning Agency (CLA) is a publicly funded web-based news and information service which was set up in 2001 to provide educators and artists with information and support for arts education work. Creative Learning Agency works across the West of England, running a numbr of regular events.

  • AccessArt

    Free to access online resources designed to inspire and enable visual arts teaching and learning.

  • Business Plan Services Ltd
    contact
    Jane Khedair

    Information and downloads from the website about starting and growing your own business. They also run business plan workshops.

This article is from the Artlaw Archive of Henry Lydiate's columns published in Art Monthly since 1976, and may contain out of date material.
The article is for information only, and not for the purpose of providing legal advice.
Readers should consult a solicitor for legal advice on specific matters, and artists in London can get free online legal advice from Artquest