Training

This self-guided course offers the opportunity to hear from experts, develop new approaches and build your evaluation skills and confidence.

Who is this evaluation skills course for?

Arts, culture and heritage sector professionals, managers and practitioners keen to learn more about the fundamentals of robust evaluation practice
Cultural sector senior leaders and board members
Freelance artists and practitioners
Early career arts and heritage sector professionals
Early career funders and policymakers
Students and academics interested in cultural management

Funded by the Foyle Foundation, Expanding Horizons Traineeships offer an incredible opportunity for early career and emerging music artists to learn, practise and develop alongside highly experienced artists.

Forest School is an inspirational process, that offers ALL learners regular opportunities to achieve, develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on learning experiences in a woodland or natural environment with trees.

Our courses are designed to provide you with the theoretical understanding and the practical skills in order to design, develop and run (or support) your Forest School.

Led by Course Director Pete Brown, the GEM Foundation Course on Museum Learning virtually explores a variety of topics relating to learning in museums, heritage and cultural settings, from access and inclusion to interpretation, from management to evaluation, interrogating different ideas and approaches to help you develop your skills and understanding.

This training is for organisations commissioning and working with creative practitioners in the field of arts and health. This could include statutory and charitable organisations delivering community arts programmes (i.e social prescribing schemes) and arts organisations that commission artists. This training is not designed for individual artists.

Are you an artist working to support health and wellbeing? Come & join a safe non judgemental space and reflect on your work.
-Connect with a supportive community of creative health peers.
-Enhance your therapeutic skills & support self-care.
-Develop awareness of how your work impacts you including potential secondary trauma.
£10 a session, monthly online . Part funded by ESCC.

A 7-week online leadership programme, specially designed to empower creative minds to lead more equitable organisations.

100% of previous participants recommend the course to their peers! Are you ready to commit and drive change too? Do not delay!

The day will be an introduction to the work of two of the leading organisations delivering theatre in Criminal Justice settings: Clean Break and Geese Theatre Company.

Two days of practical music-making ideas for people working with children who have complex needs in health, education and care settings. We have a proven track record in designing hands-on, stimulating and enjoyable training for those working with children who have serious illness, learning difficulties, or disabilities. It is running in London on 7/8th November and in York on 11/12th November.