Development Associate 2020 – 2022
Axis is a membership charity that supports contemporary visual arts in the UK with resources, opportunities, and platforms to support and showcase work. During this period, I worked alongside the CEO, building a new business plan for the charity that focuses on providing arts-based services across the UK. This has included diversifying income streams, having secured funding from new sources such as Artfund, Arts Council England and the Arts & Humanities Research Council as well as maintaining strategic relationships with key stakeholders. I led on fundraising that brought £10,000 from Artfund for the Social Art Library and £79,000 from Arts Council Project Grant for Social ARTery; Two new platforms launched with the aim to gather and build resources around hybrid/blended participatory art. I was also responsible for the restructuring and redeveloping of Job Designs, allowing all employees to become part of a holistic working team.
- Work alongside CEO and a team of 5 in an artist membership charity providing arts based services across the UK
- Developed and launched two new platforms for social practice: Social Art Library (online database of work) Social ARTery (action learning commissioning and resource building around hybrid/blended participatory art)
- Developed new business plan for the charity which included milestones around diversifying income streams, sustainably grow the charity’s work across the UK and develop new beneficial partnerships for the charity. Recent successes have included securing funding from new sources including Artfund, Arts Council England and Arts & Humanities Research Council. I have formed new strategic partnerships in Government Levelling up areas across the UK with creative sector and local authority partners to grow the reach of the charity and its memberships.
- Develop and maintain strategic relationships with key funders and stakeholders including local authority Councillors and officers in Sheffield, Creativity Works (arts & mental health charity), Socially Engaged Arts Salon (Brighton).
- Successful grant applications include: £10,000 from Artfund for Social Art Library, £35,000 from Arts Council for Emergency Covid Relief funds, £79,000 from Arts Council Project Grant for Social ARTery, £90,000 from AHRC for Social Art for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion fellowship.
- Created a new programme of restructuring and redeveloping Job Designs in relation to the corporate strategies, resulting in new updated job descriptions for all employees including clear roles and responsibilities between each team member as a holistic working team rather than independent workers.