West Midlands Regional Resources
Useful Documents
H&S template for music leaders
The Youth Music Action Zone for Herefordshire, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin have drafted a H&S template for Music Leaders to use. It’s an easy to complete checklist and also has a really useful overview, which artists should read and digest to ensure you are fully aware of all the areas you need to check when arriving at a venue and before you start delivering any workshops!
Full guidance about the vetting and barring Scheme is now avaliable.
This document contains details on the scope of the Scheme; Barring arrangements; Responsibilities and duties for both employers and volunteer organisers, and the duties for those individuals you take on; Timescales for the phased implementation of the Scheme; Explanation of transitional arrangements around Scheme introduction.
Plan your own route into teaching or leading music
A useful self help guide produced by the government.
Inclusion Inspires - Special Needs
This event was delivered in partnership with Youth Music and THSH and saw the national launch of the MusicLeader and Mencap guide "Music and people with a learning disability". For more information about this event and to download the guide please click here
Reports
Culture & Prosperity - The Economic Role of Culture in the West Midlands (2009)
New research produced by the West Midlands Cultural Observatory looks recent evidence associated with the economic impact of the cultural sector in the West Midlands.
Music Mapping: Staffordshire and Stoke-On-Trent (2008)
This document maps music provision across Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent, not in a geographical map, but this is more a plotting of what music is happening, and where.
Making a Noise: The economic impact of classical music in the West Midlands (2007)
Produced by Arts Council England.
Mencap have produced a new report Youth Arts Consultation (Young people with a learning disability) (2009) in partnership with the
Mencap arts team, Nokia UK and Arts Council England.
Not sure where to look for funding? This might help.
Governmentfunding.org
Intended to support access to government grants for the voluntary and community sector.
Voluntary Arts Network
VAN are a national organisation providing support and advice to arts organisations. They have a regularly updated list
of funding streams.
Grantnet
This site provides a search mechanism for project funding for small businesses, charitable and community groups.
DCMS Guide to Arts Funding in England, 2007
Useful West Midlands Regional Newsletters
Many of theses Sub-regional Newsletters, have additional funding infomation.
Dudley Performing Arts Newsletter
North Warwickshire Arden Arts Newsletter
Solihull Arts E-news
Coventry, Emerge
Arts Council West Midlands
