Jonathan Mace was Arts Fundraising Fellow for the Royal Shakespeare Company until September 2016, and now works as Development Manager at Hampstead Theatre. It’s incredibly important to have a consistent organisational image and style. In fact, I refer to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘Style Guide’ at least twice a day. I’ve learned that production titles are …
Patrick Reynolds was Arts Fundraising Fellow for the Royal Exchange Theatre until September 2016. In September I was privileged to be able to represent the Arts Fundraising Fellowship at the Manchester site of No Boundaries 2015 – the State of the Arts Conference which is now available to watch in its entirety online if you missed it. …
Sophie Mak-Schram was Arts Fundraising Fellow for Punchdrunk until September 2016, and has remained with the organisation as Development Assistant. Can the two professional arts fundraisers please email me?” read the mail-out. Nadja and I had ventured along to see how we could contribute towards the ambitions of DIY Space for London, a cooperative arts space in South London. …
Phoebe Wild was Arts Fundraising Fellow for Nuffield Theatre Southampton until September 2016, and is now Development Coordinator at Dartington Hall Trust. As someone that enjoys meeting new people I was pleased to hear at the beginning of my Fundraising Fellowship year that an important element of development work is getting to know people; building a rapport and …
Phoebe Walker was Arts Fundraising Fellow at the Bush Theatre until September 2015, is now the Education Coordinator at the Poetry Society. My final blog as an Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy Fellow takes the form of a confession – or rather, several confessions. When reflecting with my manager on my year at the Bush Theatre, what I’d …
Michaela Clayton, Arts Fundraising Fellow for People United, discusses the methods her organisation uses to measure the impact of its work on communities.
Sarah Bird was Arts Fundraising Fellow for New Writing North until September 2016, and now works as a freelance fundraiser. Recently, I’ve been pretty obsessed by BBC4’s new series, “Music for Misfits: The Story of Indie”. It started in 1977 with the DIY punk ethics of The Buzzcocks debut release, the Spiral Scratch EP, …
Sanpreet Janjua was Fellow for Nottingham Playhouse until September 2016, and has remained with the organisation as Development Officer. Earlier this month, I attended the Cinema For All conference , which was themed around the issue of diversity. Panel discussions on diversifying everything from programmes to operation panels were held and the Diversity Manager of the BFI, Deborah …
