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Children & Young People, Children & Young People, Funding, Funding, Training

New Funding Resource Published for Workforce Development

The National Youth Council for Voluntary Services (NYCVS) has published the 5th edition of the Funding Guide for Workforce Development. The guide is aimed at employers, training providers and learners who work with children, young people and families in the VCS. A new addition this year is a section devoted to funding schemes for training providers.

For more information go to http://www.ncvys.org.uk/Funding.html

Arts, Children & Young People, Children & Young People, Training, Vacancies & Opportunities

Truth About Youth Festival Recruitment

Royal Exchange, Manchester

The Truth about Youth Festival will take place at the Royal Exchange from 16 – 29 July 2012. An imaginative explosion of talent and energy, the TaY Festival is fourteen days and nights of brand new theatre, music, art, cooking, film, workshops, dance and great debate… made by and with 1,000 Manchester teenagers. Made for everyone.

With only 5 months to go, we are now looking to recruit over 200 young people aged 14 – 21 to work with us to staff, promote and create work for the Festival.

There are opportunities in the following areas…

  • Technical Theatre
  • Writing
  • Directing
  • Promotions
  • Art & Design

 

If you would like to apply for any/all of these opportunities, then please email education@royalexchange.co.uk by Friday 2 March, letting us know which projects interest you, and telling us which one would be your top choice. We will try and make sure that everyone can take part in a project they are interested in – however, if too many people apply for one project then we will draw names from a hat.

We will let everyone know what project(s) they have been offered by Friday 16 March.

Children & Young People, Children & Young People, Training

Good practice guides for working with young people

The Big Lottery Fund has published 7 downloadable good practice guides for organisations working with young people.

Among the titles are ‘Actively involving young people’ and ‘Reducing anti-social behaviour’.

The guidelines may be downloaded in pdf form at http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/er_yp_gp.htm.

Arts, Arts & Health, Children & Young People, Community & Voluntary, Events, National, Seminars, Training

Engagement in the Arts 2012 Conference, Leeds

June 26, 2012
9:00 amto5:00 pm

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield: http://www.ysp.co.uk/contact-us 

£50 full fee /£30 student and other concessions

Hosted by Leeds Metropolitan University in Association with Cultural Trends journal:  

  • encompassing theory, policy and practice
  • encouraging networking between academics, policy makers and arts practitioners

 International concerns about levels of civic engagement in general and participation in the arts in particular have led to a growing body of statistical research into engagement in cultural activities.  In the UK the government’s Taking Part survey, started in 2006, suggests that participation in the arts here is low by comparison with some other European countries and that social status and levels of education remain key factors in levels of engagement. However, despite policy makers setting targets to address this, rates of cultural engagement and participation appear to steadfastly refuse to increase.
 
Since 2009 Leeds Metropolitan University, with the support of Arts Council England, have been coordinating a Knowledge Exchange Network on participation and engagement in the arts in the North of England. This conference is the culmination of this work and will bring together international academics, policy makers and practitioners to share research and debate issues affecting the whole cultural sector.
 
For more information please do not hesitate to contact us on participationandengagement-arts@leedsmet.ac.uk. To book a place please go to: http://tinyurl.com/7gu2hx4

Funding, Funding, Media, Training

MEDIA 2007 – Funding for training available

The final Call for Proposals for ‘continuous training’ under the MEDIA 2007 programme has now been launched.

This strand of MEDIA 2007 involves improving the continuous vocational training of professionals in the audiovisual sector in order to give them the skills needed to create competitive products for the European – and other – markets.

The Call offers a two-year framework partnership agreement, and has an indicative budget of €7 million.

The deadline for submissions is 16 April 2012.

For more information, visit http://ec.europa.eu/culture/media/programme/training/forms/index_en.htm