Upcoming Events
Wednesday 1st July 2009
Writing for Health Taster Day.
Suitable for anyone who is interested in how writing can improve physical and mental health wellbeing.
Of particular benefit to community and health workers
Fee: £50 including buffet lunch
To be held at the new City Library 33 New Bridge Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AX
For more information and to book places please go to our website
www.penandtonic.org or email penandtonic@btinternet.com
Closing date for bookings Wednesday 24th June 2009
Saturday 4th July 2009
Streatham Splash @ the Top of the Common
10 days of fun starts on the 4th of July with Splash @ the Top of the Common.
This year's theme is "Water", so come and see the Parade of the Giant River Beasts, join in with the workshops, learn about local history or cool down in the pool.
For a full listing of the 10 days of activities and more information of how to get involved visit www.streathamfestival.com
Volunteers available for arts organisations and projects.
As a partner on the One North East Cultural Volunteering Programme, AIDA CIC is able to find volunteers to support projects or for day-to-day running of arts organisations.
If you think you’ve got a role for volunteers in your activities, call AIDA CIC on 0191 262 1808 and we’ll tell you more about the programme.
- The package includes free training for the volunteers to suit your requirements
- There are no limits to the number of volunteers you can request
Access, Inclusion and Development in Arts (or AIDA for short) is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company that aims to help people develop arts projects. We support a wide range of arts projects, from those that involve only professional artists in artistic development or the creation of new work, to participatory community arts projects, festivals and performances.
AIDA arose out of a need to increase the support for arts projects to be developed, evaluated and sustained. Following an extensive market research period, where the business model underwent several stages of refinement, AIDA began trading in March 2007.
AIDA are a resident organisation in the Buddle Arts Centre, Wallsend, that they use as an accessible interface and base for a business which now extends throughout the North East.
Our stakeholders span a large cross-section of the community and include artists and arts organizations, community centres, residents associations, local authorities, universities and colleges. We work with many other social enterprises, including over 15% of the CICs in the North East, to help them to become involved with more arts projects.
Our activities aim to make projects more creative, fun, frequent and successful for everyone involved. We can help by writing funding applications for arts projects (which we do at no cost) and to attract sponsorship (which we only charge for if the sponsorship is successful). We also help to identify new project partners, helping projects to become more sustainable. We can help with publicity and brand development, which when combined with evaluation, can help to create a well-positioned and effective brand in the market.
Let us help you: have an AIDA idea.