Biswanath Byam Samiti Open Quiz 2022 by Qui9 Grand Finale
Clayton creative enterprise conference 2 may 2013
1. Developing a sustainable cultural enterprise
2 May 2013
Clayton Shaw, Operations manager, Sampad
0121 446 3271
2. About sampad
• Culturally specific organisation
• Over a twenty year track record
• Primary funders – Arts Council England and
Birmingham City Council
• Partnership with mac on a £15.2m building
project
• Continue to remain relevant
• Strong reputation
22. Current challenges
• Arts Council England cuts
• City Council cuts (still unknown)
• Above inflation rises to CPI
• VAT increase
• Low interest rate (trusts, bank interest)
• Less funding bodies, and less funding from those
that remain
• Increased competition for funds
• Government interest in philanthropy
• Unknown territories
23. Goals of working with Creative Bridge
We want to develop the organisation with viable
products and financially sustainable models that
will enable audiences and young people,
primarily from hard to reach communities, to
easily access the arts in ways that are attractive
to them, and to increase their learning,
engagement, and appreciation of South Asian
arts.
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31. In summary
Creative Bridge has helped us to:
• prioritise our programming decisions and
resources
•Better understand our strengths
•Establish new contacts and networks –
particularly in digital technology
Generally good to talk to experienced external
professionals
Professional development:Artists in SchoolsCLPCreative Leap
International:In the Further Soil – combined arts development, toured to India and UKDance Intense – Birmingham, India, Canada – developing new talent and increasing networks
Outreach Traditional dance in rural locationsArts Champions – working in local areas of Birmingham on long term projects. E.A.T exploring art through food.
Education – Young peopleGallery 37 project using parqourLite – issue based drama workshops in education and community settingsOut of Many One – next slide
Out of Many One brought together 20 schools and youth groups from diverse communities across Birmingham to celebrate sampad’s 20th anniversary.
We always try to keep an eye on the future in terms of:How audiences/people consume cultureThe
Adapting to the changing world around us
Our reference points:Medialab Prado – a major influence and long term project partnerJugando con NumerosVisualizarExchangelab, a professional development to upskill creative professionals, artists, curators and producers in the various applications of digital technology in partnership with Medialab Prado, Madrid, and now with Ars Electroinica, Austria, and STRP, Netherlands through a follow on project called SEPP:Digital; OPPORTUNITIES – to discover new ways of working
The idea for this project stemmed from previous work we had done with local young people (those aged between 15 and 18), as part of our radiu5 project. We learnt that young people were interested in using digital technology compared to our more traditional approaches
sampad does not currently use gaming technology in its generaleducation and outreach projects,despite a recent report by the Gaming Steering Group that stated 33 million people in the UK play video games, which is just over half of the UK’s population. All these issues present new opportunities, as there is obviously scope for this kind of product.
Assessing trends – income and expenditure of various programme strandsAngela Maxwell – Business consultant helped to focus our ‘business’ brains. Drawing together data we were able to ask questions such as:What do we want to do?What can we afford to do?What should we do less/more of?
Shared approach I brought in the director and the programme manager – for a shared approachWe jointly understood the problems and the solutionsto spread the responsibility, knowledge, concerns, and new areas of focus and motivation.
This enabled us to better understand our strengths as an organisation.It also enabled us to look at what we should be doing that we’re not doing. E.g:Fundraising – should we build sponsorship relationships? How much time should we commit to trust funding? Can Crowd funding work for Sampad?Developing corporate contacts (SMT) – tested with Mandala, relationships started e.g. BIDs, B100
Concentration on selling new ways of working to agencies such as HLF, and trusts.E.g. Using AR and Data vis for community heritage projects
Ensuring have a sales strategy in place – particularly for our education products and projects, and monitoring progress.Being more business-likeConcentrating on the bottom lineBeing financially viableMaking those hard decisions – particularly around our programme activitiesScenario planning for reduced public funding
Another example of work we did with Creative Bridge DevLabDigitally we are experimenting with new collaborations to produce innovative and inspiring work.Finding new ways of working with technology organisationsMy Route AR and Data Vis providers came through DevLab.
Helping hands.Continued valuable on-going support on a more informal basis.Strong understanding of the organisation’s strengths, skills, and growth areas