Making Connections with the Cultural Commissioning Programme

Lucie StephensHead of Co-production, NEF

Outline

• Introducing the Cultural Commissioning Programme

• Sharing our recent research• Outlining the ‘Making Connections’ work

• Arts & cultural organisations better able to engage with public sector commissioning

• Public service commissioners more

aware of potential for arts & cultural organisations to deliver outcomes

 

Outcomes

Arts & Cultural organisations

Public Service Commissioners

Policy makers & influencers

CCP workstreams

Learning programme – A&Cs commission ready

Social impact seminars

National conferences & events – good practice, awareness raising

High level round tables – engagement at strategic / policy level

Policy /pub affairs input

Case studies, online resources, evidence library, information, guidance

Online resources: http://bit.ly/1FUuYe8

Locality Programme - support to 5 local areas (Birmingham, Derby, Manchester, Torbay and York)

Commissioning partners – pilots in Kent (L.A. led) and Gloucestershire (CCG led) generate shared learning

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Value delivered

Encourage sustained participation

Addresses inclusivity and difference

Effective working in preventative agenda

Use of existing community assets

Place and inclusion

Health and well-being

Life skills

Identity

Safe way to explore difference

Regeneration

Engaging with seldom-heard

voicesRoute into education

Pride and

identity

Reduced social isolation

Social bonding

Personal communication

tool

Physical health

Addressing stigma

Community cohesion

Cognitive and

creative skills

Social skills (confidence,

teamwork etc.)

Route into employment

Mental health recovery

Reintegration into society

Outcomes Outcome

Mental healthWell-being

Education and learningEmployment and training

Physical healthInclusion/ participation / community cohesion

Crime and public safetyRegeneration

Conservation and environmentSubstance use

HousingFinance / legal

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Groups who are involved

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BeneficiaryChildren

Young peopleOlder/ retired people

People with disabilities

Seldom heard communities

Local communitiesGeneral public

Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities (BAME)Refugees / Asylum seekers

AdultsGender specific

Heart n Soul

• Allsorts is a place where adults with learning disabilities can try new arts activities, meet new people and have fun

• It takes place at the Albany Theatre on Thursdays. • People can take part in a range of workshops from dance,

cartoon drawing to circus skills, DJ-ing, Bhangra dancing and open mic sessions.

• It costs £5 for the day which can be paid from a personal budget

• This short film demonstrates how Heart n Soul touches and changes people’s lives

Meet me @ the Albany

• A creative arts club for the over 60s that asks:‘What could be possible if the isolated old were supported to attend their local arts centre, instead of a day centre?’• A regular meeting place where participants can

become involved in creative workshops, experience performances from leading artists or simply sit back and enjoy the atmosphere, as we can see in this brief video they’ve put together.

• Arts & cultural organisations are engaged in public service commissioning – but win significantly less in terms of contract value than rest of voluntary sector

• Excluding Arts Council funding, a typical arts organisation received 1/3 less public funding than a typical charitable organisation (2011/12 figs)

• Tend to be small to medium sized organisations so can struggle with standard commissioning processes

Source: ‘Opportunities for Alignment’, NPC – published by Cultural Commissioning Programme, 2014

Position of arts and cultural sector

Making Connections eventsAlready held events on• Wellbeing• Social prescribing• Dance and health• Housing and community cohesion

Forthcoming events • Creative approaches to improve dementia care – 11th Dec, Bristol • Uncovering what’s on your doorstep: how to co-produce with arts and cultural

organisations to improve health and wellbeing – 3rd Feb, London • The art of positive mental health: the role that arts and cultural activities can play to

support positive mental health – 22nd Feb, Wakefield• The Art of ageing well – 3rd March, Oxford

Reserve a place here, http://bit.ly/1GKDSB7