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Exploring the Contribution of Arts and Culture to Education and Wellbeing in Norfolk
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Exploring the Contribution of Arts and Culture to Education and Wellbeing in Norfolk
Thursday 19 May 2016
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
Cllr Paul Smyth
Communities Committee
Norfolk County Council
Exploring the Contribution of Arts and
Culture to Education and Wellbeing in
Norfolk
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Cllr Paul Smyth, Norfolk County Council
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Overweight
Obesity
Diabetes
Dementia
Isolation
Loneliness
Miserable
Depression
Individual
Group
Community
Cllr Paul Smyth, Norfolk County Council
AIM:
To make concrete progress toward strengthening the contribution Arts & Culture can make to education and
wellbeing in Norfolk
Cllr Paul Smyth, Norfolk County Council
Health and Wellbeing as Part of the Holistic Case for the Arts
Hedley SwainArea Director, South East
19 May 2016
Gecko Theatre: MissingPhoto © Richard Haughton
#culturematters
Hedley Swain, Arts Council England
Arts Council England’s role is to champion,develop and invest in arts and culture in England
#culturematters
Hedley Swain, Arts Council England
Our mission is ‘Great art and culture for everyone’
#culturematters
Hedley Swain, Arts Council England
Holistic Case Arts and culture give us joy, let us reflect and help us empathise. They benefit us economically, socially and educationally.
#culturematters SprungDigi participants from QEII School Photo © Stephen Candy
Hedley Swain, Arts Council England
Holistic Case
#culturematters
Hedley Swain, Arts Council England
Health and Wellbeing and Arts
bOing! Festival, Gulbenkian TheatrePhoto © Manu Palomeque
#culturematters
Hedley Swain, Arts Council England
Culture White Paper
“we will promote the role that culture has in building stronger and healthier communities and boosting economic growth”
Turner Contemporary on Margate BayPhoto © Benjamin Beker
#culturematters
Hedley Swain, Arts Council England
Arts Council:
Research
Regularly funded organisations
Funded projects
Partnerships
One Million at Brighton FestivalPhoto © Dan Dennison
#culturematters
Hedley Swain, Arts Council England
Examples:
Hoot Creative Arts
City Arts
Older people and Arts
Project Artworks
People United
© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Robert Workman
#culturematters
Hedley Swain, Arts Council England
Thank you
Hedley Swain
Our House Cast, New Wolsey TheatrePhoto © Mike Kwasniak
#culturematters
Hedley Swain, Arts Council England
Norfolk Arts Forum
Exploring the Contribution of Arts and Culture to Education and Wellbeing in Norfolk
19th May 2016
Directly and Indirectly, Happiness, Wellbeing and Empowerment are Within Our Grasp
Venu Dhupa
Visiting Prof. Nottingham Trent University
and VSDB Consultancy
RESEARCH REFERENCES / PAPERS
• Playfully engaging people living with dementia: searching for Yum Cha moments. Dunn J, Balfour M, Moyle, W, Cooke M, Martin K, Clark C, Yen A. (Dec 2013)
• Study Protocol for a radmonized controlled trial of humour therapy in residential care: the Sydney Multisite Intervention of Laughter Bosses and Elderclowns (SMILE). Goodenough B, Lee-Fay L, Casey A-N, Chenoweth L, Fleming R, Spetzer P, Bell J-P, Brodaty H (Mar 2012)
• Tackling Indifference: Clowning, Dementia, and the Articulation of a Sensitive Body, Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 31, 459-476. Hendriks R. (2012)
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• The Effect of Care Clowns on Elderly Suffering with Dementia. By Daniëlle S.J. Branje MSc Maaike van Apeldoorn MSc Dr. Miek C. Jong, supported by the Louis Bolk Institute (2013)
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• Kontos, P., Miller, K.L., Mitchell, G., Stirling-Twist, J. Presence redefined: The reciprocal nature of engagement between elder-clowns and persons with dementia. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice. (2015).
• Olszewska, I. & Zarow, M. Does music during dental treatment make a difference? J Dent Res 82, (2003).
• Goff, L. C., Rebollo Pratt, R. & Madriga, J. L. Music listening and S-IgA levels in patients undergoing a dental procedure. Int. J. Arts Med. 5, 22–26 (1997).
• Music as an Alternative Therapy Method in Dentistry. By M Jovanovic-Medojevic, J Neskovic, A Medojevic
• Hoffman, H. G. et al. The Effectiveness of Virtual Reality for Dental Pain Control: A Case Study. Cyberpsychol. Behav. 4, 527–535 (2001).
• Ram, D. et al. Audiovisual video eyeglass distraction during dental treatment in children. Quintessence Int. Berl. Ger. 1985 41, 673–679 (2010).
• Design Council. Reducing violence and aggression in A&E: Through a better experience. (Design Council, 2013). at http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/ae-design-challenge
• Benefits of Narrative Therapy: holistic interventions at end of life. A Noble and C Jones (2005)
• Just listening: Narrative and Deep Illness. Fam.Syst Health. A Frank (1998)
• Meaning Construction in Palliative Care. The use of Narrative, Ritual and the Expressive Arts. B D Romanoff and B E Thompson (2006)
• Contradiction, collaboration and criticality: Researching empowerment and citizenship in community-based arts. By A Rooke (2012)
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• Do community-based arts projects result in social gains? A review of literature. By T Newman, K Curtis and J Stephens (2001)
• Voter Empowerment: a case study with women in Hyderabad. Evaluation report by V Dhupa (2007)
• All Party Parliamentary Group: Arts for Health and Well-Being – notes from selected meetings (2016)
Professor Venu Dhupa
RESEARCH REFERENCES / WEBSITES
• http://www.londonbubble.org.uk/projectpage/participatory-groups/
• www.heartsminds.org.uk/
• http://www.123rf.com/stock-photo/palliative_care.html
• http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/ae-design-challenge
• https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Map+of+Hyderabad+and+the+region&biw=1920&bih=971&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X
&ved=0ahUKEwjy2MO-19nMAhVKaRQKH
• http://www.eapcnet.eu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=wZjuEG-Jtl4%3D&tabid=608
• https://www.kcl.ac.uk/Cultural/-/Projects/Arts,%20Health%20and%20Wellbeing.aspx
• www.jofairfaxstudio.com
• www.creativityjournal.net
• www.alzheimers.org.uk
Professor Venu Dhupa
National Developments in Arts, Health and Wellbeing.
Professor Norma Daykin
Exploring the Contribution of Arts and Culture to Education and Wellbeing in Norfolk.
Thursday 19th May 2016Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
Recent Developments
• Arts, Health & Wellbeing Research
• Practice
• Policy
Professor Norma Daykin
Growing research evidence base
• Clinical outcomes in hospital settings
• Health and wellbeing for specific populations and health conditions:
mental health, older people, COPD,
dementia.
• RCTs, mixed methods and qualitative
research• Staricoff (2004); Staricoff & Clift (2011); Sarkoma et al. 2013;
• Cochrane reviews; Journals, e.g. Arts & Health
Professor Norma Daykin
Practice
• National Alliance/LAFH.
• International Conference, Bristol, June 2017.
• RSPH, PHE and ADPH Special Interest Groups.
• Arts and health/wellbeing – arts therapies -
commonalities.
Professor Norma Daykin
Policy
• What Works for Wellbeing - CSW Evidence Review
(Victor et al. in process).
• Cultural Commissioning & Social Prescribing.
• APPG.
• PHE Evaluation Framework (Daykin with Joss, 2015).
Professor Norma Daykin
Findings from Knowledge Exchange (Daykin et al. 2013)
• Consensus about the need for robust
evidence.
• Low consensus about how to evaluate
• Lack of agreed evaluation frameworks,
methods & tools.
• Artists feel marginalised in policy &
evaluation discourse.
Professor Norma Daykin
Creative and Credible
• Collaboration between Willis Newson
and UWE, Bristol.
• One year knowledge exchange project
funded by ESRC, completed August
2015.
• Evaluation resources for the arts and
health sector.
Professor Norma Daykin
Project methods
• Stakeholder Reference Group.
• Survey, workshops, interviews, focus groups and round table discussions.
• Development of website and
resources.
Professor Norma Daykin
The Evaluation Cycle
Professor Norma Daykin
Survey respondents
• 25 returns:
Project managers (12); researchers (10); independent evaluators (7);
arts practitioners (6); commissioners and funders (7); health care
practitioners (2).
• 52 evaluations across a range of art forms,
populations and settings.
Professor Norma Daykin
Survey findings
• Wide range of methodologies including controlled
studies (4) and cost effectiveness (4).
• Extensive anecdotal evaluation.
• 16/25 have never used creative methods despite
recognised strengths.
Professor Norma Daykin
Satisfaction with commissioning
"I am satisfied with the process of matching needs and expectations between project evaluation and
funders/commissioners"
Professor Norma Daykin
Survey findings: working with commissioners
• Managing expectations.
• Language and cultural differences.
• Methodological conventions and requirements.
• Hierarchy of evidence.
• Artistic views hold little traction.
• Importance of collaboration.
Professor Norma Daykin
Whose outcomes?
‘Is it commissioners’ outcomes, is it the artists’
outcomes, is it the participants’ outcomes? We may all
be going down different roads here,’(FG1).
Professor Norma Daykin
Qualitative themes: opportunities
… dementia is a bit of an open door generally because it’s seen that medical solutions are not gonna work… (Service
provider).
• if we didn’t continue to commission where would these people go?... (Commissioner).
Professor Norma Daykin
Qualitative themes: Scaling Up?
• Larger, replicable interventions and infrastructure development
versus
• Uniqueness and ‘voice’.
Professor Norma Daykin
Themes: evaluation challenges
• Structural and cultural barriers.
• Inflexible, obtrusive frameworks & tools.
• Competing priorities: outcomes & budgets.
• Arts providers feel disadvantaged – fragility.
• Low resourcing of evaluation.
• ‘Burden’ of evaluation.
• Evaluation versus research.
Professor Norma Daykin
Evaluation frameworks
‘He is using a magnifying glass to study animal
tracks, where in fact he is about to have his head
bitten off by a lion. Is he using the right tool for the
task and is he using it the right way and has he got
a sense of scale and is he aware of the risks?’ (FG1)
Professor Norma Daykin
Improving evaluation practice
• Standardisation?
… I know in other areas… they have … standard evaluation
frameworks for obesity, healthy eating, physical activity… it was quite useful (to have) just a checklist of what things you should collect (Commissioner).
Professor Norma Daykin
Themes: improving evaluation practice
• Methodological awareness
Yeah, so I think with qualitative stuff… I don’t think there’s a
thematic analysis going on for qualitative feedback, but there might be some cherry picking (Commissioner).
Professor Norma Daykin
Improving evaluation practice
• Coproduction
… that makes the evaluation stronger because then you get better buy in… if you design it on your own, you’re never gonna
satisfy everyone … those that are co-produced … are more … successful
because you’ve got buy in from the right people (Commissioner).
Professor Norma Daykin
Creative and Credible: Conclusions
• Arts – challenged to evidence their work; unsure how
to engage with current initiatives; unequal power relationships.
• Commissioners – pragmatic; support realistic and
proportionate assessment; information requirements.
Professor Norma Daykin
What Works Wellbeing CSW?
• Consultation with 52 CSW stakeholders,
August and December 2015.
• Explored definitions of wellbeing and the
populations, settings and interventions
most likely to produce wellbeing
outcomes.
• 40 (74.07%) completed a two stage
DELPHI.
Professor Norma Daykin
10 priority statements
1. We need a common definition of wellbeing on which to base evaluation and research.
2. Evidence is needed to secure and maintain funding for culture and
sport.
3. Evaluation should identify what doesn’t work as well as what works.
4. (Evidence) review should encompass evidence produced by a diverse
group of stakeholders.
5. (Evidence) should include rigorous qualitative evidence in culture and support.
Professor Norma Daykin
10 priority statements
6. Quality assessment – has evaluation been informed by the views of those who take part in culture and sport?
7. Key dimensions of wellbeing: confidence and self-esteem, coping and resilience, belonging and social identity.
8. Populations: general population: open access community-based culture and sport.
9. Settings: community-based culture, sport and leisure.
10. Interventions: Group based interventions led by a volunteer or peer.
Professor Norma Daykin
Nuanced views
• Service providers more likely to favour embedded
evaluation including anecdotal reports and testimonials.
• Commissioners and managers more likely to support
case studies and stories.
• Scholars more likely to support independent
evaluation.
Professor Norma Daykin
Review topic (1st of four)
• A systematic review of the wellbeing outcomes of
music and singing of adults (15+ years) and the processes by which wellbeing outcomes are
achieved.
• To include ‘grey literature’ – call for reports.
Professor Norma Daykin
PHE guidelines
• Standard Evaluation Framework.
• Reporting tool in two sections.
• 1 = project description, including activities, setting, requirements, quality
assurance and costs per participant.
• 2 = evaluation - diverse methodologies.
Professor Norma Daykin
Project reporting
• Can the project be reproduced based
on your description?
• Does your project work equally well in
different settings?
• Project management, quality assurance, ethics, consent and risk
management.
• Core staff competencies & training.
• Full costs per participant.
Professor Norma Daykin
Evaluation reporting
• Evaluation aims (not project aims).
• Evaluation rationale.
• Theory of change & logic modelling.
• Evaluation procedures.
• Knowledge & skills.
• Ethics, consent & governance.
Professor Norma Daykin
Websites:
• http://creativeandcredible.co.uk
• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arts-for-health-and-wellbeing-an-evaluation-framework
• http://whatworkswellbeing.org
Professor Norma Daykin
Recognising the value of art for health and wellbeing
David McDaid
PSSRU, London School of Economics and Political Science
Norfolk Arts Forum,
Norwich Castle Museum, 18 May 2016
E-mail: [email protected]
Importance of economic case for decision making
• Importance for CCGs and Local Authorities of demonstrating a return on investment for health (if they are to financially support art for health).
• Helping to allow arts in health to be judged on a level playing field vis a vis other potential interventions by assessing economic case
• Using economic techniques can be used to look at the short, mid and long term costs and benefits of effective art interventions.
• Can also be used to quantify benefits that go beyond health sector – important for encouraging cross sectoral investment
David McDaid
• Wide review of literature
• “case that subjective wellbeing influences health and longevity compelling”
• Between 4 and 10 years additional healthy life expectancy
David McDaid
Four key economic questions to inform decision making
• The costs of inaction: What are the economic consequences of not addressing health problems?
• The costs of action: What would it cost to intervene by promotion, prevention, treatment and recovery?
• The cost-effectiveness of action: What is the balance between cost of intervention and better outcomes, e.g. health status, improved quality of life, employment or educational performance etc?
• The levers for change: What economic and other incentives can encourage more use of those interventions that are thought to be cost-effective and less use of those interventions which are not?
David McDaid
Economic evaluation
The effectiveness question:
Does this intervention work?
The economic question:
Is it worth it?
David McDaid
Two Basic Needs: (A) Costs and Outcomes; (B) 2+ Alternatives
Outcomes (e.g. Quality of Life Years (QALYs) for intervention X
Costs for intervention X
Costs for intervention Z Outcomes (e.g
Quality of Life Years (QALYs) for intervention Z
David McDaid
Realising the value: some examples from arts & culture
David McDaid
Community Group Singing
Brit Journal of Psychiatry 2015, 207 (3) 250-255
David McDaid
Economic case for investment
• Silver Song Clubs’ 258 older people, 84% women, mean age 69, 5 clubs in
East Kent, almost all White British
• 14 weeks of professionally led singing programmes; comparators – usual
activities.
• At 6 month follow up significant improvement in SF-12 mental scores;
2.35 mean difference (p<0.05); No significant impact on service use costs
• Potentially cost effective – 60% chance of being cost effective if
£20,000 per QALY gained
David McDaid
Fujiwara, Lawton & Mourato 2015 – www.artscouncil.org.uk
David McDaid
Economic case for investment
• Library usage is associated with higher life satisfaction, higher happiness
and a higher sense of purpose in life (although usage was also associated
with higher levels of anxiety).
• Being a regular library user is associated with a 1.4% increase in the
likelihood of reporting good general health.
• Potential reductions just in GP visits estimated to be £27.5 million per
year
• There will also be other be other benefits to NHS & other sectors
David McDaid
Leadbetter & O’Connor 2013 http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0043/00430649.pdf
David McDaid
Case for investment
• Analysis of survey data of more than 10,000 people. After controlling for
age, economic status; income; area deprivation, education qualification,
disability/or long standing illness and smoking
• Those who participated in a creative or cultural activity were 38% more
likely to report good health compared to those who did not participate
in in previous year.
• Those who read for pleasure in the previous 12 months were 33% more
likely to report good health than those who did not read for pleasure
David McDaid
Crossing Boundaries http://iccliverpool.ac.uk/
David McDaid
Music Therapy for Depression
• Effectiveness data in model taken from Erkkila Finnish study of one to one music therapy for people with primary diagnosis of depression (B J Psych 2011)
• Effect size of 0.65 compared to usual care controls – significant reduction in depressive levels on Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale – 45% experienced a reduction of more than 50% in depression scores over 3 months
• Delivered by professional music therapists; high level of fidelity to approach
• 20 bi-weekly sessions of music therapy in addition to usual care
• Digital mallets, digital midi percussion and a acoustic djembe drum
David McDaid
David McDaid
David McDaid
Economic case for investment
• Return on investment:
• From health system perspective every £1 invested generates costs avoided of £0.47
• From public purse perspective every £1 invested generates costs avoided of £1.28
• From a social perspective every £1 invested generates costs avoided of £2.70
• Cost effectiveness:
• From health system perspective: cost per QALY gained of £9,900; cost saving per QALY gained from other perspectives
David McDaid
To sum up• Demonstrating an economic return on investment can help make the case for arts interventions to health commissioners
• Demonstrating economic benefits of better health and wellbeing as well as other benefits to society
• Economic arguments have made an important impact in health policy in England (and elsewhere); research in the arts needs to consider this approach
• Important to collect resource & costing data as part of any evaluation
• Possible to model the potential economic benefits of the arts
David McDaid
Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.”— Stephen King
David McDaid
Inspiring the writers of tomorrow
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Overview
• Funded by the Department for
Education
• Arts Council England Museums and
Schools Programme
• Time and Tide Museum
• National Maritime Museum
• Cromer Museum & RNLI Henry Blogg
Museum
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Objectives
Department for Education & Arts Council England objective
• Increase the number of high-quality educational visits by schools in areas of
high deprivation and low cultural engagement
Additional partner set objectives
• Improve children’s attitudes to and skills in writing
• Improve teachers’ perceptions of Museums as a resource for teaching literacy
• Strengthen the relationship between Time & Tide and local schools
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Time and Tide museum is
situated in Great Yarmouth’s
Nelson Ward, an area of high
multiple deprivation. At the
start of the project, 46% of
children in Nelson ward were
eligible for free school meals.
Local Context
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Core Schools
Table with core schools & FSM dataSchool % FSM
Alderman Swindell Infant School 19%
Bradwell Hillside Primary School 7%
Caister Infant School 10%
Caister Junior School 17%
Cobholm Primary School 38%
Edward Worlledge Community Junior School 28%
Great Yarmouth Primary Academy 43%
North Denes School 34%
Northgate Infants school 31%
St. George's Infant & Nursery School 33%
St. Mary's RC VA Primary & Nursery School 11%
Wroughton Infant School 27%
Wroughton Junior School 22%
FSM National Average – 19.3%
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Pirates Survivors Explorers
New Literacy Events
Shipwrecked
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Writers in Residence
Mark Grist- Poet & YouTube Sensation David Farmer – The Story Doctor
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Alexander Gordon Smith
Bestselling YA Horror Author
Tim Clare – Performance Poet
Writers in Residence
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Teachers CPD
‘Mark was really great. I hate
writing poetry but he made it far
more accessible. I’d definitely be
more comfortable teaching it now.’
‘It was very interesting. I had
never considered Horror a
suitable genre for Year 2s but
I think they’d love it!’
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Digital Teacher Packs
• Allows schools to view collections
from the classroom
• Organised by project themes
• Supported by key facts, suggested
activities, and a story
• Films to inspire extension
activities
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
The Events
• Immersive experience
• Very active
• Historical characters
• Handling artefacts
• Engagement & inspiration
• Vocabulary
• Starting points for writing
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
• 71 schools have taken part
• 3,837 pupils signed up to the project
• 22% eligible for FSM overall
• 90 % of children have made 3 or more visits
• 13, 053 visits to date
• Visits by 13 core local schools up by 48%
• 121 Arts Awards
Statistics
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Teacher evaluation word cloud
Teachers Feedback
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Teachers Feedback
‘Thank you for all your support this term. You have really
helped to make our curriculum more exciting and helped us
to make it more local and relevant to the children.’
‘Inspiring for everyone, including the teachers. It has made
the children realise how important the sea is to Yarmouth,
and inspired some great stories!’
‘The children’s writing has had a step change. They’re using
adjectives and adverbs all the time now!
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
• Increased engagement with writing (especially boys)
• Enhanced vocabulary & descriptive language
• Improved story structure & characterisation
• Higher levels of teacher and student confidence
• Students have more pride in their work
Teachers Reported:
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Students Interest & Knowledge
Before After Increase
Are you interested in Pirates 54% 81% 27%
Shipwrecks 38% 62% 24%
Explorers 29% 63% 34%
Do you know any stories about Pirates 41% 79% 39%
Shipwrecks 27% 64% 36%
Explorers 22% 51% 29%
Students were asked
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Student Attitudes
Before After Increase
Do you like Listening to stories 84% 91% 8%
Reading Stories 62% 79% 17%
Writing Stories 39% 72% 32%
Are you proud of
any stories you
have written?
44% 76% 32%
Students were asked
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
More Feedback
‘Today was awesome. I want to be a
writer!’- Year 4 boy
‘The work they’ve been producing is some of the best we’ve
ever seen. I think that because they were able to visit the
museum it really gave them a tactile sense of what life was
like. I don’t think they’d have got that any other way.’
Year 6 Teacher
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Celebration Events
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
The Anthology
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
What Next?
Colin Stott, Norfolk Museums Service
Libraries, Learning and
WellbeingJan Holden, Assistant Head of Service
Norfolk Library and Information Service
Jan Holden, Norfolk Library and Information Service
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Gary Tuson, Norfolk Record Office
Gary Tuson, Norfolk Record Office
Gary Tuson, Norfolk Record Office
Term 1. Research
Term 2. Art and Creative Writing
Term 3. Oral Histories
Gary Tuson, Norfolk Record Office
What Next?
Change Minds - Cohort 2
Change Minds Cromer
Complete Evaluation
Gary Tuson, Norfolk Record Office
Flora
A few days after Flora’s marriageshe became very unnatural in her manner.Her husband has not since been heard of.
Through necrosis she is rotting from her roots.She has saved people in her night ramblings,was going to be married again.
I’m fixed to the earth by needles, fixedto the earth by Venlefaxine. There is skyand the damp give of the ground.
Flora has a mouthful of needles.She is making dressesin the blue shape of us.
In the Spring, we’ll standface the low sun and the breeze,promenade ourselves home.
Flora Cooper - Dressmaker
Gary Tuson, Norfolk Record Office
Natalie Jode
Executive Director
An arts and community development charity
working with a range of communities across Norfolk,
Suffolk and the east to offer volunteering
opportunities, health and wellbeing projects and
cultural education.
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
Our Vision:
Culturally vibrant, connected and motivated rural
communities
Our Mission:
To improve community life through the creative use of the
arts
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
What is Rural Touring?
• They work with voluntary promoting groups to bring professional performing companies and
artists to perform in their village or community venue.
• Volunteers promote the event and work in partnership with the rural touring scheme.
• The rural touring scheme produces a programme of shows that groups can choose from.
• Voluntary promoters make their selection and receive contracting, marketing and financial
support from the scheme to enable their event to happen.
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
There are 29 rural touring schemes across the
UK.
These important schemes:
• place access at the forefront of the work;
• they are driven by the desire to overcome social,
geographic, economic and psychological barriers that
have historically inhibited the enjoyment of the arts by
people in rural communities;
• they have a commitment to promoting excellent arts and
cultural experience that would not otherwise be available to
these communities.
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
Across the UK there are:
29 rural touring schemes at work
Supporting over 3700 events per year
Engaging almost 31,000 audiences per year
Empowering at least 25000 volunteering instances
Equating to over £1million in in-kind voluntary hours
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
Is a rural touring scheme
which works in
partnership with
volunteers to bring live
performance to rural or
underserved
communities
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
Is a community
cinema scheme which
works in partnership
with volunteers to
bring the latest film
releases and classic
titles to rural or
underserved
communities
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
In 2015-2016, across Norfolk
and Suffolk, Creative Arts East
supported:
• 590 events
• Reaching over
44,000 people
• £114,000 per year
for local venues
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
Supports the community by....
Decreasing isolation 67% -
Supporting social connectedness 62%
Developing and supporting volunteers 40%
Developing skills within the community 26%
Furthermore volunteers felt that their involvement has...
Given me a sense of personal satisfaction 60%
Increased skills 40%
Helped me make new connections 38%
Increased my confidence 20%
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
“The Town Council value the service and it truly
benefits the community especially those on a
low income or with transport difficulties”
Downham Market Town Council
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
“One lady, now deceased, when asked why she was such a
regular attender, said that she welcomed the opportunity
to meet friends, have some entertainment and enjoy
herself, all within a safe and secure environment. She
continued that she felt secure because: ‘If I have a funny
turn there is someone there who knows my name and
will make sure I’m looked after’.”
Promoter on behalf of an audience member
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
''The events my family,
friends and I have
attended have all been
wonderful and have
brought the whole
community together.
Without these
events, the village
communities would
be even more
isolated''
Audience Member
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
Furthermore:
On average audiences for Creative Arts East events come from well
within a 9 mile radius;
51% of those surveyed said they would not have attended the event
If it had not been in their village hall;
4.7 out of 5 was the score given by audience members for the quality
of the performances they experienced.
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
Natalie Jode, Creative Arts East
Contact Details:
Web: www.creativeartseast.co.uk
Tel: 01953 713390
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @CreativArtsEast @ NatJode
Facebook: Creative Arts East
Illustrations: Rosie Redzia.
Taken from ‘A Wider Horizon’ by Francois Matarasso 2015https://regularmarvels.com/2015/07/14/a-wider-horizon-now-available/
Exploring the Contribution of Arts and Culture to Education and Wellbeing in Norfolk