Arts Partners
Core Funders
Arts Council England, East Midlands
Arts Council England is the national development agency for the Arts in England. Junction Arts is a Regularly Funded Organisation and in 2004 was given 'Flagship' status as a national participatory arts project. www.artscouncil.org.uk
Bolsover District Council
Junction Arts receives core funding from Bolsover District Council, which enables us to develop and fundraise for programmes of work across the district. Junction Arts liaises with the District Arts Officer to support their Arts Strategy and regularly liaises with members and with project teams.
Junction Arts works on a project basis with each of the fourteen Parish and Town Councils in the district, to ensure that we provide a range and number of opportunities for creative participation. www.bolsover.gov.uk
Derbyshire County Council
As our third key core funder, Junction Arts works closely with the County Arts Officer and other strategic officers, to ensure that our programmes deliver shared aims and objectives. www.derbyshire.gov.uk
Project Partners:
Creative Partnerships Bolsover, Ashfield & Mansfield
Creative Partnerships works to give school children throughout England the opportunity to develop their potential, their ambition, their creativity and imagination through sustainable partnerships with creative and cultural organisations, businesses and individuals.
Junction Arts is a key partner of Creative Partnerships Bolsover, Ashfield & Mansfield (CP BAM). The two organisations share a strong commitment to young people in the district and to developing creative teaching and learning practice in the longer term.
www.creative-partnerships.com
Derbyshire Arts Development Group
The Derbyshire Arts Development Group (DADG) is an association of participatory arts organisations, local authorities and other arts groups, which exists to promote the development of professional arts in the county for the benefit of the people who live, work in, and visit Derbyshire. The organisation provides leadership for its members and for the wider arts constituency in the county. For information about the arts county wide visit:
www.artsderbyshire.org.uk
East Midlands Participatory Arts Forum (EMPAF)
The Forum has been in existence since 2003 and follows a long tradition of collective organisation by participatory arts organisations in the East Midlands region since the 1970's. Junction Arts is an active member of EMPAF.
www.empaf.com