Last week there was an article by The Guardian’s Lyn Gardner commenting on the No Boundaries conference. In particular, she discusses the proposition put forward by John Knell that many arts organisations are “too… Continue reading
The annual #AMMBCOM conference in Trinidad is preceded this year by the innovation of the ASK-CIDA Academy for Creative Entrepreneurs. 20 individual entrepreneurs, some new but mostly with hard experience of making their… Continue reading
Judging by the Facebook and Twitter posts I’ve seen over the last week or so, I have the impression that not many people were sorry to see the back of 2013. For me,… Continue reading
Looking through old files, I found this document from Michael Kaiser’s roadshow for ACE England a few years ago: it’s worth revisiting as our need to be more effective at fundraising becomes more… Continue reading
I’ve been thinking about Boards. There seems to be such a spectrum of relationships, responsibilities and behaviours of Boards, either because of or even despite the requirements of Company Law, that I… Continue reading
It is with great pleasure that we announce the names of the 20 organisations who will be participating in CidaCo’s Creative Capital Programme: Artlink Hull … Continue reading
Jo Verrent has very bravely looked hard and resurrected one good thing that we might acknowledge arose from Thatcher – it was the Enterprise Allowance Scheme: (http://www.joverrent.com/2013/04/what-have-i-got-to-thank-thatcher-for-anyone-else-remember-the-enterprise-allowance-scheme/). I applauded Jo’s memory (not to mention her… Continue reading
In a time when it’s increasingly difficult to get the money to support your business or organisation, it’s important that everyone knows where funding does actually exist! CidaCo is involved with two such… Continue reading
“Attacking institutionalised racism, using the tools of institutionalised racism to do so” – Thus spake Ekua Bayunu, Chair of the Sustained Theatre National organisation. The subsequent discussions were intelligent, informed, focused, professional and… Continue reading
I’ve been thinking again about leaders and their role in helping to create an innovative organisation. It is a really serious issue since leaders have the capacity of torpedoing their own best efforts,… Continue reading
