Expertise & Services

ARTS UK Ltd provides a range of research, development and implementation services to the public, private and voluntary sectors.

ARTS UK has an operational area that is UK wide. A network of associate consultants creates a skills and expertise base to enable teams to be created that fulfil client requirements.

ARTS UK offers the following services:

Project development & management
Consultation, advocacy and development strategies
Strategic planning and implementation
Arts research and information
Contract advice and implementation
Research & feasibility studies, reports and business plans
Preparation, implementation and control of budgets
Fundraising, including National Lottery
Preparation of commission briefs and contracts
Artists’ database and national arts contacts
Organisation of artists short-listing and interview
Information and education strategies
Setting up education & community partnerships
Residencies and workshop organisation
Training and good practice dissemination
Web design, IT and print design

ARTS UK works closely with organisations and individuals to prepare strategic structures for project development, implementation and delivery. It offers experience of the following:

Organisational and delivery structures for the public, private, voluntary and independent sectors
Ability to work at local, regional, national and international levels, and to organise work practices and structures which are appropriate for each situation
Ability to mediate between client, artist and audience, in order to create new partnerships that support significant and meaningful arts projects which embrace art and society in its broadest and most inclusive context
Working with a wide range of organisations, cultures, ages and abilities
Working at senior levels, including Chief Executives, Chief Officers, Elected Members, Company Directors
Understanding of funding systems and sources of finances for arts projects, including Arts Council England, % for Art, National Lottery, Regional Development Agency, SRB, capital budgets, Charitable Trusts
Successful fundraising for projects, including major lottery and SRB finances
Ability to develop and deliver a range of different sized projects with budgets from £2000 to £400,000.
Working with regional, national and international agencies
Strategic arts reports and feasibility studies
Public presentations to local authority, community, business and other groups
Working with District, County and Metropolitan local authorities
Working closely with different local authority departments and personnel, including: Arts and Leisure, Economic Development, Planning, Education, Engineers, Highways & Transport, Architects, Landscape Architects, Social Services, Property Services & Estates
Experience of large scale innovative public art projects which require extensive public consultation, development of design proposals, prototypes, engineering and construction development and feasibility
A range of different project contexts, including Art and Architecture, Schools and Education, Urban Regeneration and Improvement Schemes, Cycle-routes and other linear paths, Art, Landscape and Environment, Art and community identification and development, Art in urban areas
Involvement with, and support for, a wide range of art-form areas in public art commissions, including sculpture, painting, glass, mosaic, architectural metalwork, landscaping, murals, letter-cutting, photography, light and lens based, new and digital technologies, temporary and ephemeral works
Successful implementation of a wide range of public art and landscape projects
Preparation of timetables, project structures and working partnerships