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Shortlist announced…

Friday, February 11th, 2011

The shortlisted partnerships for The Bruntwood Awards for Arts & Business North 2011 have been announced after judging took place at the offices of headline sponsor Bruntwood on Friday 28 January 2011.

Potts Print (UK) Cultural Branding Award

• Azendi & Northern Ballet

• Finnair Plc & Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM)

• IKEA Gateshead & Shipley Art Gallery

Unilever Young People Award

• Frances Lincoln Children’s Books & Seven Stories, the Centre for Children’s Books

• Irwin Mitchell Solicitors & West Yorkshire Playhouse

• Opal Property Group & Contact Theatre

HFL Building Solutions Sustained Partnership Award

• Bank of America Merrill Lynch & Manchester Camerata

• Brother Ltd & Hallé Concerts Society

• T & R Theakston & Harrogate International Festivals

Sutcliffe People Development Award

• Manchester Airport & Band On The Wall

• MINT Hotel & The Royal Exchange Theatre

Bruntwood and Arup Environmental Partnership Award

• The Co-operative Group & Yorkshire Sculpture Park

• Hanson Aggregates Ltd (part of the Heidelberg Group) & Nidderdale Visual Arts

• Marchday/Lingfield Investments & Vista Projects

The Midland Hotel Board Member of the Year Award

• Terry Bowker for Artlink

• Martin McMillan for Hallé Concerts Society

• Geoffrey Shindler for The Royal Exchange Theatre & Manchester Camerata

The winners will be announced on the evening of 23rd March 2011. Click here for details.

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Final Call for Entries for The Bruntwood Awards for Arts & Business North

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

The Bruntwood Awards for Arts & Business North has extended the submission deadline for its annual award ceremony to 14th January 2010.

The awards ceremony, which will be held at Manchester Town Hall on 23rd March 2011, celebrates the best partnerships between business and arts organisations throughout the year.

The Awards comprise six categories embracing the innovation and variety of arts-business projects throughout the region. Categories include: Young People Award, Cultural Branding Award sponsored by Potts Print (UK), Sustained Partnership Award, sponsored by HFL Building Solutions, People Development Award, Environmental Partnership Award, sponsored by Bruntwood and Arup, and finally one board member will be recognised for their outstanding contribution to an arts organisation throughout the year.

On the Awards, Michael Oglesby, Chairman of Bruntwood, main sponsor of the awards, said: “In these challenging times, business support of the arts is more important than ever. Such collaborations add vibrancy to cities and stimulate creativity. Supporting the arts has always been part of our philosophy, coming alive through projects such as The Bruntwood Playwriting Competition with The Royal Exchange Theatre. Through The Bruntwood Awards for Arts & Business North, we want to recognise other successful collaborations, encourage bold and innovative partnerships and celebrate the world class culture we have in our region”.

Brenda Parkerson, director of Arts & Business North, added: “”We are delighted to be teaming up with Bruntwood in our celebration of inspiring partnerships between culture and commerce across the North of England. The Bruntwood Awards for Arts & Business set the standards for arts and business partnerships in the North West, Yorkshire/Humber, and the North East and provide a platform for the recognition they deserve.

“This year we also have the great honour of celebrating the Lever Prize in collaboration with the North West Business Leadership Team.

“Arts and business partnerships encourage creativity, advance innovation and add value in surprising and remarkable ways, and the ceremony at Manchester Town Hall is a great opportunity to get inspired and meet like-minded in business and the arts.”

Ends

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Notes to editors:

• Arts & Business is a non-profit Prince’s Charity that sparks new partnerships between commerce and culture. We connect companies and individuals to cultural organisations and provide the expertise and insight for them to prosper together.

• Arts & Business North Awards are an annual celebration of innovative arts and business partnerships across the North. Next year they will be held at Manchester Town Hall on 23 March 2011.

• The Lever Prize is an annual award given to an outstanding arts organisation. Each year it is judged by the North West Business Leadership Team, which comprises of the 30 largest companies in the region, in partnership with Arts and Business North West.

Arts & Business (A&B) is a registered charity in England (274040) and in Scotland (SC039470).

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Digital Audiences Report

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

The Internet and the Arts:

Arts & Business have realised a new report analysing digital audiences. 53% of online users engage with arts and culture digitally, but 93% of those online are interested in the arts. What are you doing to reach them?

Read the key findings or download the whole report.

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The Bruntwood Awards for Arts & Business North Awards 2011

Monday, November 1st, 2010

The next Arts & Business North Awards are to take place in Manchester Town Hall in March next year, but now is the time to get yourself and your business partners nominated! This year there will be six categories and an independent panel of judges will select three shortlisted partnerships per category. They’ll be looking for shining examples of businesses and arts organisations working together to exceed their commercial, strategic and creative goals from all over the north.

A list of the awards and more details on how to nominate are at on the Arts & Business website you have until 14 January to do so.

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New reports and research from Arts & Business

Monday, October 25th, 2010

Arts & Business are getting all digital with the release of the Evolution of Partnerships interactive document. The report focuses on collaborations of arts organisations with digital or digital savvy businesses. The pioneering research offers ideas on these types of partnerships and ‘a how to guide’ on how to develop them; exploring the nature of these innovative partnerships, the benefits, the pitfalls and real life success stories from across the UK. The interactive document and a PDF are available now on the Arts & Business website.

Also released this month in case you missed it was a philanthropy report. Check out the key findings and download it from the A&B website.

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The Big Arts Give

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

Arts & Business have teamed up with The Big Give to launch The Big Arts Give.

Successful arts organisations from the North East in the scheme are Seven Stories and Bowes Museum. They need to raise £40,000 and £18,000 respectively to be in with a chance of unlocking the additional funding they need for their project. Donors and patrons and friends and supporters of the organisations can pledge now, then in early December the online donations open for the public to donate.

Put the date in your diary and donate online to see your money matched pound for pound, and if you can gift aid it, your pennies will be turned into even more for the charities!

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Greater North Arts Members

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Yesterday The Sponsors Club office went to Leeds for the day to meet with our colleagues from the Yorkshire office and the Manchester office and all Arts & Business arts members from the north of England.

The day focussed on friends schemes and legacy and patron level giving also.

If you couldn’t be there and would like more information please contact Kathryn for the handouts of the day. More events like this can be found on Arts & Business website.

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32nd Arts & Business Awards

Monday, September 20th, 2010

For the first time you get to vote on your favourite partnerships between culture and commerce over the past year. The shortlist can be found here.

The North East has an entry in the national awards; Tyne & Wear Museums & Archives work with John Lewis and Culture Shock Stories is up for an award in the Community and Young People award.

If you vote you will also be put in a prize draw to win two tickets to the invitation only event in London on Thursday 18 of November.

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North Members Meeting

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Annual North Arts Members Meeting – The Donors, The Friends, and The Patrons

Thursday 7 October, 11am – 3pm at Leeds City Art Gallery 74 The Headrow, Leeds. LS1 3AH

Share your knowledge and experience with fellow members across the North of England.

11am Arrivals

Welcome North Members from Jim Tough, Regional Director, Arts council England and Brenda Parkerson, Regional Director Arts & Business.

Hatty Hanna and Eleanor Wotherspoon present findings of delegate survey. (Please click through to the survey here and complete if you haven’t already.)

12pm 1^st Panel discussion – Setting up new Schemes

Speakers include Katherine Leadbeter from The Sage Gateshead and Jane Hall from Northern Stage

Philip Spedding (Arts & Business) to chair with Adam Lopardo (Sponsors Club).

1pm Lunch

2pm 2^nd Panel discussion – How to manage your Friends into Donors (Legacies & Patrons)

Speakers include Matthew Freeman Manchester Camerata and Hannah Roberts from Opera North

Philip Spedding to chair.

3pm Close and further networking.

To structure and provide reference throughout the meeting we have set up a short survey to gather the North’s data on these topics. We need your figures and insight so please click through to the survey here and complete it. (Go on, do it now, it only takes two minutes!) Please fill out the survey by 18 September so we have time to analyse the results before the meeting.

Also can I remind you that in the interests of sharing contacts throughout the North, we would like to send out an email after the event with delegate’s names and emails to those who attended. Can you please let me know if you would not like your email shared in this way.

See you there!

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Cultural Champions, North East

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Friday saw the second Arts & Business Cultural Champions event take place at Seven Stories. The event was hosted by Nick Brown, Minister for the North East and MP for Newcastle East and Wallsend and attended by arts organisations and their ‘Champions’. (A list of whom will be made available here.)

The afternoon went down a storm with everyone who was there. Food and venue were perfect and Chloe from Arts & Business head office orchestrated it all perfectly.

Further events will be held in the Midlands, South East and East of England during early 2010. Please visit the Arts & Business website if you would like more information.

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