Connect
Connect and share
We know that together we can have a bigger impact on families, whether that’s through collaboration or sharing knowledge.
Family Arts Campaign can support you to build partnerships, local networks and share with peers near and far. Explore this page to find how you can connect with us and others, all working to ensure families have access to high quality family friendly arts activities across the UK.
Are you part of a regional network?
Family Arts Networks are a way for organisations to work together, providing support for reaching and engaging with more diverse families, sharing knowledge to better understand family needs, and ensuring their area provides a wide range of quality family arts experiences. We currently have 14 Networks across the UK and welcome the creation of new ones.
Power of Partnerships
How can the culture sector help families during the Cost of Living Crisis?
Ahead of our Family Arts Conference Sallyanne Flemons, North East Family Arts Ambassador, shares insights and thinking from experts in Poverty Proofing and ways to support low income families.
Family Arts Conference Programme Announcements
We’re excited to share some of the brilliant speakers and fascinating topics we'll be exploring on Thursday 29 February 2024 at Leeds Playhouse.
Key Learnings from the Network Ambassador Programme
A year on from our initial Network Ambassadors programme, we’re pleased to be continuing and building on our work with Family Arts Networks and Network Ambassadors across the UK. We take a look back at the key learnings from the initial three year programme.
Bursaries Available for Family Arts Conference 2024
The UK’s largest family arts and culture conference returns on Thursday 29 February 2024 at Leeds Playhouse.
Family Arts Conference 2024
The UK’s largest family arts and culture conference returns on Thursday 29 February 2024 at Leeds Playhouse.
New Members appointed to the Family Arts Campaign Board of Directors
We’re delighted to welcome Elaine Grant and Zoe Dennington to the Family Arts Campaign Board of Directors.
Leadership: Thoughts on Connection, Collaboration and Communities
Ahead of our National Leadership Symposium, we asked our event speakers to tell us why families matter and how better cultural leadership can make a difference.
Job Opportunity: Family Arts Coordinator at ARC
A fantastic new role ideal supporting families to take part in arts and creative activities. This is an ideal job for someone who is knowledgeable about family life in the Tees Valley, loves talking to people and is passionate about the benefits of arts and culture on people’s lives.
Network Ambassador Programme
We work with six Family Arts Network Ambassadors in Bristol, Cumbria, North-East England, Sunderland, Derby and Manchester.
Ambassadors work with the central team at the Family Arts Campaign to build upon community relationships in their Networks and further encourage family engagement. In addition, the regional Ambassadors work together nationally to share best practice for dissemination through the Family Arts Campaign national learning programme and resources.
Family Arts Campaign Partners that can support your work
Meet the core team
Anna Dever
Head of Campaign
My most memorable creative experience as a child was…
going to Withington
Library with my mum
and being amazed I
could choose a big stack
of books to take home!
Arts for families is important…
because it’s open and
accessible to everyone.
Talk to Anna about
building partnerships
& strategic opportunities.
Rukhsana Jahangir
Campaign Manager
My most memorable creative experience as a child was…
inhabiting magical worlds of
inner imagination through
being a total bookworm!
Arts for families is important…
because shared arts
experiences can be
deeply transformative.
Talk to Rukhsana
about learning, awards,
partnerships and regional
networks.
Sophie Erin Evans
Digital Marketing Manager
My most memorable creative experience as a child was…
creating my own worlds through painting, drawing and filling notebooks full of stories and poems!
Arts for families is important…
because it celebrates that everyone sees the world in different ways.
Talk to Sophie about your
inspiring stories and
marketing collaborations.
Daniela Gerstmann
Freelance Marketing Officer
My most memorable arts experience as a child was…
Der Käsemond, a musical!
At age 10, I plagiarized it
for a puppet show about
nan’s neighbours.
Arts for families is important…
because “the arts” can be
off-putting. Family events
can open doors.
Talk to Daniela about
family listings, emojis
and how to write inviting
marketing copy
Meet the
Project Board
Family Arts Campaign is
led by a strategic board of
representatives from ten
organisations and trade
bodies.
Meet the
Ambassadors
Across the country, six
Family Arts Network
Ambassadors support arts
organisations and feedback
to the campaign.
Image credits:
First Image – Theatr Iolo, Hoof
Second Image – Swaledale Festival
Third Image – Children’s Scrapstore
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Expand your understanding of family needs
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