To help you to develop your family programme, we’ve commissioned and collated digital training tools, case studies, research papers and toolkits from across the sector.
> Family Arts Standards
The Family Arts Campaign and the Family & Childcare Trust have developed a set of Family Arts Standards, addressing a need for clear guidance on how best to welcome families to arts organisations. View here.
> Age-Friendly
Including the Age-Friendly Standards and guidance for arts and cultural organisations, along with toolkits, links and resources for working with older family members. View here.
> Case Studies
Including Age-Friendly case studies, case studies from the Family Arts Campaign evaluation and a look at successful events from the national Family Arts Festival. Plus how organisations are using the Family Arts Standards across their organisation, and a variety of other studies including an Audiences London paper on developing family audiences across artforms, developing family friendly music days in eastern England, and a look at the Barbican Beacon programme which developed communication with the Barbican’s neighbouring inner city boroughs. View here.
> Research
Covering Arts Council England’s Arts Audiences Insight publication as well as the New Audiences programme. View here.
> Toolkits
Including the Family Arts Campaign-commissioned guidance on content communication and pricing for family events, Family Arts Festival Evaluation Toolkit, ‘Test Drive The Arts’ For Families, Arts Council England’s Family Friendly and Family & Community toolkits, and publications by The Big Draw relevant to those taking part in the next Family Arts Festival. View here.
> Family Arts Campaign Evaluation
Family Audiences: What Matters? Read the Campaign’s independent evaluation from 2015 by Catherine Rose’s Office. View here.
> Accessibility resources
Information related to accessible performances and activities. View here.
> Articles
Articles from Family Arts Campaign and others. View here.
> Miscellaneous
Including resources from Family Arts Campaign past training events and conference. View here.
> CultureHive
Please visit CultureHive for further family arts resources.