PROGRAMME

Coffee & registration

Welcome • Andrew Clark & David Duckham

Enabling arts and heritage projects: Raising the roof on the Picture Gallery at Attingham Park • Sarah Kay Strategic planning for capacity building, regeneration and organisational change • David Clarke

Tea Break

Thinking laterally to unlock your assets and enable development in hard times • Niall Phillips

Drinks & canapés

TIME

14:00

14:30

14:45

15:20

15:50

16:20

17:00

PROGRAMME4th November 2014

The Council House Victoria Square Birmingham B1 1BB

SARAH KAYCurator, National Trust

Sarah gained a Fine & Decorative Arts post-graduate diploma before working for Christie’s Fine Art Auctioneers in Munich. She began her National Trust career in 1999 by volunteering full-time and then worked as a Researcher & Curator in the West Midlands region. She has been involved at Attingham in a curatorial capacity for fourteen years, specialising in researching the mansion’s historic interiors and advising on their display, historical accuracy and interpretation. She manages the Attingham Re-discovered project of improvements to the interiors, and has curatorial responsibility for the whole property as well as Trust properties in South Shropshire.

DAVID CLARKEManaging Director, DCA Consultants Ltd

David Clarke is a senior manager and strategist with over 20 years’ experience in the private, public and voluntary sectors. DCA is one of Britain’s longest established firms of cultural consultants specialising in creativity, regeneration consultancy and project development. David is a fellow of the RSA, the Museums Association and the Institute of Leadership and Management. He is also a RIBA Client Advisor and specialises in supporting clients to envisage, develop and operate great buildings and projects in the civic, arts, heritage, creative industries and learning sectors.

NIALL PHILLIPSHead of Regeneration, Purcell

Niall started working in the charitable sector in the late 1970s, taking advantage of government funds for projects with big ambitions but small budgets. He has a talent for efficiently packaging resources, funding, acquisition and development programming in relation to these projects. Niall leads Purcell’s Bristol studio and has been integral to the development of many historically and culturally significant schemes.

Discussion Summary Enabling arts and heritage projects: Raising the roof on the Picture Gallery at Attingham ParkSarah will using Attingham’s Picture Gallery Roof project as an example of how to unlock funding and deliver value through creative thinking. Using Attingham’s philosophy of approach, she will outline the design solution that was used, how expectations were managed, how funding was secured, how they delivered value through creative thinking and how potential negatives were turned into positives.

Discussion Summary Strategic planning for capacity building, regeneration and organisational change From David’s experience as a consultant working with both funding bodies and clients, many of them arts and heritage organisations, he will discuss how the planning of regeneration and development projects can unlock future success and underpin economic sustainability. He will also explain how to plan regeneration projects from initial feasibility studies to full design and funding.

Discussion Summary Thinking laterally to unlock your assets and enable development in hard timesNiall will look at creative ways of maximising the value of your assets to assist towards resourcing your projects and their future operation - assets you may not realise you have. Giving examples of successful projects he has been involved with, he will demonstrate how smaller voluntary organisations have realised ambitious plans, starting with almost nothing in their bank accounts.

PROGRAMME4th November 2014

The Council House Victoria Square Birmingham B1 1BB