Arts Council England

It’s #InternationalMuseumDay! 🖼️🏛️ Who remembers when we spoke to FKA Twigs about #ACESupported project, The Wild Escape? In our video, FKA Twigs talks about the project and how art can connect us with nature. Led by Art Fund and funded by our largest National Lottery Project Grant to a museum, The Wild Escape was a creative project for young people focusing on UK biodiversity loss. 🦋 It was also the largest ever collaboration between UK museums – bringing 532 museums, galleries and historic houses and 103,000 young people together. Read more about the project 👇 https://buff.ly/3K4PhRh

We’re delighted that Greater Manchester will become the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia, hosted by National Portfolio Organisation Manchester Camerata 🎉 💸 Over £1 million has been awarded through the Power of Music Fund, led by the National Academy for Social Prescribing, Arts Council England and The Utley Foundation. 🏠 The initiative will use knowledge and research to show how music support in dementia care can help reduce loneliness, improve quality of life and take pressure off the NHS. 🎵 The funding will support three years of direct musical support activities across Greater Manchester. Manchester Camerata will collaborate with the The University of Manchester and the NHS to research the impact and power that these music sessions have for people living with dementia. ☕ As part of this, Manchester Camerata and The Alzheimer's Society will support 300 Music Champions. They’ll be trained to deliver Music Cafes - supporting over 1,000 people living with dementia in Greater Manchester. 🌟 The Power of Music Fund has also awarded 70 small grants to grassroots organisations across the UK, supporting over 4,500 people living with dementia through musical activities. Read the news story 👇 https://buff.ly/44NrHCn #DementiaAwarenessWeek #DementiaActionWeek #LetsCreate

Are you a creative industry employer? #DiscoverCreativeCareers Week returns 18-22 November and they need you to get involved to help inspire your future workforce 🙋 It's a great chance to give young people a taste of the jobs and pathways available, why creative careers matter, and how to get their foot in the door 🌟 You could: 👉 Host a workshop for local students 👉 Launch new career programmes for young people 👉 Open your workplace for college tours Sign up 👇 https://buff.ly/3wpZ2qd

There are limited tickets left for the Mental Health and Arts Symposium livestream, hosted by 42nd Street Charity and chaired by Dr Darren Henley CBE 📣 Join the livestream this Friday (17 May) to hear from experts about the growing need for youth mental health support 👇 https://buff.ly/4afptN9 #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

📣 Vacancy 📣 Are you well-organised, proactive and enthusiastic? We’re looking for someone to support us with a range of administrative and research tasks as an Assistant in our North team. In particular, we’re looking for someone who: ✨ has strong personal assistant, admin and communication skills ✨ works well with others and is proactive ✨ can manage diaries, agendas, and meeting notes with confidence ✨ has strong IT skills (particularly Excel) and a confident approach to learning new systems ✨ is OK with juggling several tasks at once Find out more and apply by 17 May 👇 https://buff.ly/4ajtIag

It's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek 💭 Our country is full of creative and cultural projects working to improve the health and wellbeing of people and their communities. From award-winning health and wellbeing programmes, to support during end of life care, take a look at some of the #ACEsupported projects on our website👇

📣 Vacancy 📣 Want to be a part of developing our investment processes? 🌟 We’re hiring an Officer, Funded Organisations. In this role, you can expect to: ✨ Develop end-to-end grant management processes ✨ Support the timely and effective delivery of current and future investment processes and procedures ✨ Help produce internal and external guidance documents and resources ✨ Be a part of delivering internal training on specific elements of grant and investment processes Find out more and apply by 19 May 👇 https://buff.ly/3WBUpnE

Congratulations to all our successful Capital Investment Programme applicants 🙌    As part of our #LetsCreate strategy, capital investment remains an important tool in helping build cultural communities.     Through this fund we are awarding new and increased investment in communities throughout England, including in places where cultural investment has previously been too low.    This investment will improve the cultural infrastructure of places across the country, in turn supporting the production of high-quality creative work and unleashing creative potential.      Read more about our capital funding 👇  https://buff.ly/3Mz1ZZn  📷 LEVEL Centre © Lucy Barnes   

Introducing… a new generation of Music Hubs 🎵 🪴  We’re investing over £101 million in new Music Hub Lead Organisations on behalf of the Department for Education. This means:  📍 New Hub Lead Organisations will receive over £76m to coordinate high-quality music education in every local area.  🔧 They’ll also receive an additional £25 million to invest in new instruments, equipment and technology, including instruments for children and young people with special education needs or disabilities.  The new Music Hub programme is a major milestone to achieving the National Plan for Music Education’s vision that children and young people should be able to sing, create music, and progress their musical interests.  This investment also helps bring our #LetsCreate vision to life, increasing access to:  🥁 musical activities  ☀️ opportunities  🎓 teachers   🎷instruments  The programme will make sure the creativity of every child and young person in England is valued and given the chance to flourish: no matter who they are, where they go to school, or where they spend their free time.   🔗 Learn more about the new generation of Music Hubs👇 https://buff.ly/3vCoowX

We're looking for organisations, artists, events, initiatives, and others to apply for our funding and help us achieve our strategy, #LetsCreate Take a look at our open funds 👇