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Benefits and subscription levels for artists and arts organisations
Please note: this page summarises benefits for artists and arts organisations. Benefits for those in the education sector are described here.
arts4schools offers a wide range of benefits for artists and arts organisations (performing arts and visual arts) who have an education remit:
Marketing
Access to a growing, targeted, UK wide market
The arts4schools' website has grown increasingly popular with schools and currently receives around 6000 visitors per month.
Members report increasing numbers of teachers finding them via the arts4schools' site.
Our monthly email bulletin reaches this rapidly growing schools audience. Members may use this monthly mailing to market their education and community activities, and productions or exhibitions of specific relevance to the education sector.
arts4schools' audience is UK wide, making it a particularly attractive resource for artists and organisations who tour work or exhibitions and wish to promote their work to new audiences across the UK.
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Quick links
Sample pages:
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Education
Access to information, support and easy contact with your peers
Members receive our separate member bulletin each month which highlights key arts education news as well as important information about the work of arts4schools.
arts4schools represents the interests of its members at national and UK wide level, via frequent senior level contact with bodies including DCMS, DfES, the four Arts Councils, Arts & Business, Arts & Kids. Information from relevant meetings is fed back to members.
The discussion forum enables you to share ideas, concerns and support with peers.
The arts4schools' site provides you with easy access to information and contact details of your peers in other arts organisations
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"We were particularly impressed by the understanding that arts4schools displayed of our situation and needs, and the manner in which the site's aims and ways of working were made accessible to non-specialists."
Bristol Old Vic
"arts4schools provides a much needed opportunity ... to disseminate information rapidly,
accurately and to the right people."
Churchill Theatre Bromley
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Ease and speed of access to market
We offer the following benefits (subject to membership level) enabling you to easily and rapidly update information, promote a new piece of work and so on:
- Instant updates: You can have instant access to your details, and to the listings area. This means that you have complete control over when, and how often, you promote your work.
- Organisation wide access to the site: if you're an organisation, you can extend access to the
site to a number of colleagues (the number allowed will depend on your subscription level). This means that staff from the
marketing department, for example, can update information as well as the education department.
Professional development
- As a member of arts4schools you have access to training and networking opportunities through our professional development programme. This includes training courses and conferences, including the "Inspiring Tomorrow's Audiences" conference - a key event for everyone involved in arts education. The 2003 conference
was opened by Baroness Blackstone, then Secretary of State for the Arts, and had a keynote speech from Lord David Puttnam.
More information about our professional development programme (including notes from previous conferences) can be found here.
- As a member of arts4schools you receive a discount on all professional development opportunities where arts4schools is the sole or major organiser.
Access to professional expertise
The team behind arts4schools has years of experience in the arts, education, training and new technologies. We offer the following :
Services to help you make better use of new technologies
We can
- help you to develop an appropriate and cost effective online strategy
- build you a highly professional website - for significantly less than most commercial website developers
- provide support and advice on buying hardware, software, setting up networks, developing or overhauling
websites, and so on
- provide training from how to use key software through to making better use of your website and new technologies
Co-ordination of all or some of your education materials and activities
We can
- research and write education packs to support your productions
- publish these materials online or on CD-ROM
- capture workshops, question and answer sessions, masterclasses and craft printed or multimedia resources
- run interactive projects involving email or online activities
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Benefits |
Cost - individuals |
Cost - small orgs |
Cost - medium orgs |
Cost - large orgs |
| Level one: education benefits only |
- association with an increasingly well respected arts education organisation
- dedicated page on arts4schools' site
- profiling of education work in "activities" area of the site
- updating of contact details at any time
- receipt of monthly member bulletin
- profiling of education policies
In addition, we offer organisations the opportunity to extend access to the arts4schools site to colleagues, as follows:
small organisations: 2 - 5 users
medium sized organisations: 6 - 10 users
large organisations: 11 - 15 users
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£75 |
£100 |
£150 |
£200 |
| Level two: education and marketing benefits |
as level one, plus
- marketing of current, recent or future projects
- promotion of productions,exhibitions and so on relevant to schools' audiences in the "listings area"
- marketing of education work through the arts4schools' public mailing list
- discounts on a range of arts4schools' services (courses; arts4schools' conference)
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£95 |
£150 |
£200 |
£250 |
Notes
Prices are for individual artists, and the subsidised/not-for-profit sector. Commercial rates available on request.
Membership fees are based on turnover (ie total income) for the individual or whole organisation for the previous year.
Small is turnover of up to £50,000, medium £50,000 to £500,000 and large is £500,000+
Please note: it is not our intention to unwittingly discriminate against a company whose past turnover doesn't reflect their current financial situation. If your company is unable to pay the appropriate rate please contact us and we will, where possible, accommodate a lower subscription rate.
How do I join?
If you would like to become a member of arts4schools please read our guidelines and code of practice first.
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