Association for Cultural Enterprises

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Association for Cultural Enterprises equips people with the skills to maximise commercial income in the arts & heritage world, through digital events and training, exclusive member resources, unrivaled networking, and with study days and masterclasses.

https://culturalenterprises.org.uk

VocalEyes

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VocalEyes support theatres, museums and heritage sites to welcome and provide accessible and inclusive experiences, particularly for blind and visually impaired people. They provide audio description services for live performances, events, tours and recorded/digital AD for online video or mobile audio tours. They also provide advice, consultancy, and free promotion of all accessible cultural experiences to the blind and visually impaired community.

https://vocaleyes.co.uk

Arts Marketing Association

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The Arts Marketing Association provides training, resources and networking opportunities to help arts, culture and heritage organisations reach more audiences, more effectively. They deliver a rolling programme of training focused on digital marketing, audience development, organisational development and practical marketing skills, along with opportunities for their members and the sector to connect and share skills.

https://www.a-m-a.co.uk

The Audience Agency

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The Audience Agency (TAA) is an independent research and development organisation whose purpose is to enable a thriving, people-centred cultural sector fit for the future, and better able to create cultural and creative opportunity for everyone. They provide research, services and insight which help their network of clients and stakeholders adapt for and with their communities. Their tools and services are designed to support all cultural organisations to understand and grow their audiences, no matter their size, artform or budget.

https://www.theaudienceagency.org

Collections Trust

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Collections Trust helps museums capture and share the information that gives their objects meaning. As a Sector Support Organisation they deliver a substantial programme of Arts Council England funded activity, including free training and advice through an outreach programme delivered via the Museum Development Network. Their website offers a large selection of free resources to help museums manage their collections, digitise them, and present them engagingly online.

https://collectionstrust.org.uk

The Space

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The Space is a commissioning and development agency supporting greater digital access to the arts. Founded by Arts Council England and the BBC, they are now an independent, not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to increase the audience reach and impact of publicly funded arts and culture through digital technologies and to build digital skills across the cultural sector.

https://www.thespace.org

Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy

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Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy’s mission is to strengthen arts, culture and heritage organisations’ resilience and sustainability by transforming their fundraising knowledge, skills and levels of success. The work is funded by Arts Council England and is led by the Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy Consortium which includes Cause4 as lead partner, the University of Leeds and the Arts Marketing Association (AMA).

https://artsfundraising.org.uk

National Lottery Heritage Fund

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Do you work or volunteer for a heritage organisation looking to develop its use of digital technology? The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Digital Skills for Heritage initiative ran until 2024 and was designed to raise digital skills and confidence across the UK heritage sector. Many of the resources created as part of the initiative are still available on the the Digital Heritage Hub website.

https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/article/digital-skills-heritage

Culture24

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Culture24 was an independent charity who between 2001 and 2023 helped arts and heritage people drive positive change inside their organisations, building resilience and capacity. They are now part of The Audience Agency having merged their two charities in December 2023. This site is an archive of their work up until then.

https://www.culture24.org.uk/

StageTEXT

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Stagetext supports the cultural sector to be accessible to d/Deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people, by providing and promoting captions and live subtitles.

https://stagetext.org