Services
Whether you are an arts organisation, artist or Local Authority Arts Service, to succeed there has to be a strong business structure underpinning all activity.

Vibrant arts organisations are often registered charities and they exist to fulfil their charitable objectives for a particular audience or set of audiences. Artists have a tangible artistic talent and vision that they want to share with others. Local authorities have a responsibility to ensure the arts are available for all. They all share in having a vision and a mission that is delivered with passion and creativity for the benefit of others.

Whether you are a registered charity, individual artist or local authority you may not be a commercial business but to succeed in achieving your social and artistic aims you must operate organisationally with a business mindset to ensure long term viability.

To this end Spark Arts is keen to help spark arts development wherever there is potential by offering a range of services in the following fields.

Funding Friend
‘Its more than just money’

Developing a long term fundraising plan including areas not often considered together such as marketing, PR and identifying new income streams

Approaching funders

Writing funding applications

Leading and writing consortium based funding applications
Project Manager
‘Leaving your project in safe hands’

Project Conception (acting as a catalyst to develop and define projects with multiple partners)

Finding the Funds (making and delivering fundraising plans to realise the project)

Project Planning

Project Delivery

Project Evaluation
Consultant
‘Step back to step forward’

Reviewing, researching and developing your overall business plan

Building development plans for specific areas of your arts business

Audits

Strategic Project Development

Partnership Development