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Email PageThe way we work is, first, to identify a need or an opportunity, then thoroughly research the potential for development or improvement, and finally put together a practical package of activities and raise the funding to make them happen.
For example, our two-year Artsplay project came about because, first, we recognised a general need to create more opportunities for professional artists to earn income through their skills, and then, we saw an opportunity to work with a range of child care agencies and groups to put together a project which would train both carers and artists through directly working with pre-school children. Although Artsplay itself came to an end several years ago, it spawned an independent artists’ organisation, Artsplay Highland, and a number of local Artsplay programmes are still running in several parts of the Highlands and Islands.
More recently, our contacts on the ground suggested that the area of the crafts was one which might benefit from a dedicated, time-limited programme of development. With funding from HIE and SAC we commissioned an independent survey of makers and craft businesses. The final report from that survey presented a number of recommendations which formed the basis of the three year programme which we are now delivering.
