Brief for Fundraising Consultant/s

engage

Based in own office, some visits to London may be required

January-March 2012

Fee: up to £10,920 including VAT, plus £200 expenses

engage, the National Association for Gallery Education, wishes to appoint a fundraising consultant or consultants to work with them to secure funding for research and activities in England in 2012-15. engage is the lead organisation for gallery education, with c.1000 members in the UK and internationally across c.330 visual arts organisations. For more information please see

Areas the fundraising consultant/s will work on include Children’s Art Week, (previously called Children’s Art Day). Children’s Art Week is a UK-wide celebration of the work galleries and artists undertake with children, young people and families. The consultant will also fundraise for developing online learning and for research and activities in England for audiences who under-use galleries, e.g. older people, vulnerable children and young people, and disabled and deaf people.

engage has a long history of working on research and activities with specific audience groups, such as: Visual Roots, a placement programme for vulnerable young people in visual arts venues; envision, a campaign to encourage youth-friendly galleries; Explore, a programme supporting galleries to work with disabled and deaf people; and enquire, a programme researching the learning benefits for children and young people of engagement with art and artists. engage has delivered professional development for the arts education sector, for example to artists, teachers and gallery educators through programmes such as Watch this Space, and now seeks to deliver this online. For details of previous programmes please see the engage website. For information on Children’s Art Week please see the appendix.

engage has an established track record of securing funding from public sources, trust and foundations and the corporate sector. engage currently receives funding from Arts Council England as a Regularly Funded Organisation, and is part of their National Portfolio Programme with funding secured for core operations from 2012-15.

engage seeks a minimum of £140,000 funding for research and activities in England, as follows:

2012-13 £30,000

2013-14 £50,000

2014-15 £60,000

Of this a minimum of £10,000 annually will be necessary to run Children’s Art Week.

Separate to this engage is considering applying for some of the available Arts Council England Strategic Funding strands, in particular the Catalyst Arts: capacity building and match funding scheme, and the Touring programme for Children’s Art Week.

The fundraising consultant/s will:

  • Research funding sources for engage research and activities 2012-15
  • Work with engage staff to scope a fundraising strategy and plan for 2012-15
  • Consider the role of engage Board in supporting fundraising, e.g. supporting applications, attendance at events and briefing on fundraising needs
  • Produce a database of potential sources of funding
  • Create templates for fundraising approaches
  • Work with engage staff to draft and submit applications

engage staff and engage freelance programme staff with experience of developing and delivering programmes will support the process of drafting funding bids. In addition to working with engage staff, the fundraising consultant/s will also work with some engage Board members.

This work will be undertaken from January to the end of March 2012.

As the timeframe for the completion of this work is tight we are open to proposals for the work to be completed by more than one consultant. You may choose to submit a proposal from more than one consultant for the whole piece of work, or as an individual for the whole or part of the work detailed in the brief. Please specify in your application.

Person Specification

Essential

  • Recent experience of successfully raising funding for the arts sector, preferably for arts education work
  • A recent track record of securing funding from the public sector, trusts and foundations and from the corporate sector
  • Experience of working with Boards of Trustees on fundraising

Desirable

  • Experience of successful fundraising from individual donors

Fee

A fee of £10,920 (inclusive of VAT) maximum is available for this work,plus expenses of £200.

We would expect the consultant/s to undertake c.26 days workbetween January and March 2012. The exact number of days will be negotiable.

Application process

Please submit the following documents by 10am on Tuesday 20 December to

  • A recent CV/CVs with details of two referees for each applicant
  • A proposal detailing how you would undertake this work (including an estimated number of days and a daily rate), of no more than two sides of A4

To discuss this role further please contact .

Interviews will take place in London on Wednesday 4 January 2012. You will be notified if you have been shortlisted for interview by Friday 23 December.

Appendix

Children’s Art Week

Children’s Art Week (previously Children’s Art Day) has run since 2000 and celebrates children and young people’s engagement with galleries and artists.

Children’s Art Week supports children and young people to access galleries and artists. Events held throughout the UK over a week each summer give children and young people the opportunity, with their teachers, parents and carers, to experience the visual arts and get involved with a very broad range of practical art activities with artists and makers.

Over 200 events took place in 2010, involving around 37,000 participants. We aim for a similar number of events and participants in 2012.

As in previous years there would be a campaign to promote Children’s Art Week 2012 in national, regional and local media. We would also work with high profile ambassadors to promote the week. For more information, visit