AccessArt Cultural Organisation Membership is aimed at organisations working across the arts, culture and heritage sectors with an educational offer. If you share our values, then we invite you to join our 24,000 members based in the UK and overseas.
AccessArt Cultural Organisation Membership can benefit your organisation and employees through:
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Audience Development – We can help you better understand your audiences’ evolving educational needs, identify new opportunities and deepen engagement.
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Skill Development – Access our respected and continually evolving collection of high-quality, artist-led educational ideas and activities to help you create engaging arts education experiences for your audiences.
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A Legacy for your Projects – AccessArt provides a platform to share your arts education practice with our wider community, showcasing your projects and inspiring new audiences.
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Partnership Opportunities – Consider naming AccessArt as a partner when planning future projects. We can bring our audience, expertise and vision to your arts education initiatives, helping to strengthen your funding applications.
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Collaboration in Advocacy – AccessArt is a passionate advocate for art education for all. By joining our voices and championing our shared belief in the value of the arts, we can make a stronger collective impact.
AccessArt is a UK registered charity and a Subject Association for art. We are also backed by BESA (British Educational Suppliers Association) in recognition of the quality of the services we provide.
Explore the Benefits of Becoming an AccessArt Cultural Organisation Member…
Audience Development
We can help you understand the evolving educational needs of your audiences, identify opportunities and deepen engagement.
For many cultural organisations, this may mean building stronger relationships with schools, further education (FE) providers, artist educators and other cultural organisations. By becoming an AccessArt member, you can connect with our growing community of 24,000 members and 6,000 subscribers, including teachers, artist educators and other cultural organisations.
In addition to helping you connect with audiences, we can support you in developing a deeper understanding of their needs. Our CPD sessions and events, which are free for members, bring together a range of voices, including key government and industry specialists.
Skill Development
AccessArt offers a highly respected and continually evolving collection of high-quality, artist-led educational ideas and activities, helping cultural organisations create inspiring experiences that connect audiences with their collections and programmes.
As an AccessArt member, you’ll gain access to a wealth of practical resources, developed in a variety of educational settings and adaptable to suit different audiences, spaces and learning environments. Our resources are organised into an index making it easy to find activities by material, skill, discipline, theme or artistic movement.
Alongside our inspiring activities, our pedagogy resources offer practical guidance and insights to help your educational team develop and strengthen their teaching practice.
A Legacy for your Projects
AccessArt can help extend the life and impact of your educational projects by sharing them with our wider community.
Every exhibition, commission, funded project or programme creates valuable ideas, learning and experiences. If your cultural organisation has delivered a successful project, we can help extend its reach and impact by sharing it with our wider community, celebrating your approach and creating a lasting legacy.
Discover how AccessArt is creating legacy for cultural organisations:
Partnership Opportunities
Consider naming AccessArt as a partner when planning future projects. We can bring our audience, expertise and vision to your educational projects to help strengthen your funding bids.
Our partnership may look different for different organisations according to their needs, from shorter-term projects to more sustained collaborations.
Our partnership may look like:
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Being named as a partner to strengthen your funding bids
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Providing in-kind funding or pay for projects that you share with us
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Co-hosting CPD and event sessions to share projects, explore outcomes and share approaches
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Working with the AccessArt community to pilot new approaches, gather feedback and learn from practice
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Sharing campaigns and initiatives with our network
Discover how AccessArt has partnered with cultural organisations:
Collaboration in Advocacy
AccessArt is a strong advocate for art education for all. By speaking together and sharing our common belief in the value of the arts, we all become stronger.
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