WHALE Arts Annual Report 2021-22

Annual Report 2021 - 2022

Trustee Reflection

2022 has been another year of change and challenge for everyone in Wester Hailes, and WHALE Arts, as we emerge from the pandemic and adapt to the post-pandemic world. It is fantastic to see the building buzzing with activity again, and to hear about all the amazing projects that are being created.

This year was also WHALE's 30th Anniversary a huge milestone and it was fantastic to see the community come together with the WHALE Arts team to celebrate this in August and to debut WHALE's new look!

A personal highlight for me was the exhibition of photography showing Wester Hailes through the years, and it emphasised for me the role that creativity and collaboration has always played in the community As a Board Member, I am constantly inspired and humbled by the dedication of WHALE staff, artists and volunteers to the community of Wester Hailes and by the way the community continues to engage with and support the mission of WHALE

On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I would like to offer our sincere thanks to Leah and Kate, and the hugely dedicated staff team, artists, partners and creatives we have worked with throughout the year. Special recognition should also be given to our brilliant volunteers, who often go above and beyond to support WHALE And a final thank you to you, our members, for your continued support and contribution to WHALE Arts. Together you make WHALE Arts more than the sum of its parts

There are so many exciting ventures and projects planned for the next year, and I can't wait to reflect on all we will have achieved when it comes to next year's AGM!

Here's to another 30 successful years!

Charlotte Binstead Board Member

About WHALE Arts

WHALE Arts is a building based and place based community led charity and social enterprise which acts as a conduit between our community and creative opportunities through the delivery of projects, programmes and events and by connecting our community with city and national partners.

We work hard with partners to share and celebrate the quality creative and cultural projects that happen in the area and to build upon these successes to inspire and empower residents, workers, artists and designers to continue to demonstrate the power of creativity as a driver of social change.

Visit by Angus Robertson, MSP Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture to smARTies summer holiday mural project with Artist Hailey Beavis. Photo credit: Verity Combe

Strategy & Themes

WHALE Arts 5 year Strategic Plan. Our key themes for 2019 2024 are:

Health, Wellbeing, Happiness Economy, Enterprise, Learning, Skills Places and Spaces Development and Improvement Data, Design, Evaluation, Innovation Communication, Conversation, Co production

Talat Yaqoob with the WHALE Arts mural created by Kerry Wilson as part of the Women in STEM Street Art Trail, in partnership with Edinburgh Science. Photo by Ollie Benton.

Mission, Vision, Values

Mission

We create the conditions for our community in Wester Hailes to work alongside artists and cultural practitioners to become agents for change who will proactively co-design, participate in, support or lead quality creative activity at all stages of their lives

Vision

Wester Hailes is a creative, thriving, resilient, fair community.

Values

Equality; Equity; Diversity; Inclusion we welcome everyone and strive to support anyone who wants to take part, we consider equity to be important as well as equality and we tailor activities accordingly when we can.

Creativity in its broadest sense and placed firmly at the heart of everything that we do, we see creativity as a way of unlocking self-expression, problem-solving, learning and joy.

Openness we encourage generosity, kindness and facilitate the sharing of ideas.

Tenacity we are brave and ambitious for ourselves as an organisation and for the people we work with: we foster resilience and resourcefulness.

Working Together we recognise we are one part of a bigger system and that we will be more successful if we work with others who share our vision.

Innovation AND Continuity we celebrate and sustain successful initiatives but balance this with taking risks and trying new things.

Introduction - Chief Executive

I am delighted to be writing this as Interim CEO whilst Leah Black is on secondment. As part of the WHALE Arts team for the past 12 years, I hope I am a familiar face to most and it was wonderful to see so many people from WHALE Arts story from the past 30 years at our Birthday Party in August.

2021 2022 continued to be a challenging time with the pandemic continuing to impact our work, but we changed and adapted and were pleased to welcome everyone back to the building to take part in activities together, once it was safe to do so. As well as restarting and relaunching our programmes we've been working on our new projects designing and developing our café, upgrading our kitchen and the fun bit testing menu options! We've also been making great progress with our plans for the Community Asset Transfer for ownership of the land our building sits on

We were thrilled to be finalists as Charity of the Year category in the Scottish Charity Awards 2021 for our work during the pandemic this was a real tribute to the hard work and dedication of the WHALE Arts team, Board, volunteers and supporters.

Next year we will continue to consolidate a solid base to weather the coming storms ahead and to be in the best position to support our community with the cost of living challenges that will affect us all With a view to the longer term, we'll also continue to develop existing plans and new ideas to enhance and celebrate our creative, connected community.

Thank you to our funders, supporters and volunteers for all they do and to the brilliant Members, Board and staff team for their creativity, commitment, integrity, enthusiasm and kindness.

Kate Griffin, Interim CEO

"I just wanted to congratulate you and the team on your nomination for Charity of the Year, well done I am so happy to see you all being recognised for all the hard work and amazing contribution to supporting and inspiring children and their families in our local community. We have all been voting for you here at Hailesland, good luck!!

Carla Donachy, Head of Hailesland Early Years Centre

Our Participants & Volunteers

10,412 people visited the WHALE Arts Centre

There were 6,050 participations over the year in a range of building-based and outreach activities.

926 people participated in 456 regular sessions, online and in-person, offering a diverse range of creative activities for all ages and abilities. 2028 participants took part in our activities this year

1102 people participated in 199 holiday, partnership and one-off events, at WHALE Arts Centre and community spaces and places.

42 volunteers contributed 162 hours of support for community meals, gardening, art and wellbeing activities and more. THANK YOU!

Health, Wellbeing & Happiness

Our Health, Wellbeing and Happiness strand of work encompasses a wide range of regular groups, events, workshops and partnership projects Promoting positive wellbeing through engagement with the creative process is at the heart of what we do.

For us, this means reducing reported levels of anxiety, depression and social isolation Increasing self confidence and self esteem. Increasing social connectedness, positive relationships and sense of purpose within the community Supporting people on this journey is our ultimate goal

Adults

smARTcraft is a group for adults with additional support needs. The calm atmosphere of the class allows people to concentrate on creating art smARTcraft participants are a wonderful, warm, funny and talented group of people who thrive in the atmosphere that the group provides. The group seems to bring participants great joy, as they are able to create art and crafts with the freedom to go in whatever direction they like and be part of a group that share similar lives to themselves.

Let’s Create A therapeutic art group for women supporting those struggling with poor mental health. The group was really impacted by the lockdowns but since the return to WHALE, participants have created works they are really proud of and the meal at the end of the sessions allows time to reflect and for the women to come together, share and bond.

"I wouldn’t miss it for the world. I haven’t even slept yet but I really wanted to make sure I came " Let's Create participant

Stitch 'N' Time

It has been a busy time sewing and making items for the community since returning to the building The group were very excited to see each other again and enthusiastic to get working on a group project. Sadly, during the pandemic, we lost one of our much-loved members Unable to attend the funeral the group decided to mark her passing by creating a special artwork. She loved hugs so a string of hugging cushions linked together with arms was created and everyone decorated a cushion with something that reminded them of her Other projects included tool belts for Mens' Makers and Christmas gifts for volunteers.

"I honestly do not know what I would do without this amazing group to come to It’s the happiest part of my week.”

Arts and Wellbeing Programme Participant

"The group gave you permission to explore/fai where at home you wouldn’t want to mess it up It’s all 'See where it goes!' Pushing yourself "

Art in the Open participant

Art in the Open An outdoor, therapeutic, creative group for p mental health problems. It was set up to allow us to target sp community needs specifically processing covid related stress an outdoors allowed us to start working with vulnerable comm restrictions eased enough to start re engaging with our regular gro

The 3 main achievements of this group so far have been:

Creativity relieving mental health struggles and supporting p express their emotions.

Group dynamics providing a social experience to alleviate lo a space for sharing and collaboration.

Art activities giving participants an opportunity to try new thin them outside of the group

Open Studio Uniquely amongst our other Health, Wellbeing Studio is a drop in group: it's not taught and is simply a space work on their own creative projects The popularity of the O expectations: 31 different individuals have attended so far, with 1 WHALE and the rest either being completely new to the organisa , g WHALE but had never joined a group before The majority of people attending have long term health conditions and the group is now led by a former Stitch 'N' Time member, who also has long term health conditions

Although untaught, participants are always keen to learn new skills and as a result frequent informal skill sharing occurs between participants. This has brought increased confidence both to those learning new skills and those who've been teaching and sharing with others. Strengthening independent working has been another huge success for many in the group alongside increased self esteem through the repeated achievement of completing a task without the need for assistance

Men's Makers

A creative social group for individuals who want to use their skills, learn new ones or just socialise with others. During covid WHALE's Males a walking group for local men, was developed in place of Men’s Makers as this was challenging to return to in-person due to the tool and equipment sharing Currently the group are focusing on wood working skills and have been making garden planters and working on individual projects.

Young People & Families

Accessible Arts Programme: Play Sense Create & Explore projects artist led sessions for children with Additional Support Needs and their families, initially delivering online sessions and art packs, returning to in person sessions when it was possible. We worked in a number of different ways to support our participants with disabilities and additional support needs during the past year as many of our participants have complex health conditions that meant they were shielding or vulnerable.

We delivered: 71 one to one and small group sessions, 37 Christmas packs and 6 packs for families unable to access services as they had covid. Sessions/packs this year included glow in the dark paint messy play sessions, Gingerbread glitter slime packs, UV light play packs, musical painting, Sensory paint swimming, water splash sessions, spaghetti play, model making, magical crafts and potion making.

"In these extremely challenging times having a safe place to come for tailored activities has been extremely important to us there is literally nowhere else for us now "

"PSC is amazing, they totally get it, we ALL love coming to the sessions"

Explore and Play , Sense , Create families

Wellbeing sessions we held a series of wellbeing sessions including yoga, sensory meditation and relaxation drawing for 10+ year olds during the October break in partnership with EPIC.

"I would like to have more of these sessions because they are very relaxing would be good for helping to relax like on a Sunday when I'm feeling stressed about school"

Feedback from young people from Wellbeing sessions

Let's Play Wester Hailes An exciting new digital programme for young people in partnership with Edinburgh Napier University's School of Computing department Working with staff from the University we are supporting young people to create video games based on their local area. Through this we are running blocks of sessions with each local primary school, launched a Computer Club a fortnightly afterschool session at WHALE Arts, and ran a summer coding week So far we have delivered 37 sessions reaching 251 young people

games.

Let's Play Wester Hailes participant

“It was great. I loved making our

The teachers were really nice.”

Economy, Enterprise, Learning & Skills

Under this theme we work with local people to develop projects focused on skills, creative learning and enterprise development As with our other strands of work we co produce these programmes with local people, building on existing skills and interests.

Adults

Adult Digital Skills An in person drop in session providing digital skills support to local people. We transitioned from weekly online digital support sessions to in person digital support sessions from August 21. To ensure everyone was safe we instituted a booking system with reduced numbers to allow for social distancing. Over the year we ran 46 sessions for 30 people resulting in 170 participations We covered topics such as how to use Zoom, how to use new devices, how to apply for jobs using online tools, apply for benefits and school places.

“I would be lost without the sessions and your help. I’m so grateful for the computer class here It’s helped me do things like pay bills online, I would have no clue how to do on my own ” Digital Skills participant

Digital Sentinel A special edition for the Push the Boat Out Poetry Festival focused on creative writing composed by local people was delivered to households in Wester Hailes, as well as regular online content and community updates on the news website

Pod Press Our co production Manifesto was co produced with the community and printed on our amazing machine. All of the groups on the adult program have taken part in Risograph printing workshops where participants have had the chance to design and print their own two colour prints 6 staff members and 2 volunteers have been trained to use the machine We ran a number of drop in sessions where staff, volunteers, students from Edinburgh College and participants came to design and print workshops Our Riso machine has printed work for artists, festive cards and posters for WHALE events and created artwork for the Push the Boat Out Festival WHALE Poets, displayed at Summerhall

Riso participant about Artist in Residence Morvern Odling

"She is an inspirational woman and I'm so grateful for her time, wisdom and input"

Mums into Business This group provides highly creative and tailored business support to women facing multiple barriers who want to set up their own businesses. At the heart of this is helping the women to increase their confidence and self esteem alongside their knowledge, abilities and skills. Our provision of a free creche has been both ground breaking and essential to the success of the group During lockdown, we even trialled a virtual creche so as to allow our mums a chance to focus on the Zoom sessions.

“I started from 0 thanks to Mums into Business help me create a logo, social media and materials Now I sell a range of traditional earrings with Fiji design internationally Being a mum of 6 is not easy trying to combine but the creche was a massive help"

Mums into Business member

Create Community Wealth This exciting long term collaborative project aims to develop micro enterprises across the communities in Wester Hailes and Muirhouse in Edinburgh.

Inspired by the grassroots movement of the Granby Four Streets in Liverpool and other Community Wealth Building initiatives around the world, this project aims to tackle social exclusion and improve wellbeing and local economic prospects through creativity. Create Community Wealth is part of a wider national Culture Collective programme and is a partnership between WHALE Arts, North Edinburgh Arts, SCOREscotland and Passion4Fusion.

The project’s main focus is to engage with local people and help them to develop and create unique products and services and, to create or tap into sustainable selling platforms. By the end of 2021, we had a full team of 6 freelance creatives and a project coordinator working within the Wester Hailes and Muirhouse communities. Project participants are already exploring a f d t d i l t d b i d ll ll ti th C ft C fé h b

"We've had a great family summer thanks to you

The kids love the activities and had a great time!"

Parent

Young People

Boat building project We worked with partners Archipelago Folk School to run a model boat building project. Young people were given all the materials and parts to make the boats which were part of a national flotilla of boats created during the pandemic. We ran an in person session to decorate the ships and tested them on the water

Street Arts Creative youth sessions every Thursday evening in four locations across Wester Hailes We did several exciting projects this year including phone photography, film making, acting and script writing with 'Revolution' film project. The project was part of a citywide programme delivered in partnership with Theatre Sans Accents

Holidays Easter holidays Restrictions meant we were unable to deliver in person sessions so we created 250 packs on 3 themes: fluffy bunnies & lambs for early years, outdoor play, and nature craft. We were part of Scotland's Summer of Play project which provided food and activities for over 300 children and young people. The programme included Indian dance with Theiya Arts, online art making with City Art Centre, Spy School, sensory playtime for 0–3 year olds in partnership with Starcatchers and more.

Family arts events We held a Tropical themed summer silent disco, crafts and cooking day and delivered weekly family music sessions for 12 Saturdays Cook It Up Eat It Up sessions allowed families to learn some new cooking skills and enjoy eating the tasty dinners they created.

smARTies Our artist led after school club for primary age children offered art packs, garden and in person making sessions A new 'Welcome to WHALE Arts' mural was created by smARTies artists for the

"This is my favourite place to be I love it here, it makes me happy I wish could come and make art with you everyday " smARTies young person.

Community Development

Our membership grew by 66%, with 34 new members bringing our membership to an all time high of 85 members in March 2022. In terms of membership engagement, we held 11 Members’ Breakfasts, with a mixture of online and in person meetings, as we safely managed a transition out of lockdown. Throughout the year we organised three day trips for our members, including a summer visit to the V&A Museum and other galleries in Dundee, and a day out to local sculpture park Jupiter Artland with partners Edinburgh Art Festival. Through these trips, 20 members had free access to five different galleries and museums in Dundee and Edinburgh.

We supported members to participate in our rebranding process with Bold Studios, held our third Wester Hailes Open Exhibition, and created space to meet and talk with local people through ‘community walkabouts’ and community drop in sessions.

For our Community Asset Transfer, the process that facilitates community ownership of the land beneath and surrounding WHALE Arts, we worked with consultants Community Enterprise to carry out a community consultation and develop a business strategy for future developments and social enterprise. This work provided the evidence required for us to take our application for the Asset Transfer forward with City of Edinburgh Council and the Scottish Land Fund In the wider community, we continued to support the Wester Hailes Community Trust through the development of their Local Place Plan by participating in their steering group

Networks & Partnerships

2021 22 was a busy year for our increasing number of partnerships both locally and nationally We launched the Creative Community Hubs Network project, an exciting opportunity to support the development of creative community hubs across Edinburgh that will continue into 2022 23

Go Beyond, a joint initiative across the South West to develop Community Wealth building grass roots continued to expand and develop We ran multiple events involving community members and partners, further supported by local authority staff with contributions from Police Scotland, Prospect Housing and Edinburgh Health and Social Care partnership We took part in forum meetings, shared our work via forums and events and are members of a National Community Wealth building group

We also continued to play an active role in Living Well Wester Hailes, a well-established network of local stakeholder organisations which meets regularly to support partnership working across Wester Hailes. We continued and deepened our long term relationship with Wester Hailes Community Trust and worked with them to further develop the Wester Hailes Local Place Plan, with Urban Pioneers Landscape Architects. We also continued to work on the Seven Kingdoms collaborative project in partnership with Napier University We obtained funding for a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Kinning Park Complex in Glasgow, which has resulted in several visits to each other sites and ongoing discussions in relation to sharing best practice and comparing our different but related approaches to community development We see this collaborative approach to partnership working as absolutely fundamental to our key goal of supporting local people to thrive

In addition to our regular programmes, we have worked on a range of projects with partners such as Edinburgh Art Festival, which included a long term social practice commission with Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk. We also worked with Starcatchers, Napier University, Prospect Housing, SCOREscotland, The Health Agency, Wester Hailes Community Trust, Push the Boat Out Poetry Festival amongst many others.

A new mural was created for the end of the WHALE building by artist Kerry Wilson as part of the Women in STEM Street Art trail in partnership with Edinburgh Science Festival WHALE Arts participants and members voted for the scientist they'd like to see depicted. Talat Yaqoob was chosen to be represented. Talat is an award-winning Scottish campaigner, writer, and activist working as an independent consultant in education, workplace equality, women ’ s rights, race equality and inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.

Thanks to...

Our Partners

7N Architects

About Youth

Architecture and Design Scotland

Archipelago Folk School

Art in Healthcare

Business Fives

Calders Residents Association

Canal View Primary School

Capital Theatres

CHAI

Clovenstone Community Centre

Clovenstone Primary School

Dove Centre

Edible Estates

Edinburgh and Lothian Greenspace Trust

Edinburgh Art Festival Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society

Edinburgh International Science Festival Edinburgh Napier University

Edinburgh Tool Library Epic Assist Scotland

Fruitmarket Gallery Grass Roots Remedies

Ian Gilzean, Scottish Government and Rebecca Foy, Architect (Local Place Plan)

Living Well Wester Hailes

National Galleries of Scotland Open Book

Prospect Community Housing Push the Boat Out Poetry Festival Puppet Animation Scotland Room for Art

Royal Lyceum Theatre

SCOREscotland Scottish Poetry Library Screen Education Edinburgh Sighthill Primary School Sistema Big Noise Space and Broomhouse Hub Starcatchers

The Health Agency The Youth Agency Theiya Arts

Wester Hailes Community Trust Wester Hailes Library With Kids

Thanks to...

Our Funders

ABC Foundation

Algrade Trust Anderson, Anderson and Brown Awards for All Baily Thomas Charitable Trust Batchworth Charitable Trust BBC Children In Need Binks Trust

Brian and Lesley Knox Fund Brownless Charitable Trust Capital City Partnership Casa Stella Charitable Initiative Children in Need City of Edinburgh Council Clothworkers Foundation Cordis Charitable Trust Courant Fund for Children Creative Scotland Cruden Foundation Development Trusts and Associations Scotland Dr Guthrie’s Association

Edinburgh Airport Edinburgh Napier University Elizabeth Errington Trust Emergencies Trust Erskine Cunningham Hill

Fitton Trust Foundation Scotland & National Garfield Weston Good Things Foundation

John Watson Trust

Kilpatrick Fraser Charitable Trust Lothian Buses Foundation Maple Trust

Mbili Trust Mickel Fund

Miss Isabel Harvey Charitable Trust Nancie Massey Charitable Trust

Nancy Brown Charitable Trust National Lottery Community Fund

New Park Educational Trust

One City Trust Paristamen CIO People’s Health Trust Pleasance Trust

Ponton House Trust Postcode Community Trust Prospect Housing Association Pump House Trust Robertson Trust

Royal Academy of Engineering RS MacDonald Charitable Trust Ryvoan Trust

Sabina Sutherland Charitable Trust Scottish Government Scottish Land Fund

SCVO Digital Charter Fund Sir Ian Stewart Foundation Soil Association

Souter Charitable Trust Stafford Trust STV Foundation

The Batchworth Trust

The David Family Foundation

The Haramead Trust

The Hugh Fraser Foundation

The Irving Memorial Trust

The Mushroom Trust

The Walker Family Charitable Trust

The Westwood Charitable Trust Thistledown Trust

Thomas Wall Trust Travers Smtih Trefoil Trust

Walker Family Charitable Trust Ward Family Charitable Trust Ward Family Trust WCH Trust for Children

William Grant Foundation

William Syson Charitable Foundation Youthlink Scotland

Who We Are

Staff

Board Trustees

Craig Tyrie

Dawn Borthwick

Elaina Garcia

Fabien Merville

Kate Griffin

Kirsty Frankland

Laura Delahunt

Laura Tyrrell

Leah Black

Lorna Baxter

Michael Bowdidge

Michelle Robson

Rebecca Livingstone

Roz Shah

Shirin Karbor

Susan Gibson Tiki Muir Verity Combe

Finance & Payroll

Heather Hartman

Jill Scott

Judith Pritchard

Andrew McNiven (Vice Chair)

Allan McNaughton

Charlotte Binstead

Emily Stevenson

Euan Maclean Eunice Main Grant Williams (Chair) Jade Jackson Kenneth Fowler Ross Campbell

Volunteers

Alice Creasy

Alison Johnston

Allan McNaughton

Anna Mulkeen

Charlie Wright Chelsea Elvin Clara Spence Claire Dancer Daisy Brown Derek Balfour Dean Wright Donna Heritage Ellie Watson

Ema-Sayuru Nyx

Eunice Main Evelyn Hardie Gian Kaur

Harriet Dodd Holly McDonald Jackie Blake

JJ Fadaka

Joan Aitken

Jodie Johnson

John McClarey Jonny Taylor Júlia Nadal

Laima Lubkevic Lian McLeod

Louize Gibson

Lucy Reynolds

Lukasz Paluszkiewicz

Mia Debenham Mark McKenzie Mark Howden

Paul Ross Pere Alcantara

Ross McFarlan

Shirley Ann May Seona O’Flaherty

Shona Cook Susan Gibson

Tinashe Chengeta

Who We Are

Freelancer Team

Angela Austin Banks Lead Creative – Create Community Wealth (Wester Hailes)

Anna Maxwell Artist, support worker Explore & Play Sense Create

Asia Jaworska Dorozynska Lead Creative Create Community Wealth (North Edinburgh)

Bob Winton Project Documenter Create Community Wealth

Conor O'Donnell Artist, Explore & Play Sense Create

Debbie Wright Lead Artist, Stitch 'N' Time

Dr Tom Flint – Creative Collaborator, Digital Skills & Creative Placemaking

Gemma Smith Artist & youthworker Street Arts, smARTies, Play Sense Create

Jill McKirdy Artist, Street Arts, smARties, young people's programmes

Julia Davies Lead Artist Open Studio

Julie Przyborski Create Community Wealth Supporting Creative

Katy Wilson Artist, young people’s programmes

Kirstin Cunningham Abrahams Accessible Arts Programme Coordinator, Artist, Play Sense

Create, Explore, young people's programmes

Lillian Shipton Lead Artist, Let’s Create, Art in the Open

Liz Waterston Artist, youthworker, Street Arts, smARTies, young people's programmes

Louize Gibson Artist, youthworker, Street Arts, smARTies, young people's programmes

Luisa Brown Artist, Street Arts

Marie Williamson Artist, Street Arts, young people's programmes

Marion Preez Place Vision Lead, Seven Kingdoms

Mark Carr Artist/facilitator Men’s Makers

Max Alexander Artist, Street Arts, Play Sense Create, Explore

Mhairi Braden Artist Pod Press

Mirja Koponen Artist, Creative Placemaking, smARTies & Street Arts

Morgan Njobo Artist, Play Sense Create

Mo Odling Co production Artist in Residence

Nicola Atkinson commissioned Artist, Creative Placemaking

Oliver Benton project Photographer & Artist, Street Arts, young people's programmes & Create Community Wealth supporting creative

Rachael Hunter Artist, smARTcraft

Rene Sommer Lindsay Place Vision Lead, Seven Kingdoms

Rosalie Williamson Youthworker, Street Arts, SmARTies, young people's programmes

Rosalind Sanderson – Explore & Play Sense Create

Roz McAndrew Accessible Arts Programme Coordinator, Artist, Play Sense Create, Explore, young people's programmes

Sindy Santos Lead, Mums into Business

Tanis Grandison Creative Collaborator, Digital Skills & Creative Placemaking

Tonya McMullen Create Community Wealth Supporting Creative

Will Thorburn Artist, Street Arts, young people's programmes

Yvonne Bostock – Advisor, Mums into Business