Partnerships with external organisations are key to Artswork. Here are some useful creative industry and higher education links.
Bath Spa University
- Bath Spa University
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk - Bath Spa University Careers
http://apple.bathspa.ac.uk/careers/index.htm - Bath Spa University Business Support Services
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/services/business-support/
National and governmental bodies
- Arts and Business
http://www.aandb.org.uk - Arts Council England
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/ - Crafts Council
The UK's national organisation for the promotion of contemporary crafts
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/ - Creative & Cultural Skills
The Sector Skills Council for advertising, crafts, cultural heritage, design, music, performing, literary and visual arts
http://www.ccskills.org.uk/ - Department for Education and Skills
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/ - Department for Culture, Media and Sport
http://www.culture.gov.uk/ - Design Council
The Design Council is the national strategic body for design
http://www.design-council.org.uk - NESTA
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, is working to transform the UK's capacity for innovation
http://www.nesta.org.uk/ -
National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship
http://www.ncge.org.uk/ - Sector Skills Development Agency
http://www.ssda.org.uk/ - Skillfast UK
http://www.skillfast-uk.org/ - Skillset
http://www.skillset.org/
Local and regional organisations
- Artsmatrix
http://www.artsmatrix.org.uk/ - Bath & North East Somerset Council Arts Development
Department
http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/BathNES/lifeandleisure/leisure/artsdevelopment/default.htm - Culture South West
http://www.culturesouthwest.org.uk/ - Intitute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts, University of Bath
http://www.bath.ac.uk/icia/home/ - South West Regional Development Agency
http://www.southwestrda.org.uk/ - South West Screen
http://www.swscreen.co.uk/
Networking, training and support agencies
- BBC Training and Development
http://www.bbctraining.com - ECCA: Enterprise Centre for the Creative Arts
http://www.ecca-london.org - West Focus Creative Industries Network
http://www.westfocus.org.uk/creative/Home.aspx
Funding Opportunities
Higher Education
- Art, Design, Media Subject Centre
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/adm-hea/index.html - PALATINE Subject Centre
The Higher Education subject centre for dance, drama and music http://www.lancs.ac.uk/palatine/ - Creative Enterprise Initiative
http://www.cei.ucreative.ac.uk - Centre for Recording Achievement
http://www.recordingachievement.org/ - English Subject Centre
http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/index.php - The Higher Education Academy
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk - Higher Education Funding Council for England
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/ - Joint Information Systems Committee
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

