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For everyone

• employing an artist
• health and safety at outdoor events
• deaf arts development
• results of rural creative economy research project

For artists

• working in schools
• funding advice
• developing your creative business

For educators

• inspire creativity
• working with artists
• funding for creative learning
• planning for safety
• extended school services
• arts award
• artsmark
• creative learning

Get involved

• getting involved
• volunteering
• join a group
• forums and networks

Festivals

• festivals in derbyshire
• festival toolkit

This section of the site is intended to provide artists, the general public and those with an interest in employing artists with useful information and advice. From here you can:

• find out about getting funding for all aspects of the arts
• find out why volunteering in the arts can be so rewarding
• look at the issues involved with employing an artist
• get help with developing your artistic business professionally
• visit the Inspire Creativity pages that provide a space where teachers and pupils can interact, share ideas and gain inspiration, all in an effort to make learning become more fun, creative and effective for everyone. 

*NEW* Festival Online Toolkit

Derbyshire County Council, on behalf of Derbyshire Arts Partnership, commissioned this Festivals Toolkit, which provides a wide range of information and guidance for all festivals for effectively managing an event.

Create your own minisite

artsderbyshire provides registered users with free space on the artsderbyshire website. These ‘minisites’ are for artists, creative practitioners, arts organisations, clubs and societies. You’ll get your own suite of webpages with information about your activities, projects and events. 

We've created a special  minisites tutorial [Word doc 1.1MB] to take you through creating your own webspace step by step

Article of the month

How artsderbyshire website came about...

artsderbsyhire is just over a year old and getting lots of  visits and interest.  We wrote this article about how it started for the National Association of Local Government Arts Officers magazine and have reprinted it here.
Created: 12/02/08

Get help recruiting new board members

Find out how Arts & Business can help your voluntary arts organisation to recruit talented and experienced business people to your board.
Created: 13/02/07

Arts Award

Find out about Arts Award - A new scheme that values, celebrates and rewards the views, artistic practice and leadership of young people who get involved in the arts.   
Created: 19/10/06  Revised: 22/10/06