Culturelinks Alliance Ltd

1. Arts, Diversity & Equality Development, Management and Training Culturelinks Alliance Ltd

2. Background • Culturelinks is a Social Enterprise, not for profit company. • Its a pioneer in Arts, Diversity & Equality Development, Management and Training with twenty years experience, through work with Arts Council England, Local Government and a range statutory and voluntary sector. • The focus of the services is to bring vision and provide leadership in team building, creating cross community projects, networks and infrastructures. • Champion and Promote Diversity and Equality

3. Our Services Culturelinks provides bespoke services to Arts Organisations, Educational Establishment, Local Authorities and NGOs covering: • Advocacy • Arts and Education • Artistic Programming and Production • Best practice and role models in Human Resource and policy Management • Business and Strategic Development • Capacity Building • Cultural Diversity Strategy and Action plans • Diversity and Equality Management • Events Management (concerts, conference, exhibitions) • Fundraising • National and International Networks & Partnerships • Project Management and Evaluation • Research and Development • Workshops, Participatory Programmes and Residencies

4. Our clients include Arts Council England Arts Practioners and Managers Community Organisations Educational Establishments, Schools, Universities Galleries, Libraries and Museums Local Authorities NGOs Sports Providers Theatres Venues

5. Examples of Projects • Artistic Programming and Production –conferences, events, exhibitions, festivals of varying scales – most recently programming for the Halle Orchestra 150th anniversary 2010, Rumi Festival London 2011 • Diversity and Equality Policies – regional / national equality and diversity policies for Arts Council England, AGMA (Association of Greater Manchester Authorities) the SAGE, Kosmopolis, the Hague, Netherland, the European Research Center, Antalya Turkey • Business and Strategic Development –PANDA (Performing Arts Development Network Agency, Manchester) Khayaal Theatre, Luton, Prism Arts, Carlisle, Northeast Chinese Association, Newcastle upon Tyne • Capacity Building – Contact Theatre, team Beds&Luton, Pakistan Cultural Society, Oldham MBC, Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne • Sports Projects – Faith & Sport Research for Sporting Equals, ‘Inspired Sports’ a programme of sports activities across Bedford and Luton with focus on Muslim and BME Communities

6. Project examples ....... Research - research, analysis, produced assessments reports, diversity & equality toolkits, developed initiatives that have brought about changes with lasting benefits for communities across many regions in England and Scotland. National and International Networks & Partnerships – work with the INCD (international network for cultural diversity) creative sector partnerships in South Africa, India, Pakistan, Europe, Turkey and USA

7. Our Team • Culturelinks has a highly dedicated and experienced team with expertise and range of skills not commonly found, including cultural competence and languages • We also have access artists, admin, marketing and other support available and work to providing bespoke, tailor-made service. • Details of key personnel as follows:

8. Aziz Zeria BA (Hons), MA, Dip Culture Management • Aziz has twenty years experience in arts, community and sports development. He has pioneered wide-ranging policies and programmes in this field specialising in Cultural Diversity, Disability arts, Social Inclusion and Education, through work with Arts Council, Sport England, Local Governments and a wide range of community, statutory and voluntary groups. • His range of skills and experience includes organisational capacity building, governance, audience development, policies, projects, cultural programmes, setting up networks, training and advocacy. • Aziz makes regular contributions to arts, culture and globalisation conferences and debates. His international links and networks in key creative industry agencies include South Asia, South Africa, Europe, Canada,Turkey and the USA.

9. Judy Yacoub MSc MIED • Judy has over 20 years of experience working within the voluntary, public and private sector specialising in community economic development and regeneration, including the design and management of a six year strategic capacity building programme underpinning the development of a community-led regeneration company. Her skills include: • Development of local and sub-regional cross-sectoral and community partnerships; winning and managing over £3.25m funding from a wide range of sources, programme management and innovative project ad enterprise development. • Judy has diverse and extensive experience as a freelance consultant in research, development of generic and bespoke training materials, business advice for BME women strategy development, organisational change, project and programme evaluation, diversity and community cohesion.

10. Nasir Bilal • Nasir has been an Educational Consultant across many regions in the UK • He has extensive experience of international project management especially within the voluntary sector and has worked all over the globe managing grant aid programmes for Muslim Aid. • He has been Training & Employer Adviser to New Deal • Delivers cultural awareness training to ES, training providers & chamber staff • Nasir is a multilinguist who can read, write and speak Urdu, English and Punjabi with the ability to communicate in Arabic and Turkish

11. Mandeep Samra Mandeep is a Consultant / Researcher who for the past 15 years has worked extensively on arts, media and community-based projects throughout Yorkshire including working with Comedia.  Her Expertise include: • Focusing on the cultural sector and issues relating to diversity and regeneration • Specialising in intercultural work, exploring cultural identity and race     • Research into the creative industries sector • Developing projects that encourage, profile and showcase local artists particularly artists from culturally diverse backgrounds • Creative development as a visual artist working with moving, sound and experimental new media artforms • We will revise the swimwear report and fwd it on as soon as possible.

12. Azmat Zeria Over the past fifteen years Azmat has worked extensively in community and education development with projects such as Sure Start. Her focus is to support partnership between communities and learners and development of sustainable models. Her achievements include: learners, especially women develop confidence and recognise abilities within themselves capacity building amongst local schools and educational set ups communities became more competent at handling their own projects Her other skills include business development, domestic violence and child development.

13. The way we will work • Consult and engage • Listen & Analyse • Inspire and Innovate • Developing sustainable networks and partnerships • Formulate ideas to build network & systems that enable achievable goals • Interpret corporate strategies into deliverable objectives • Governance, capacity, infrastructure development • Team building • Record & Document • Leave a lasting legacy

14. What we will produce • A comprehensive consultancy service tailored to your requirements, style and project brief. • Clear, easy to understand reports and action plans. • A full, value for money and evaluated service with clear outcomes. • To deliver on time, to budget and achieve the outcomes set for us.

15. “we can make the difference ”

16. Many Thanks Culturelinks Ltd Contact Aziz Zeria 00-44-7901 144014 aziz@culturelinks.co.uk