Collaborators

ArtWorks Alliance is a network of organisations and individuals with strategic interests in participatory arts, including community arts, socially-engaged arts, voluntary arts, and arts in education and learning. We come together as ArtWorks Alliance to help participatory arts in the UK become better.

The Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) is an ambitious transnational cultural programme focusing on the dynamic area of collaborative arts.

Helena Partnerships was established in 2002, when they took over around 14,400 homes from St Helens Council and is the largest housing partnership in St Helens

Part of St Helens Library Services, St.Helens Council Arts Service supports the development of all art forms including music, dance, drama, creative writing, new media, visual and public art.

Platform formed in November 2011, Platform's key aim was to establish artist studios in St Helens, which occurred in March 2012. Since then six artists have worked from studios above St Mary's Market with a wider base of around 40 associate artists being involved in exhibitions, talks, workshops and other events to strengthen the arts in St Helens.

At the World of Glass museum in St Helens you can see live glassblowing demonstrations or why not try your hand at blowing a glass bauble on one of our glassblowing courses . The museum hosts a number of attractions including two galleries.

Arts Council England champions, develops and invests in artistic and cultural experiences that enrich people's lives. They support a range of activities across the arts, museums and libraries - from theatre to digital art, reading to dance, music to literature, and crafts to collections.

Between 2011 and 2015, we will invest £1.4 billion of public money from government and an estimated £1 billion from the National Lottery to help create these experiences for as many people as possible across the country. Government funding is received from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and requirements are laid out in our funding agreement with them.

Acorn Farm is an award-winning, family-friendly farm based in Kirkby, Merseyside.

YMCA St Helens have been delivering services to the community for over 100 years. These services work across: accommodation, family work, health & wellbeing, training & education, support & advice.

Refugee Women Connect, previously known as MRANG, is a women-only charity set up to support women asylum-seekers, refugees and survivors of trafficking. They work to build a safe life in the UK for all women in the asylum seeker and refugee community.

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is a Liverpool-based cinema, art gallery and the UK's leading organisation for the support & exhibition of film, art and new media.