envision

The context

The organisation

ProjectBase is a contemporary visual arts organisation commissioning internationally established artists to work with local communities to present exciting and innovative projects.  The organisation is non-venue based with a remit to work in the county of Cornwall, and not in one specific location, urban setting or venue. This means we do not have a permanent exhibition or interaction space.
From 7 July to 2 September 2007 ProjectBase presented social systems, an exhibition of new works by international artists and artists’ collectives, at Newlyn Art Gallery, The Exchange, Tate St Ives and in the Public Realm.
ProjectBase aims to raise expectation of contemporary visual art in Cornwall and create a platform for critical debate. The Interaction and Communications Programme aim to make contemporary art accessible to a wide range of audiences, and specifically to target new, under-represented audiences. The Interaction programme aims to engage children, young people and intergenerational groups in the broadest sense and extends this aim to specifically target rural and urban areas that have limited access to the visual arts in Cornwall.
Our organisational partners include Newlyn Art Gallery, Tate St Ives and University College Falmouth, all of which are represented on the Board of Trustees.
ProjectBase currently has four full time staff and, up to August 2007, has engaged five volunteer interns. The organisation is regularly funded by Arts Council England South West and receives approximately £38,000 per year. Due to the organisation being project-led and funds being raised for specific projects, the annual turnover fluctuates. The annual turnover for 2006 / 07 are £143,092.54.
In the past twelve months the organisation has received support from Awards for All, Cornwall County Council, Embassy of Denmark, The Henry Moore Foundation and Penwith District Council. In addition the Interaction Programme has received support from Trinity Arts Award Access, Creative Partnerships, Creative Skills, engage, The Prince of Wales Trusts (Arts and Kids START) and The Services for Children Young People and Families.
ProjectBase is a registered Arts Award centre and in July 2007 supported six young people in receiving the organisation’s first Arts Awards at silver level. The organisation is currently piloting projects that support other Arts Award centres in the region.
In early 2007 the organisation received a Drawing Inspiration Award for the Big Draw Project undertaken in autumn 2006.

Website: ProjectBase

The situation

ProjectBase’s remit is a visual arts commissioning organisation for Cornwall. Historically, the organisation has worked primarily in the Penwith district of the county and worked in partnership with Tate St Ives and Newlyn Art Gallery to host art exhibitions.
Over the last eighteen months the organisation has developed and sustained a rolling Interaction Programme to support the development of new partnerships across the county and involve new audiences in our commissions and projects, including exhibitions led by our organisational partners. This is the first time the organisation has developed its own programme of learning and inclusion. In previous years different education teams at partner galleries have coordinated this work independently. By embedding a learning and inclusion programme at the heart of the organisation we have been able to involve audiences in the whole commissioning process and the continual development of a dialogue with artists rather than solely in the presentation of the final artworks during exhibition. The Interaction Programme has enabled the organisation to identify new innovative ways of engaging audiences and in particular young people and youth support agencies, involving them in decision-making and development of commissions. We have previously recognised that involving them in these processes empowers and informs the young people, our organisation and organisational partners. The Art Ambassador pilot project that some participants of this project took part in marks the beginning of ProjectBase’s Interaction Programme and has largely informed its nature and ethos.
This Art Ambassador action research project aimed at engaging and supporting young people, from Camborne, in the process of action research and consultation relating to their experience of Cornwall as a venue for the visual arts and a location for international artists to respond to.
Tate St Ives was invited to work in partnership on this action research because the project planned to involve artworks in ProjectBase’s launch show social systems being presented at their venue. The partnership with the gallery aimed to make the experience for the young people welcoming and positive and in turn to share and support the continued development of their education programme and in particular Young Tate in St Ives. ProjectBase and Tate St Ives wanted to encourage an open dialogue with young people to inform the provision of visual arts in Cornwall and in particular within their organisations.
Cornwall Detached Youth Kerrier worked in partnership with ProjectBase previously in delivering the Art Ambassador action research pilot. The organisation have been keen to build on this partnership, continue to involve young people they work with in our programmes and find innovative ways to fulfil their organisation remit through partnership working. Cornwall Youth Service is currently undertaking an organisational review which is likely to create changes to how budgets are spent and how much contact time youth workers will have with young people.

The idea

The original idea for the research was to explore new and effective ways to give young people from Camborne a voice in the visual arts in Cornwall. This aimed to be achieved through: meeting with partner organisations; identifying young people to participate; developing relationships with partner organisations and young people; discussion with young people in order to develop a plan of actions; delivering this plan of actions in partnership with the young people; and by continually reviewing the program and listening to the young peoples views and implementing suggestions.
This original idea was predicted to provide ProjectBase and Tate St Ives with information to inform future programming, policy and strategy and in particular to inform the continuous development of the Art Ambassador scheme at ProjectBase, and Young Tate at Tate St Ives. The project creates an open dialogue with young people, involving them in the current situations of these organisations, listening to their ideas and observing their participation in order to recognise their response.
Some of the young people have previously participated in the Art Ambassador programme at ProjectBase with ten young people having made visits to Tate St Ives and Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden. This project aimed to extend the initial action research by supporting these young people to participate in open dialogue through practical workshops and informal discussion at the youth café and on the street, and through gallery visits to exhibitions and during change over of shows at Tate St Ives, and further gallery visits to Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange to see the ProjectBase launch show social systems.
The partnership with Cornwall Detached Youth Service in Kerrier provided opportunity to identify young people living in a recognised super output area.  The partnership also provided opportunity to gain insight into best practice and build on their experience of working with hard to reach young people in informal settings.
The intention was to continue a dialogue with these young people that would inform the organisation as well as continue to sustain an ongoing relationship that enables the young people to have a voice in visual arts provision in their county.

The project

Planning

Having previously recognised the value of involving young people in our programmes and planning ProjectBase were interested in continuing to explore youth led approaches to interacting with artworks, artists and arts organisations.
As the lead organisation, the Interaction Programmer at ProjectBase undertook the role of Project Manager and employed a Freelance Evaluation Coordinator to be involved from the planning stages of the project.
At this stage we recognised that we wanted to continue to engage and respond to young people already involved in our programmes and who we know have limited access to the visual arts in Cornwall. In particular we were interested in exploring ways we could work in partnership with organisations that support young people recognised as hard to reach in informal settings. For this reason we invited detached Youth Service Kerrier to take part in the project and building on existing links an initial meeting was planned.
Tate St Ives was invited to join the partnership as the partner venue and in order to increase their outreach and involve young people in the work of their organisation. The gallery also attended the initial planning meeting.
After all partners had agreed an interest in the project an initial planning meeting took place attended by representatives from all partner organisations. The meeting provided an introduction to the work of each partner organisation and their reasons for joining the project. It also allowed partners to identify the main aims of the project and confirm a plan of action. At this first meeting the following decisions and recommendations were made:
Recommendations
♣    The fourteen young people who participated in the Art Ambassador action research pilot Spring 06 would be invited to participate in this project before the opportunity is opened up to others.
♣    The Youth Service is best placed to identify any other young people who may want to participate because they know the young people well.
♣    For continuity of the project and the continuous professional development of all project staff it is important that there is one recognised lead contact from each partner organisation and the same youth worker that attends all project sessions.
♣    Project Facilitator to informally build relationships with participants through attending sessions on the street and in the youth café, joining in with other organised activities and facilitating more formalised sessions from time to time.
Plan of action
♣    Action research would take place during recognised youth work sessions in order to ensure some continuity and provide regular opportunity for contact with the young people
♣    Due to the nature of these sessions the average length is three hours. These will amount to ten full day sessions over several months.
♣    Project sessions to take place on the street, at the youth café and in the galleries.
♣    Youth Service to invite all young people who took part in initial action research pilot and to identify others who may be interested.
♣    Youth Service to commit to providing one youth worker to support all project sessions and review meetings.
♣    The Interaction Programmer at ProjectBase to continue to lead the project as Project Manager.
♣    Tate St Ives to provide some support to project delivery through a member of their education team.
♣    The Project Manager in collaboration with education staff at Tate St Ives to identify a project facilitator.
♣    All project staff to commit to attending regular review meetings to take place one third and two thirds of the way through the project and a final evaluation review meeting after the last project session. The purpose of these meetings would be to identify what has taken place, observations made and a plan of action in how to move forward or make relevant changes to any pre-planned activity.
♣    Content of the project sessions to be kept loose and aim to provide starting points for a variety of dialogues whilst allowing young people to lead the focus and direction of sessions.
♣    Young people to experience working directly with artworks in ProjectBase’s launch show social systems and in Tate St Ives show Everyone deserves and Ocean: A homage to Brian Wilson.
♣    Front of House staff to be briefed about the project before and after it takes place.
After this meeting and through further discussion with the project facilitator it was decided that beyond introducing the artists and researching the exhibition the outcomes of project sessions would not be defined. Instead they would be left open to take shape through decisions made by the young people. In this way the project would be planned as it developed.
In these early sessions and through out the project the young people would be encouraged to play an active role in recording their responses, ideas and thoughts through a variety of means including an anonymous project log book, individual disposable cameras, visual questionnaires and interviews coordinated by the evaluation coordinator.

Delivery

As planned the project ran over several months from 19th April to 27th July. Initially the Project Facilitator attended two Youth Service sessions a week, one at the youth café and one on the street, recognising that different young people attended each session. As the project progressed, this changed to attending only the youth café session each week. All sessions were three hours long taking place in the evening. In addition to these sessions three visits were made to Tate St Ives, one to Newlyn Art Gallery and one to The Exchange.
The action research was initiated by visual images and examples of artworks by social systems artists and artist collectives to create an open dialogue.
The gallery visits provided stimulus for dialogue and opportunity to experience art galleries and art works in situ. Participants and project staff used photography, audio recordings, text and visual work to document these processes. Throughout, this material was used as a point of reference for change or addition of thoughts, ideas and experience.
At times attendance was affected by the nature of the Youth Service working with young people on a ‘ in’ and informal basis. It has been noticed that attendance is always affected by holiday breaks. The research has embraced working with young people in an informal capacity and not as a closed and identifiable group. It has proven impossible to work with exactly the same group of young people on more than one occasion meaning that activities have to consider the ever changing dynamics of the working group.

Outcomes

Impact on participants

Changes in behaviour include:
♣    Visiting galleries and going to new places – The majority of the group have stated that they would like to make return visits to galleries.
♣    Increased participation and involvement from the majority of young people.
♣    Increase in confidence and happiness of young people – Over the duration of the project all staff have noticed an increase in participants confidence whilst in gallery spaces. Changes in behaviour are noticed in the frequency of approaching gallery invigilators, awareness of gallery layout and independent exploration of exhibitions.
Changes in attitude include:
♣    New and further interests in visiting galleries and working with arts organisations – The majority of participants have stated that they would like to continue to collaborate with ProjectBase and partner galleries in the future. One participant has shown strong interest in becoming a volunteer at The Exchange and is keen to gain experience of setting up shows.
Development of skills, knowledge and experience include:
♣    Increased understanding of the visual arts – The young people discussed, responded and contributed to artwork of international significance and gained insight into the processes of hanging exhibitions whilst the gallery was closed to the public.
♣    Using new processes and methods – The young people have participated in new ways of working.
♣    Undertaking new experiences – Some participants have visited art galleries for the first time and many have met international artists.
♣    Exposure to new ways of working, thinking and learning – Participants have compared and contrasted the work of different artists and the use of different gallery spaces.
♣    Skill and ability in communication between young people – Participants have used experiences in the project to formulate opinions that they have shared with each other and project staff.

Impact on others involved

Detached Youth Service Kerrier (Partner):
♣    Recognise the benefits of working with the visual arts to contribute effectively to their existing remit – The organisation has stated that they would like to continue working in partnership with ProjectBase to use action research and the visual arts as a tool in meeting their own agenda.
♣    Recognise the flexibility that non-venue based arts organisations like ProjectBase can offer – ProjectBase have been able to work around the unsocial hours of youth workers, staff capacity and have built transport costs into project budgets.
♣    Recognise the value of working with arts organisations before visiting galleries - In particular this is felt to have engaged young people who would otherwise not participate and has provided greater context for gallery visits.
♣    Recognise continuing professional development of their own staff in providing one staff member to support all project sessions rather than a variety of different staff members. The continuity of experience for one person provides a greater understanding of the project methodology, aims, objectives, outcomes and impact, and greater support to participants – In particular the youth workers who supported the project have stated that they have ‘never experienced anything like this (art galleries) before’ and had ‘never realised what galleries could offer to young people, and would not have discovered this without this action research’.
Tate St Ives The (Partner):
♣    Working in partnership with a variety of agencies has enabled the gallery to increase its outreach and work with communities it would otherwise be unable to due to geographic location.
♣    Pooling resources and experience in a multi-partnership approach has enabled the gallery to exceed existing capacity.
ProjectBase (Project Manager, Evaluation Coordinator, Interaction Facilitator)
♣    Recognise the need for flexibility in informal settings and for finding ways to document and recognise informal discussions relevant to the action research that we would otherwise be unaware of.
♣    Recognise the value of working with hard to reach young people before visiting galleries - In particular this is felt to have strengthened the context for any gallery visits and engaged young people who would otherwise not participate.
♣    Recognise the enthusiasm of working with young people in informal settings – In particularly in settings where participants can come and go at any time.
♣    Recognise the success of youth workers and the Youth Service in enabling young people to be decision makers.

Institutional change

The Youth Service concludes the impact of the action research project to be positive for participants and staff have expressed desire to work further with these methods and with ProjectBase. The organisation has invited the Freelance Interaction Facilitator from ProjectBase to undertake detached youth worker training in order to work closely with them in the future.
♣    ProjectBase will use information from the project to become more inclusive to hard to reach individuals, particularly through recognising and implementing best practise in informal settings. The organisation plans to build an extended partnership with detached Youth services into its forward plan and to find ways to work with this group of young people in the near future.
♣    Tate St Ives and ProjectBase shared the process and findings of the action research with front of house staff and will use this information to contribute to the development of Young Tate at Tate St Ives.

Lessons learned

What worked and what didn’t

What worked?
♣    Providing opportunity for young people to meet international artists - This increased participants’ confidence in making artwork and of understanding contemporary art.
♣    Researching artists and artworks before visiting galleries – This process created a sense of expectation and anticipation in participants. This research also provided a strong foundation to build the rest of the project on and engaged young people who may otherwise have not participated.
♣    Working within existing youth service sessions - This provided some continuity to young people attending sessions and allowed them to participate in the project informally.
♣    Taking the young people to Tate St Ives whilst the gallery was closed to the public and during the hanging of exhibitions – This enabled the young people to feel ‘special’ and valued.
♣    Harnessing the knowledge and skills of staff at Tate St Ives – In particular participants engaged greatly with a member of the education team who provided gallery tours on two occasions accessing all areas of the gallery building and animating the artworks and spaces with stories that provided social contexts for the work..
♣    Providing a mixture of formal and informal contact with the Project Facilitator – The informal contact enabled participants to interact with project staff in many ways and build a sense of trust in the group. The formal contact, taking the form of practical workshop activity enabled greater conversation and discussion to take place.
Particularly successful sessions included:
♣    Using disposable cameras to record the second visit to Tate St Ives – Participants engaged well in documenting their visit and showed enthusiasm in taking and receiving their developed photos. The photographs also provided stimulus for further discussion about artworks and galleries.
♣    Formalised sessions at the youth café - The facilitator provided two formalised mixed media practical workshops following interest expressed by some young people. The themes for these activities were developed with the young people and in response to ideas discussed during gallery visits.
What didn’t work?
♣    The shifting population of the youth group presented challenges that a regular group would not – The nature of working with the Youth Service meant that the participants were never the exact same young people from session to session making continuity of thoughts, ideas and dialogue challenging. For this reason it is essential for the Project Facilitator to be flexible, approachable and open at all times.
♣    Facilitating practical workshops during youth café evenings – This decision worked well in some instances but it is noted that these sessions did not best support the formalised practical workshops. During these activities at the youth café participants were observed to have high energy levels, often moving from one activity to another, and wanting to participate in everything the Youth Service could offer in one evening. It is suggested that if the project had a longer time frame practical sessions could be run in the space on evenings when the café is not open to anyone.
♣    The timing of the project coinciding with a Youth service trip to France – All of the project participants took part in a week long trip, two weeks before the end of the action research and just before the final gallery visit. This created a break in the regular contact the facilitator had with participants and all project staff observed the break to create a drop in attendance in the last week. Youth Service staff often recognises this to happen often in these circumstances.

Next steps

ProjectBase will use information from the project to become more inclusive to hard to reach individuals in informal settings and in particular to develop our Art Ambassador scheme. We will continue to develop the partnership with Cornwall Youth Service in order to inform best practice, identify hard to reach young people in Cornwall and broker existing and new partnerships with communities in Cornwall.
This research has enabled us to build on a partnership initiated over twelve months ago and continue to discover more about how the partnership can create a sustainable Art Ambassador programme at Park an Tansys.
All project partners will share the findings of the project with staff at their organisations and others involved in decision making to inform strategy and organisational policy. ProjectBase will use the project as a case study disseminating the research to arts and education organisations in the region.

Appendix

Appendix 1 –  Partnership Agreement
This agreement applies to the organisations and project partnership as identified below.

LEAD ORGANISATION:         ProjectBase Cornwall Ltd.
Main contact:                Georgina Kennedy, Interaction Programme    
    
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PARTNER ORGANISATION:        Tate St Ives
Main Contact:            Susan Lamb, Head of Education and Public Programmes
                Dave Davies, Education Support

PARTNER ORGANISATION:        The Detached Youth Service
            
Main Contact:                Alex Waite, Senior Youth Worker
                Heather Lowry, Youth worker
_______________________________________________________________

PROJECT TITLE:                Art Ambassadors – ProjectBase and Tate St Ives    
    
PROJECT START DATE:          1 February 2007    

PROJECT END DATE:            31 July 2007

DATE OF ISSUE:            30 April 2007
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1.    Project
The project is an Art Ambassador project at ProjectBase in partnership with Cornwall Youth Service and Tate St Ives, with support from en-vision and engage. The project aims to fulfil the objectives of all partners as outlined in the project brief. The project extends its aim to develop sustainable relationships between participants and partner organisations.

2.    Partnership - ProjectBase
ProjectBase will lead the partnership and manage the project through: coordinating project sessions; coordinating and managing evaluation and review; managing budgets and finance; and supporting communications between partners. ProjectBase will contract a freelance Project Facilitator and Evaluation Coordinator.

3.    Partnership – The Tate St Ives
Tate St Ives is project partner and will support the project by providing: access to galleries and exhibition; a cash contribution of £1000; education staff time as support in kind. Tate St Ives commits to supporting evaluation and review processes, contributing to the planning of the project and attending review meetings.

4.    Partnership – Cornwall Detached Youth Service
The Detached Youth Service are project partners and will support the project by providing a staff member to support the young people during project sessions and attend review meetings on behalf of Cornwall detached Youth Service as support in kind. The Youth service commit to supporting evaluation and review processes, contributing to the planning of the project, attending review meetings and are responsible for identifying the young people who will participate in the project.

5. Financial Commitments
Income

engage – envision
2500
Tate St Ives
1000
TOTAL
3500


Support in Kind
Cash Equivalent
Cornwall Youth Service Staff Time (based on 12 days at £25,000 pro rata)
1150
Tate Education Officer Time (based on 12 days at £20,000 pro rata)
950
ProjectBase International Artist's Time (based on 2 artists for 2 days at £300 a day)
1200
ProjectBase Interaction Programmer Time (based on 12 days at £20,000 pro rata)
950
TOTAL equivalent to
3300

6.    Documentation
ProjectBase may record student participation in the project by taking photographs and film of activity. Written permissions will be sought before any photographs or films are taken. ProjectBase, the partners and the project funders (engage and envision) may use these photographs to support evaluation, and in promotional materials which can include websites, printed material and advertising.


Partnership agreement signed by all partners.


Appendix 2 – Evaluation Plan
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Revised February 2007


Aim

The aim is to give young people from Camborne a voice in the visual arts in Cornwall.

Objectives

By building on existing links with the detached youth group in Camborne and meeting with all partner organisations.

          By discussion with this group and agreeing on a program of activities.

By delivering this plan of activities in partnership with the young people.

By continually and actively reviewing the program and listening to the young peoples views and implementing suggestions.










INDICATORS

PROPOSED METHOD OF  COLLECTING DATA
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR COLLECTING DATA
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANALYSISING THE COLLECTED DATA

Prior to Project Sessions
Staff have all met

Minutes of initial staff meeting to be made including info on who is in attendance (Initial meeting with staff from ProjectBase, Youth Service, Tate education officer and the project facilitator (Tate freelancer))
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator

Staff and young people have met

Minutes of meeting to be made including info on who is in attendance (The identified group of young people have an initial meeting with the staff they will work with on the project)
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator
During Project Sessions
Initial audit of current experience and young people’s knowledge of who is involved and what they do
A questionnaire, probably a visual one, is used to gather information about participants and staffs understanding of the roles of the different partner organisations
Project Coordinator and Facilitator
Discussion between young people, facilitator, coordinator and all support staff

Young people understand aims and objectives of project
The young people can answer questions about what we are doing
Facilitator
Facilitator, young people and all support staff
Session plan is developed in conjunction with the young people and staff

Agreement is reached for the project activities which encapsulates all the requirements of the partners and which the young people are happy to take part in
Facilitator
Facilitator, young people and all support staff

Sessions are carried out and young people attend sessions

Register (in the form of pre-printed lists of all staff and participants who could be there so that names can just be ticked off) and including record of time/date/location of session, aims and objectives for session

Staff project diary – giving an overview of what happened during the session

Register – Facilitator






Staff Project Diary – all staff present during all or part of a session
All project staff

Level of engagement and participation in project sessions, decision making and contributing to sessions
Evaluation method to be decided by young people

Young people and staff
Young people and staff

Post project sessions
End of project audit of young people’s experiences, including changes in confidence and understanding of project partners roles
Repeat of initial questionnaire at the end of the project
Project Coordinator and Facilitator
Young people, facilitator and coordinator and all support staff

Young people make suggestions about ways to improve the experiences they have in galleries and of arts organisations based on their involvement and experiences through the project
Method to be decided by young people during project
Young people and Facilitator
Young people, gallery education staff, facilitator, coordinator and support staff

Changes are implemented based on young people’s suggestions
To be recorded in written document, photos and / or power point presentation and shared with all participants and project staff
Gallery education staff
Young people





Appendix 4 – Summary of Visual Questionnaires
two young people completed questionnaires at the beginning of the project. Responses were thoughtful and showed an understanding of Tate St Ives and Youth Service as well as the Interaction Programme at ProjectBase. Responses to ‘engage’ seem to be based on the name and guess work!

Three young people completed questionnaires at the end of the project. One young person made full and thoughtful responses similarl to the first two showing an understanding of all the organisations. One response to the engage logo stated ‘connect with the art and look and listen’. The other two young people responded to the logos themselves and gave very similar responses.

Appendix 5 – Summary of envision questionnaires (completed on session 10)
These questionnaires were completed on the final project session during a visit to the galleries. Three young people completed the questionnaires and one support worker completed a questionnaire.

Q. 1 ABOUT THE GALLERY
Have you been to Tate St Ives before?
NO                     0
NOT SURE              0
YES                    3
NO ANSWER            1

Who with?
WITH PARENTS OR FAMILY    1
WITH A YOUTH GROUP    4
WITH FRIENDS            1

Tick three words that best describe this place
BORING                2
EXCITING                0
COMFORTABLE            0
SCARY                0
FRIENDLY                0
WELCOMING            1
UNFRIENDLY            0    
POINTLESS            2
FUN                    0
NOT FOR ME             2
DULL                    2
INTERESTING            2
CONFUSING            0
POSH                    0
COMPLICATED            1
ADD YOUR OWN WORD:
CARDBOARD            1

Q. 2 ABOUT THE PROJECT
What did you do in the project?
‘Walk around’
‘Looked at artwork’
‘Looked at some of the artwork’
‘Contributed to passing and sharing reviews and art sessions and communication between young people’

What about the art project…
HOW GOOD WERE THE ARTISTS?
Not at all            0
Not very            1
OK                1
Fairly                0
Very                1
No response        1handwritten comment ‘difficult to answer!’

HOW INTERESTING WAS THE ART WORK?
Not at all            0
Not very            1
OK                1
Fairly                1
Very                0
No response        1

HOW UNUSUAL WAS IT TO YOU?
Not at all            0
Not very            0        
OK                1
Fairly                1
Very                2

HOW INVOLVED DID YOU GET?
Not at all            2
Not very            0
OK                1
Fairly                0
Very                0
No response        1

HOW SPECIAL WAS BEING INVOLVED?
Not at all            2
Not very            1
OK                0
Fairly                0
Very                0
No response        1

What was the best thing about the project?
‘Dunno’
‘Some of the pictures’
‘Dunno’
‘With the Tate visit it was the special way we had the special opening ‘evening’-by turn out-made fun and interesting very good that Lucy and Dodie got so involved with group through the visits to the youth café and estate.’

What was the worst thing about the project?
‘Couldn’t understand the artist’
‘Some of the art’
‘Cardboard boxes’

What could we do better next time?
‘Less walking’
‘Buy us food’
‘Not boxes’
‘Would have been good to have more time and money to continue project and interest of young people.’

Q.3 ABOUT YOU
Has the project made you feel differently about anything?
NO                    2
NOT SURE                 1
YES                    1
If yes what?
‘A very different understanding of the word gallery and what art can be exhibited’

How much did you learn about…
COMMUNICATION
Not at all            1
Not very            1
OK                1
Fairly                0
Very                0
No response        1

WORKING WITH OTHERS
Not at all            2
Not very            0
OK                1
Fairly                0
Very                1

BEING RELIABLE
Not at all            0
Not very            0
OK                2
Fairly                0
Very                2

USING COMPUTERS
Not at all            3
Not very            1
OK                0
Fairly                0
Very                0

BEING CREATIVE        
Not at all            2        
Not very            0
OK                1
Fairly                0
Very                1

LEADERSHIP
Not at all            2
Not very            1
OK                0
Fairly                0
Very                1

After the project how confident are you about…
TALKING ABOUT IDEAS
Less                0
The same as before    2
More                2

SHARING YOUR OPINIONS
Less                0
The same as before    2
More                2

CONTEMPORARY ART
Less                0
The same as before    3
More                1

THINKING OF NEW IDEAS
Less                0
The same as before    2
More                2

BEING CREATIVE
Less                0
The same as before    2
More                2

VISITING NEW PLACES
Less                0
The same as before    2
More                2

What would you do differently next time?
‘Bring more food and money’ ‘bring money’ (x2)
‘Think the whole project has been very informative and enjoying with a lot of participation from YP attending gallery trips – or artists’ workshops’

Will you come to Tate St Ives again?
YES                    2
MAYBE                1
NO                    1

Will you go to other art galleries or projects?
YES                    2
MAYBE                1
NO                    1

Appendix 8 – People involved in the project
♣    Project Manager - Georgina Kennedy, Interaction Programmer, ProjectBase
♣    Evaluation Coordinator – Dodie Bridges, Freelance Interaction Facilitator, ProjectBase
♣    Project Facilitator – Lucy Willow, Freelance Interaction Facilitator, ProjectBase
♣    Lead Support Staff – Heather Lowry, Youth Worker, Cornwall Youth Service
♣    Other Support Staff - Alex Waite, Sue Davies, Youth Workers, Cornwall Youth Service
♣    Main venue partner contact – Dave Davies, Education Facilitator, Tate St Ives
Appendix 9 – Funders
♣    Main Funder: envision - engage’s pioneering programme supporting galleries to develop innovative ways of working together with young people aged 14-21, supporting organisations and young people, to share ideas, expertise, resources, and create opportunities for young people to have a genuine role in shaping gallery practice.
♣    Partner Match Funding: Tate St Ives – The gallery presents modern and contemporary art in the costal setting of St Ives. The gallery is one of four Tate sites working in a national and international arena.

7    Statistical information for envision’s Grants for the Arts Activity Report
7.1    Where did your project take place?
Did your activity happen in a specific place (or places)?
a)     Your activity took place in a specific place
If your activity happened in a particular place, please give us the address and postcode of where most of your activity took place.  
Full address
Camborne Youth Café
The Old Magistrates Hall
Adelaide Street
Camborne
Cornwall

Full postcode
T
R
1
4

8
H
H


If the place where your activity happened does not have an address (for example, it was in a park), please tell us where it took place and give us the name of the local authority area instead.
 

Other places where your activity happened
If your activity happened in other places, please give us the postcodes of each place.  If any of the places do not have a postcode, please give us the name of the local authority area instead. We have made space for you to give details of up to five other places.  Please use a separate sheet if you need more and write ‘See attachment’ on the first line below.

Full postcode or local authority area: TR26 1TG
Full postcode or local authority area: TR14
Full postcode or local authority area: TR18 2NL
Full postcode or local authority area: TR18 5PZ
Full postcode or local authority area:

If you have filled in part a, go to question 3. If part a is not relevant to your activity, please fill in part b.

    b    Your activity was not specific to a place
If your activity was not specific to a place, please give details. (For example, ‘This activity happened across a wide area or across a region’, ‘This activity took place on the internet’ or ‘We produced a publication’.)



7.2        How many people do you estimate benefited from the activity?
Please give an estimate for your activity.

‘Taking part’ means doing the activity. ‘Audience’ includes people going to an exhibition or performance, and people getting access to work that is printed, recorded, broadcast or on the internet.

This activity    Number


Artists
2


Others taking part
18


Audience
10

7.3        What are the age ranges of the people who benefited from your activity? Mark all relevant boxes.



 All age ranges



 Children under five



 Children (five to 11)


9
 Young people (12 to 15)


7
 Young people (16 to 19)


2
 Young people (20 to 24)


6
 Adults (25 to 64)



 Adults (65 and over)

7.4    Was your activity directed at, or particularly relevant to, any of the following groups of people? Please mark any relevant boxes.



 Disabled people


x
 People at risk of ‘social exclusion’ (not being able to take part fully in society because of, for example, poverty, prejudice or isolation)




 Asian or Asian British





 Black or Black British (includes African, Caribbean)



 Chinese



 Any other ethnic group




7.5    Please give details of the results of your activity.

This activity    Number


Number of performance or exhibition days
3
Number of new products or commissions*

Period of employment for artists (in days)
10
Number of sessions for education, training or taking part. doing the activity (Divide the day into three
20
Number of performance or exhibition days
5
Number of new products or commissions*