Why get involved?
Arts & Business North Awards celebrate and showcase the best examples of cultural partnerships and sponsorships across the North of England. For the first time our awards will showcase partnerships from all three Northern regions; Yorkshire and the Humber, the North East and North West. The awards are open to any business that has partnered with a cultural organisation to achieve marketing, branding, PR, CSR and professional development objectives.
An independent panel will judge nominations based on the level of excellence in achieving the commercial goals of the business, through the arts engagement, as well as achieving the strategic and creative goals of the arts organisation.
The closing date will be Friday 15 January 2010 and the shortlist will be announced soon after.
Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Tuesday 23 March 2010 in Leeds hosted by Arts & Business Yorkshire. Venue to be confirmed.
Karen Babayan (UK) and Roee Destin (Israel) making their collaborative work as part of the Identity Cards residency project at The Art House, Wakefield.
David Burgess won the 2007 Arts & Business Yorkshire Board Member of the Year award for his work with The Art House.
Photo courtesy: The Art House
Categories
The Arts & Business Awards comprise five award categories embracing the innovation and variety of arts-business projects throughout the region.
Arts & Business Community Award
Awarded to a partnership that has encouraged specific community engagement with the arts or has made a significant contribution to regeneration or sustainable growth. The winning business will have helped deliver a committed and innovative arts programme resulting in tangible benefits to a distinct community.
Arts & Business Cultural Branding Award
Awarded to a partnership that reinforces the branding and marketing activity of a business through the use of culture. The winning business will demonstrate an integral connection with culture that has increased brand equity and therefore business performance. The winning partnership will demonstrate quantifiable outcomes and measurable impact.
Arts & Business Sustained Partnership Award
The winning business will have been involved with its arts partner for a minimum of 3 years and will have demonstrated how the partnership has developed over time to the mutual benefit of both partners. We are looking for partnerships that have shown commitment and development but also where there is strong potential for the business to continue to work with its current arts partner or the wider arts community.
Arts & Business People Development Award
Awarded to a partnership that embeds culture as a core element of employee development. The winning business will demonstrate significant business improvement through skills enhancement and innovation building.
Arts & Business Board Member of the Year
Arts & Business wants to celebrate those people who have added outstanding benefit to an arts organisation by giving their time, skills, knowledge, inspiration and strategic direction in a governance role. The A&B Board Member of the Year Award is open to any business individual who has volunteered their time in a governance position for an arts organisation or museum in the UK. The arrangement may be through a formal voluntary placement such as through the Arts & Business Board Bank Programme.
Downloads
North Awards 2009/10 - how to enter (pdf)
North Awards 2009/10 - nomination form (word)
North Board Member of the Year - how to enter (pdf)
North Board Member of the Year - nomination form (word)
For further details please contact Debra.Varley@artsandbusiness.org.uk or call 01422 367860.