Friday Selection Box: 28th June 2024

Research findings on how different social groups are affected by the environmental crises

New research from NPC on how different social groups are affected by the environmental crisis.

Our Baillie Gifford boycotts aren’t about tearing down the arts – they’re about building them up

Interesting piece on the complexities and issues of sponsorship.

Thinking about ‘broken’ business models differently

Your business model, your theory of the business, is not a rigid, rules-based thing that can be “broken.” It’s a shared way of making sense and taking action. It’s collaborative choreography with a moving world, so stay light on your feet.

Arts Hustings

In case you missed it, here’s the Arts Hustings 2024 with What Next? And the Campaign for the Arts.

UK general election: the dawn of a new era?

Covers a few bright spots but it does highlight the very real challenges everyone has been grappling with. Good feature on The Lightbox, Woking and the impact of Section 114 notices in local authorities, a topic very close to Dawn’s heart as a Woking resident!

The Camera Never Lies: Challenging images through The Incite Project

Featuring more than 100 works by legendary photographers including Don McCullin (b.1935), Stuart Franklin (b.1956), Robert Capa (1913-1954) and Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), as well as modern practitioners, this extensive exhibition charts a global century of iconic documentation and manipulation.

Questions, questions…

How might we work with business models more imaginatively?

How can we encourage good finance people (staff and trustees) to join and stay in the sector, because we need them?

How do we plan when planning is (still) hard?