In this blog, we’ve rounded up the many resources Unlimited has created for artists, cultural workers, creatives and producers… Find below resources in the following sections: Marketing, Access, Funding, Professional development and Working internationally.

Marketing

• A guide to accessible marketing – This guide, made in collaboration with the Arts Marketing Association, was designed to make your communications matter.
• A guide to social media for creatives – This resource was made following an event hosted by Sarah Pickthall working with young creatives on how to best use social media.
• Unlimited’s PR & Marketing Resource for Creatives – In addition to the resource on Social Media, this resource was created by the Unlimited Marketing Team to help creatives market their work and connect to a wider audience.
• Top tips for Accessible Marketing – Keep your marketing materials accessible with these top-line essentials

Access

• Cards for Inclusion – change the way you think about disability, access and the arts with this card game
• Access: Staff with autoimmune conditions helps organisations and employers create best practice around supporting employees.
• Access: Flexible working opens up conversations and knowledge around creating an inclusive work environment for those who require rest periods.
• Access: Disability Confident etiquette is an important aspect to working in an inclusive environment. If you aren’t feeling confident about the language you use, our blog is here to help.
• Access: Is disability a dirty word also helps with language and labels around disability
• Access: Audio Description – Fiona Slater reflected of a conference she attended in 2016 and shares knowledge with the industry.
• What is the Social Model of Disability? – Our short blog explains how the Social Model works.
• Animating The Social Model of Disability is a 90 second animation for people who are new to ‘The Social Model of Disability’ and can be used internationally for organisations, employers, funding organisations and the general public.
• Demystifying Access: a resource pack for the performing arts is a resource pack for peers, performance makers and producers in the small to mid-scale. And why not take a look at a blog on how to support people with invisible needs too.
• Accessing Access to Work helps you with the UK government scheme which provides support you, your colleagues and/or employees might benefit from
• Creating accessible events for visually impaired people – Top tips for making your event more inclusive for visually impaired people
• Ten top tips for running accessible events – Our Senior Producer Jo Verrent talks through her top ten tips for running an accessible event.
• Top Ten Tips for Accessible Recruitment – In this blog we look at the way we keep our recruitment process as accessible as possible.
• Eleven Top Tips for Accessible Commissioning – This blog post looks at how we make sure our commissioning process is as accessible as possible.
• Unlimited’s Guide to Signing PDFs – This resource has a step-by-step guide to signing PDFs, for both PC and Mac users.

Funding

• Funding advice for artists: Budgets is aimed at helping those who find writing a budget daunting.
• The Basics: Contracts and Finances – In the first of a two part series, Fiona Slater explained the basics of contracts and finances
• The Basics: Invoicing – The second part of the series covers invoicing, something that may not be very exciting but is something that’s indispensable.
• Funding advice for artists: Sharing a vision – Clara Giraud created a series of three blogs, the first blog focuses on her top tips on crafting a successful arts funding application.
• Funding advice for artists: Ambition vs Realism – The second blog in the three part series focuses on how to demonstrate ambition while pitching manageable projects.
• Funding advice for artists: Being the right match – In the third and final blog from the series, Clara Giraud talks about ‘matching up’ with what funders are looking for.

Professional development

• Benefits of a support network – Clara Giraud posted a great resource about how artistic pairing can be extremely beneficial to artists creating new work
• Five lessons on cultural leadership – Jo Verrent shared 5 lessons she learnt in relation to cultural leadership and then how she applies them now

Working internationally

We’ve a whole series of case studies on different aspects of our international work, all designed to help people take away ideas and transplant them elsewhere – and all in standard text and Easy Read.

• Cards for Inclusion – change the way you think about disability, access and the arts with this card game
• Animating The Social Model of Disability is a 90 second animation for people who are new to ‘The Social Model of Disability’ and can be used internationally for organisations, employers, funding organisations and the general public.
• Kaite O’Reilly – And Suddenly I Disappear: The Singapore ‘d’ Monologues by Maiya Murphy
• VIVA Carnival Club – Alegria Samba School by Lucinda Elkins
• Unfixed (Art and Technology) by Sarah Pickthall
• International Placements by Simon Overington-Hickford
• Nama Ato: Japanese Outsider Art by Sarah Pickthall
• Access to the world: Unlimited International Travel by Simon Startin
• Unlimited International Collaborations by Sarah Pickthall
• Unlimited at IETM by Simon Overington-Hickford

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