

Unlimited Senior Producer Jo Verrent speaking at 'History & Context of Disability Arts in the UK' talk at Southbank Centre's Unlimited Festival 2016 Photo by Rachel Cherry
Find the resource for you
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.
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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