Culture Change

Imagining the possibilities and making them happen

Join Mission Models Money, the Culture Leadership Programme and your peers to share new ways of thinking and new ways of doing which will help you think about how you might renew your mission, reconfigure your business model and revise your approach to money.

Conference Programme (almost there)

09.00 Breakfast Launch of MMM report ‘Capital Matters’ and new arts dedicated crowdfunding platform ‘Wedidthis’ hosted by The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

10.00 Keynote: Ed Vaizey MP Minister for Culture, Communications and the Creative Industries (introduced by David Kershaw Chair of Cultural Leadership Programme)

11.00 The Opportunities of Crisis

• Alan Davey, CEO Arts Council England
• David Hall, CEO The Foyle Foundation and MMM Director 
• Cat Harrison, performer, producer, advisor, non zero one
• David Lan, Artistic Director, Young Vic
• Chair: Fiona Ellis, Chair MMM Capital Matters Task Force and previously CEO of The Northern Rock Foundation 

12.15 Lunch

13.30 Shooting the rapids (in small groups)

Six facilitated open space/unconference style gatherings with two on each of the three themes of the conference: Renew Mission, Reconfigure Business Models, Revise Approach to Money. 

Each gathering has one facilitator and x2 or x3 ‘pollinators’ of the conversation who will be participants from MMM’s and CLP’s programmes. 

Renew Mission

Facilitators: Charlotte Jones (ITC and ERA21), and Maurice Davies (MA and ERA21)

‘Pollinators’ Tony Butler (MEAL and MMM Capital Matters case study), Gwilym Gibbons (Shetland Arts and MMM Capital Matters case study), Maria Bota, (Salisbury Festival and MMM Capital Matters Case Study), David Brownlee (Audiences UK and ERA21) Clive Gillman (DCA and MMM (re)evolver network member, Laura Sillars (FACT)

Reconfigure Business Models

Facilitators: Mark Robinson, (his own Thinking Practice and MMM Associate), Holly Tebbutt, (her own practice and Researcher on MMM Capital Matters), confirmed

‘pollinators’ Declan Baharini, (NewcastleGateshead Cultural Venues MMM Collaborative Working pilot), Dave Moutrey (Cornerhouse),  Hannah Rudman (MMM Associate),  Sian Prime (Institute for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship) Sarah Pickthall (Cusp inc), Morag Arnot (Creative Scotland)

Revise Approach to Money 

Facilitators: Susan Royce (Independent Consultant) and Claire Antrobus (her own practice and Researcher on MMM Capital Matters),

Pollinators: Sarah Preece, Battersea Arts Centre (MMM Capital Matters case study), Julia Twomlow (Leach Pottery and MMM Capital Matters case study), Jim Beirne, (Live Theatre and MMM Capital Matters Case Study) Keith Jeffrey, (Derby QUAD) Rachel Arnold, (Impact Arts), Ed Whiting, (wedidthis)

Each group to hear short 5 minute case stories from the pollinators which illustrate real on the front line change in ways of thinking and ways of doing that is already happening

Each group to then consider the following question: 

How can capacity in their theme (renew mission, reconfigure business model, revise approach to money) be further accelerated in order to help creative practitioners and organisations survive and thrive in the turbulence ahead? 

Ideas are collected at the end and shared in Plenary Space curated under the 3 Themes

15.00 Tea break

15:30 Possible Futures (plenary)

• Shelagh Wright, Demos Associate (Renew Mission)
• Joe Ludlow, Fellow, Clore Social Leadership Programme and co-author of MMM Capital Matters report (Reconfigure Business Model)
• Andrew Barnett, Director, The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch (Revise approach to Money)
• Chair: Virginia Tandy OBE, Director of Culture for Manchester City Council

16.45 Wrap Up

• Hilary Carty, Director, Cultural Leadership Programme
• Clare Cooper, Co-Founder and Co-Director MMM

Target participants

Leaders in mid sized organisations in the not for profit arts and cultural sector in the UK. Medium sized organisations form the largest group of the professional not for profit arts and cultural ecology, and are responsible for producing and/or promoting most of our professional cultural and creative activity. However, they are the most ‘at risk’ group in the current climate of austerity because they are often the least organisationally and financially resilient. Because of their output and the numbers of people they employ and engage with as participants, audience members, volunteers and supporters, prioritising the organisational and financial resilience of this group will reap rich rewards for our society as well as our economy. 

Aims of the conference

1. To share the findings of MMM’s 4th cycle of work in ways that are immediately and practically useful to participants 
2. To create a platform for the findings of MMM’s 4th cycle of work to be shared, debated and mainstreamed through the critical reflections and involvement of leaders from mid-sized organisations in the professional not for profit arts and cultural sector. 
3. To offer an opportunity to engage directly with MMM’s key target group – professional not for profit arts and cultural organisations and their leaders, especially those who work in mid-sized organizations in order to share and explore key perspectives and tools which are aimed at helping individual leaders and their organisations shift mindsets, evolve working practices and build resilience, lead their organisations and projects through changing and increasingly turbulent times and strengthen their peer support networks   
4. To celebrate the achievements of all who participated in MMM’s 4th cycle of work and enabled it to happen
5. To generate interest and awareness in MMM’s proposition for a 5th cycle of work (re)evolution and (re)think and help ascertain the interest and demand for these plans. 
6. To offer an opportunity to the Minister to learn from and engage directly with a key target group in his portfolio
7. To offer the opportunity for MMM to formally launch ‘Capital Matters’ and offer one of a series of launch pads for ‘Wedidthis’, the UK’s first arts dedicated crowd funding platform which MMM has been incubating.