About Art UK
Art UK is an art education charity and the online home for every public collection of art in the United Kingdom. It is making the UK's national collection of art accessible to everyone online - for enjoyment, learning and research. Art UK brings together art from almost 3,500 British institutions in one of the UK's largest ever arts partnerships and showcases this art to a global audience of 5.5m users per year. Approaching 60% of this audience is overseas.
Art UK provides significant support to museums and galleries in the UK, by providing them with a shared digital platform to showcase their art collections, reach new audiences, and generate income. Most of these collections would not be able to show their art online without Art UK. The Art UK platform is rich in story content, learning resources for teachers and students, and public engagement opportunities. A shared e-commerce infrastructure helps collections generate much needed commercial income.
New Trustees sought
Art UK are looking to recruit new Trustees with high levels of interest in the visual arts and how to communicate them to a wide public. Their motivated board, led by Kathleen Soriano, supports a dynamic executive team committed to making the national art collection accessible online and across a number of important initiatives set out in detail below.
Successful candidates will have:
- A love of art in all its manifestations and a strong commitment to arts education
- A track record of achievement, leadership, and innovation in their chosen career
- An awareness of the challenges faced by the cultural sector around financial resources and the need to sustain reliable core income
We believe our Board would benefit in particular from further expertise in four main areas:
- Charity finance and fundraising
- Galleries and museums
- Digital marketing
- Learning and schools education
Art UK are keen to consider people who have not served on a charity's Board of Trustees before if they bring expertise in the specialisms we're targeting. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries, particularly individuals
To learn more visit Art UK and read their Trustee Information Pack
Dear Stokies
Can I start by thanking you all? First, for buying so many of our unique T-shirts. We can’t wait to see some of the photos shared. I am in Australia currently, sharing my Stoke pride!
Second, to everyone who has signed up to speak in schools. Kaye Morrisey, our Relationships Lead, is currently putting together the directory with bios, and we’re aiming to begin in two educational trusts with students over the coming weeks and months.Dwain McDonaldExecutive Lead
Dwain McDonald
Executive Chair, Made In Stoke
Keele and Sixth Form College
We’ve secured three brilliant speakers for the next quarter, all of whom will support the business school with in-depth Q&As. We’ve also helped facilitate an excellent workshop with the business school and will work closely in the coming months to bridge business and academia.
Please reach out if your company has outstanding projects that sixth form or Keele students could work on. A big thank you to Rachel Laver, CEO of the Chamber of Commerce, who was fantastic in bringing several large businesses from Stoke, such as Motiva, KMF, and Giv Energy. I see a lot more collaboration on the horizon for 2025.
Downing Street Visit
As you know, Made in Stoke is non political and has met with representatives from the previous government and now with the new one. Place-Based philanthropy and place-based giving networks like ours are very relevant, and I'm proud to say that Stoke on Trends' very own Made in Stoke was asked to attend Downing Street, and our fabulous Chair Nicky went and represented us.
She came back very confident that the blueprint we are creating in Stoke is something the country is looking at very closely
Centenary 2025
Next year, Stoke celebrates its 100th year as a city, and you can bet we’re right behind it.
We’re working with Made in Stoke members to look at how we support our centenary year, and we expect to announce the full story later this month.
Made in Stoke Ambassadors
We’re expanding our volunteer task force to spread positive messages about the city and the work we’re doing to make it just a bit better. If you’re interested in volunteering, even just a few hours a week, and think you can make an impact, we’d love to have you on the team.
Together, we can all do a little to make our city better.
