2023 roundup

Another year has passed and it’s been a busy one. We celebrated 3 years of working together and spent only 6 days physically in the same room as each other - how’s that for remote work-wifery!

In 2023 we worked with this bloomin wonderful group of folks...in alphabetical order: Amy Pennington, Brian Lobel, Creative Newhaven, Duckie, Malik Nashad Sharpe and Xavier de Sousa.

We finally shared the results of a few long-term self-led projects: Producing Liveness in Interesting Times, OPEN DOORS: The Real Cost of Artist Led Spaces with East Street Arts and 2 Environmental Responsibility resources with Arts Council England. Special shout out to Sarah Ferrari who did the gorgeous design for all of them.

As of today, we’ve fundraised £719,128 for 32 individuals and 2 organisations. We also created ANOTHER set of free-to-access ACE templates in our bid to make the v inaccessible process hopefully a little less dreadful.

We worked with 71 individuals, independent companies and organisations through advisories, mentoring and consultancy, where we spent time discussing everything from the wildest ambitious artistic ideas, right through to comparing producer burnout stories whilst sunning our feet in an outdoor pool.

We were really pleased to have been invited to facilitate workshops with students and freelancers at ArtsDepot, Axis, Birmingham Dance Network, Chisenhale Dance Space, Creative Newhaven, Rose Bruford College, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of Salford. No surprises, but the most requested topic by far for the year was fundraising.

And cos we loved sharing this so much last year, here's one for the low pay fans again - in 2023 we worked 453 unpaid hours - and they're just the ones we remembered to log. 
That's nearly 5 and a half days a month. 
A week and a bit a month, gratis.

Alongside all this, Ash somehow managed to pop out a little bundle of joy and Laura is looking forward to welcoming their new co-worker to the virtual office in 2024.

Sending love and thanks to everyone we’ve worked with this year - see you on the other side.