SNAP Collaborative Development Programme (360G-phf-29041)

ArtWorks funding has been awarded to Sheffield Network of Arts Providers (SNAP) to run a series of collaborative enquiry days, bringing together a selection of artists from different career stages and art forms with employers and commissioners from key organisations in the city. Through these sessions they aim to identify clusters within the network that will enable and encourage cross member collaboration, drive individual learning, generate new ideas for innovative approaches to participatory practice with children and young people and generate embedded practitioner development opportunities. Participants will then have the opportunity via small enabling budgets to apply some of the ideas/approaches that emerge from the enquiry days within a range of participatory settings. They aim to use these funds to strengthen the existing SNAP network, agreeing a shared direction for artists and employers, more joined-up activity and a clearer path for future developments. SNAP was set up over a year ago in response to research from the Sheffield Culture Consortium around gaps in provision and a lack of joined up working between providers in the city. SNAP provides a space for those working with children and young people to connect, collaborate, share best practice and advocate for the sector within the city and region.