Work Record
current & previous work includes:
- Arts Award
- Arts Council England
- Arts Council England South West
- BBC Blast Tour
- Football Arts Academy
- National Student Drama Festival
- Real Training for youth music leaders and arts workers
- Route 36 Rockschool for Relics
- Giant Productions
- Ignite!
Arts Award
Ruth is a senior trainer, moderator and consultant for the Arts Award. She is also the Regioanl Developmetn Co-ordinator for Arts Award South West and an experienced adviser.
The Arts Award, now five years old is the first accredited youth arts scheme to recognise how young people develop as artists and arts leaders. Young people aged 11-25 of all abilities and interests can gain their awards in any art form. Taking part in an Arts Award develops young people’s creative and personal skills for further education or employment. Early in 2012 the new Arts Award Discover and Arts Award Explore will be launched, for children from age 7 upwards.
The award is accredited at levels 1, 2 and 3 on the National Qualifications Framework.
Ruth offers an insight and professional integrity that is enormously useful to the development of the Arts Award. She is reliable, easy to work with and successfully manages a complex portfolio of roles within the Arts Award.
Alice Young, Arts Award Manager, Trinity Guildhall
Arts Council England
Arts Council England has commissioned Ruth Jones Ltd in partnership with Resource Base to run a national roadshow across England to promote the arts award to the arts and cultural sectors, and to develop and pilot a new Arts Award “welcome” scheme.
Ruth has also delivered a number of other commissions for ACE, including a report and recommendations for young people’s participation.
We’re delighted to work closely with Ruth on these two initiatives to promote and develop the Arts Award. She has brought energy and inventiveness to the roadshow programme, and her extensive experience of how young people relate to arts organisations has shaped and clarified our Arts Award Welcome pilot.
Diana Walton, Head of Arts award, Arts Council England
www.artscouncil.org.uk/artsaward
Arts Council England South West
Ruth Jones Ltd worked with artsmonkey to pilot a new CPD training experience for youth arts workers in the south west called “Refresh & Recharge”. The training allows arts workers to step aside from day to day pressures and legislation which surrounds their work with young people to trace how they got where they are, exchange skills and experiences, and plan their own future. The training was commissioned by ACE South West. The training package is now available to local authorities, programmes and projects who want to support their freelance and independent practitioners, especially important as more and more professionals work in “portfolio” careers.
Download details here Youth Arts Refresh Recharge R&R training
www.artscouncil.org.uk/southwest
BBC Blast tour
Ruth programmed and managed BBC Blast Southampton 2010 using the touring media village. The work experience team she recruited and trained have all gone on to work succesfully in media, arts and cultural roles, and the three day Blast event involved participatory workshops and opportunities led by arts and media professionals for over 1,000 young people.
Football Arts Academy
Ruth worked in partnership with REDBIRD MEDIA to develop and deliver a creative programme with four professional football clubs, culminating in Arts Award accreditation for the young people, and presentation of their work and certificates on match days. The project aimed to explore and demonstrate how an arts qualification can be delivereed in a sports setting by sports coaches, as a model for 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. The resulting documentary films have been shown on the Media Trust’s Community Channel, extensively online and at events and training, and can be viewed here
National Student Drama Festival
Ruth was contracted to act as part time Development Director between February and November 2006. Work included funding review, support for the induction of a new Chief Executive, and recommendations to the board on fundraising strategy. She set up a new friends fundraising scheme which was launched on 24th November 2006.
Real Training for youth music leaders and arts workers
One-off or series of four or five one-day training courses aimed at music leaders or arts workers covering everything from project planning and management to budgeting, fundraising, and marketing. Clients include Music Leader London & Music Xpress/Wiltshire Youth Arts Partnership. (Can be tailored for general youth arts practice)
Download details here: Music training pdf file
www.musicleader.net
www.wyap.org.uk
Rockschool for Relics
Ruth’s undying love for playing in bands led to working with musicians Colin Holton and Bob Spry of Route 36 to launch “Rockschool for Relics” in South Wiltshire. (As featured on ITV Meridian news!) These hugely popular sessional workshops were aimed at older would-be musicians or “rusty rockers” who either gave up, or never got the chance to develop their interest in music when they were younger – and now need to progress from air guitar….! Available for team building or workpage package, contact for details.
This is just a quick note to thank all of you for the wonderful day I enjoyed at Route 36 last Saturday. You were all so welcoming and allayed the many fears I had of performing with others. The atmosphere was terrific and your structured approach perfect. Since then I have been listening to music in a very different way. What you did on Saturday was great, and I can never thank you enough – I still can’t get rid of the silly grin when I think of it, & would love to come back to learn more, or just enjoy the brilliant atmosphere
Andy Smith, guitar student
Giant Productions
Ruth was asked by this Glasgow based centre for inclusive arts to facilitate a challenging business planning board away day which took place shortly after news of significant Scottish Arts Council funding cuts.
“Ruth got us all working well together. Everybody got a lot from the session and it reinvigorated us as a team – we all left feeling really positive about the future. Ruth’s approach was fresh, challenging and she is a demon with the timing! Thank you for a great session.
Karen Shaw, Director, Giant
Ignite!
Ruth assisted Rick Hall and Caroline Barnes in running a series of transitions workshops for young ignite! awardees in the south west. This involved preparation and co-ordination of four workshops for 27 young people from eight different schools across the region. Ignite! was launched by NESTA and is now established as an independent project.
Voluntary work:
- Salisbury Arts Centre: trustee, board member, fundraising committee
www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk - Rebuilding Sri Lanka: trustee
www.rebuildingsrilanka.org.uk - South Wiltshire Arts Award Centre: adviser
www.artsaward.org.uk - South West Regional Youth Arts Advisory Group – member
www.artscouncil.org.uk
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