Helpful Resources
Ryde-based Civic Educational Resources
Aspire, Ryde
Website: http://aspireryde.org.uk/
Contact: info@aspireryde.org.uk
Calendar of events
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r?cid=aspireryde@gmail.com
Aspire, Ryde: Transforming Place and Transforming People
Aspire is a community hub, providing services throughout the week in a redundant church building which now buzzes with activity.
New Carnival Company, Ryde
Website: https://www.thenewcarnivalcompany.com/
Contact: info@thenewcarnivalcompany.com
Phone: (0)1983 716095
The New Carnival Company is a pioneering arts development organisation based on the Isle of Wight specialising in carnival and outdoor public celebrations.
Shademakers / Department, Ryde
Website: https://www.shademakersuk.org/
Contact: sharon-george@hotmail.co.uk
Shademakers UK are one of the leading carnival groups in Europe. See their website for the assortment of activities on offer.
Umbrella Hub
Website: https://www.umbrellahub.co.uk/
The team at Umbrella Hub have been talking to the community and local businesses in Ryde and we have identified that there is a significant opportunity to develop a community initiative in the centre of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
A community focus in the heart of town will have immense benefits for the local community as well as providing additional benefits directly to those living, working or just visiting Ryde.
Monkton Arts
Website: www.monktonarts.co.uk
Contact: monktonarts@gmail.com
Facebook (event listings): www.facebook.com/monktonarts
Monkton Arts is a Ryde-based arts-oriented cafe with 3 open studios, the Acons public exhibition gallery and the Sara-K Children’s Gallery. The Monkton Arts team regularly work with local primary and schools in Ryde to publicly display children’s artwork in the Sara K gallery, including GCSE and A-Level final exhibitions, arts competitions and various other projects. Monkton Arts also initiate various community-centred projects including Fifty Familiar Faces, Two Tidal Towns, Monkton Village Gallery and an annual island-wide arts competition. The Monkton team are inspired by the community for the community and seek to regenerate and rebuild (with plenty of coffee!)
Isle of Wight-based Educational Resources
The Island Collection
Website: https://islandcollection.org.uk/
Contact: hello@islandcollection.org.uk
The Island Collection does not yet have any paid staff. The board of trustees are volunteers who represent many and varied organisations and interests, chaired by Simon Harrison who is independent of any art & culture commercial interest. We meet monthly to agree strategy, to monitor projects and expenditure. Once the pandemic is under control we fully intend to hold events and open meetings for Island based arts & culture stakeholders to attend.
Isle of Wight CEP (Cultural Education Partnership)
Website: https://liftthelidiow.com/
Contact: liftthelid@gmail.com
The Isle of Wight Cultural Education Partnership comprises cultural organisations including heritage, arts, libraries and museums, artists and school teachers from across the Island. We have members from youth organisations, local councils and other interested parties too.
Earth Museum, Isle of Wight
Website: https://theearthmuseum.co.uk/
Contact: enquiries@theearthmuseum.co.uk
Students can use our interactive maps in the classroom or at home to dive into the history of our fascinating Island through objects and stories looked after by Isle of Wight museums. We have created a map for each one of our programme themes to support curriculum-based learning for KS2 and KS3 students. They can be used as standalone resources for refreshing and consolidating existing knowledge, as a complement to museum field trips (Covid-19 permitting), and eventually as part of the Isle of Wight Museums and Schools Programme currently under development on this website.
Independent Arts
Website: https://independentarts.org.uk/
Contact: info@independentarts.org.uk
Independent Arts is an Isle of Wight charity, established in 1987, using the arts to improve wellbeing, quality of life and to reduce social isolation. We believe that art is for all stages of life and we deliver vital services across all ages, mindful of the range of needs:
Often older people on the Isle of Wight are amongst the most vulnerable, including those in care homes and those on the fringes of social care.
A higher than average number of children on the Island live in poverty (34%).
Mental health services are stretched, which can affect people of any age.
Arts and wellbeing are interlinked and we focus on bringing arts to those who might not otherwise be able to benefit from them.
Artecology
Website: https://www.artecology.space/
Contact: contact@artecology.design
Artecology is the innovative cross- discipline research and development department of Arc Biodiversity & Climate. We are based in Sandown Bay in the South East corner of the Isle of Wight UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. Our clients typically come from, industry, corporate, NGO and regulator settings. Our work features in current IGGI policy guidelines issued by the UK Environment Agency.
National Educational Resources
House of Imagination
Website: https://houseofimagination.org/
Contact: p.hay@bathspa.ac.uk
House of Imagination provides a range of spaces for children and young people to collaborate with creative professionals -it is a home for improvisation, creativity and innovation and a place to make those things visible to an international audience through research.
Forest of Imagination
Website: https://www.forestofimagination.org.uk/
Contact: p.hay@bathspa.ac.uk
Forest of Imagination creates a radical response to the global environmental crisis through creativity & research. This year’s event is hybrid with the Travelling Forest located across the city as well as virtual offerings.
Schools Without Walls
Website: http://www.schoolwithoutwalls.org.uk/
Contact: p.hay@bathspa.ac.uk
School Without Walls embodies a philosophy that places the children at the centre of their own learning. By transplanting them into a cultural setting, the conventions, behaviours and habits associated with the ‘classroom’ start to fall away.
Culture Mapper, Southampton
Website: https://southampton.culturemapper.org.uk/
A user-friendly, online mapping tool capturing quantitive data on cultural engagement activity for and with children and young people across Southampton.
Culture Mapper has been developed for Connecting Culture – a ground-breaking new project led by the University of Southampton with a large consortium of cultural organisations and child-focused services, exploring the question of how Southampton’s thriving Cultural Quarter can enrich the lives of children and young people as a future creative hub.
Fun Palaces
Fun Palaces supports local people to co-create their own cultural and community events, across the UK and worldwide, sharing and celebrating the genius in everyone.
Watch to find out more: https://vimeo.com/502708515
Mutual Gain
The raison d’etre of MutualGain is to empower organisations and communities to reconnect in the social space, which lies between the state and the individual. Ultimately, we aim to promote greater participation and active citizenship within our democracy and increase social capital, for the mutual benefit of all.
Common Ground
https://www.commonground.org.uk/