Creating an Effective Audience Development Plan

This guide takes you through several planning stages. At each stage there are signposts to further information to watch or read. It shows you how to bring everything together to make an actionable plan that will help you attract the widest possible audience in imaginative and energetic ways. It will help you identify potential audiences … More

Welcoming Syrian Refugees

This booklet offers simple guidance on how local individuals, charities and groups in the UK can help welcome refugees into our communities. It explains some of the issues surrounding the process with materials and input from groups around the country.

How to welcome refugees in your community

People across the country have been getting in touch with us to ask how they can help refugees feel part of their community. Elaine Connelly, Interim Communities Manager at Scottish Refugee Council and Ahlam Souidi Chair of the community group Uniting Nations in Scotland, give some suggestions on how you can welcome refugees.

Identity Beyond Diversity

The difference between teaching and critical pedagogy is vital to Handel Kashope Wright: ‘Critical pedagogy brings to the floor issues of social identity’ revealing where power resides and inequalities are preserved. ‘Multiculturalism’, ‘anti-racism’… terms often used without their cultural and historical meaning. Listen to Handel talk about how different politics, peoples, places intersect…

Cinema for All – Reaching Communities

In 2015 Cinema For All started our Reaching Communities project and began collaborating with disadvantaged and marginalised communities all over the UK to provided them with all the training, support and assistance they needed to establish their own community cinemas and film screenings.