South Cambridgeshire District Council and the Village Colleges
The post of Arts Development Manager (ADM) was created as part of South Cambridgeshire District Council’s Dual-Use Arts Strategy. The dual use arts framework document, adopted by SCDC in February 2003, means that:
“Certain facilities, equipment and resources used for school curriculum and community education classes are also available, through a formal agreement, to support ongoing programmes of arts activity for the benefit of the district’s residents.” (Arts Dual Use, 2003:3)
This dual use scheme allowed for the creation of a partnership between the village colleges and the District Council which aimed to secure additional and sustainable arts activity and participation in South Cambridgeshire. The first ADMs were appointed by Sawston Village College and Melbourn Village College (with Bassingbourn Village College) in 2003.
Today, there are five ADMs in South Cambridgeshire working out of seven village colleges. Village colleges with an ADM include Comberton, Cottenham, Impington, Linton, Melbourn, Sawston and Swavesey.
These posts were filled as follows:
| Sep 2003 | First ADMs appointed to Melbourn and Sawston Village Colleges |
| 2003 | Linton Village College joins the Sawston partnership |
| ? | ADM appointed to Swavesey Village College |
| Apr 2006 | ADM appointed to Cottenham Village College |
| Sep 2006 | ADMs across the district explore the idea of creating an umbrella organisation to support collaborative working |
| Apr 2007 | Impington Village College joins the Cottenham partnership |
| May 2007 | ADMs work together on district-wide programmes under the umbrella of ‘stART – supporting arts development’ |
| Jan 2008 | ADMs adopt patch-specific branding which links the village colleges to stART |
| Aug 2008 | ADM appointed to Comberton Village College |
The current stART Arts Development Managers are:
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Richard Brown Comberton AreaComberton Village College West Street, Comberton, Cambridge CB23 7DU01223 262503 extension 267 richard@start-arts.org.uk |
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Amy Wormald Cottenham & Impington AreaCottenham Village College High Street Cottenham CB4 4UA01954 288748 amy@start-arts.org.uk |
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Kirstin Bicknell Melbourn AreaMelbourn Village College The Moor Melbourn Royston SG8 6EF07770 643165 kirstin@start-arts.org.uk |
| Lesley Morgan Sawston and Linton AreaSawston Village College New Road Sawston CB22 3BP01223 712825 lesley@start-arts.org.uk |
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| Karen Thomas Swavesey AreaSwavesey Village College Gibraltar Lane Swavesey CB4 5RS01954 234476 karen@start-arts.org.uk |