Amy has a 17 year track record of senior roles in the arts, and now works on a full-time freelance portfolio of consultancy, producing, mentoring & development projects across the UK.

Amy’s background & artistic specialism is in dance, with training from University of Surrey and Trinity Laban. Amy also specialises in outdoor arts, festivals, participation & community engagement with much of that experience gained during 9 years working with artsNK & Transported as Head of Dance & Circus Development in Lincolnshire, followed by working as Senior Producer with Arches Worcester Festivals in 2021.

Amy has specific experience of working in fundraising, training & business development; regularly working 1 to 1 with artists, companies & organisations securing over £1.3m in ACE funding, including DYCP, Project Grants & NPO since going freelance in 2020.

Amy is currently freelance Executive Producer with Xzibit Young Creatives a nationwide hip hop theatre choreography programme for young artists, with Wayne Sables Project installations in Doncaster and with Earth-bound multidisciplinary outdoor performance company in Leamington Spa.

She is Executive Director with Propel Dance - the UK's first professional all wheelchair touring dance company based in Birmingham and Development Director with Birmingham-based LYNNEBEC; a queer mass participation outdoor performance company. Amy is advisor & mentor to many more, a Trustee at Circomedia in Bristol and Chair of new NPO Gloucester Guildhall.

Find out more: www.amydaltonhardy.co.uk

Adam is a business professional with over 15 years of experience in the creative industries. Throughout his career, he has advisesd some of the UK’s most exciting and pioneering cultural organisations, providing valuable insight into strategic planning, resilience and income generation; generating over £30m in revenue.

Before joining Trinity Community Arts as Deputy CEO, Adam held roles with several high-profile arts organisations including Chickenshed Theatre and Cardboard Citizens where he helped to significantly strengthen their financial resilience and profile. In his current role Adam is overseeing Trinity’s creative provision, investment portfolio, and communications.

Adam is a dynamic thinker and known for his ability to bridge the gap between creative and business , helping Trinity to deliver a range of programs, events, and activities that promote creativity and cultural diversity.

Zak Mensah is co-CEO of Birmingham Museums Trust.

My mission is to ensure our people, skills and services are adaptable to the rapidly changing landscape as a cultural business. We’re experimenting with different ways of doing things including consent-based decision making, new business models, partnerships, KPIs in the arts, and sharing as much as possible publicly. Before coming to the arts sector in 2013, I helped small businesses, charities, Jisc, Universities and the Heritage Lottery Fund to ‘do’ digital well.

My background is in staff development and digital and I’ve been on the web since the late 90s and have watched the web permeate every corner of our lives.

You can follow me on twitter at @zakmensah

George has over 20 years experience as a freelance creative and a social entrepreneur. His portfolio includes a wide variety of music and community arts work including with young people, theatres, schools, colleges, producing music, promoting shows, delivering workshops and building community music spaces.

In 2007 he received a social enterprise award from Unltd for his work with WIRED, a young bands development project based at Gloucester Guildhall, through which he provided quality mentoring, recording, promotional and performance opportunities for 8 years to over 600 young musicians from the city and surrounding areas, generating over 12,000 ticket sales across 36 live shows. From 2008 to 2012 he was Managing Director of Gloucester Music Forum CIC which eventually merged with a music charity in the Forest of Dean to become the forerunner of The Musicworks.

He is an enthusiastic advocate of the arts in Gloucester and his personal practice as a songwriter, composer and music producer is influenced by the city’s history, architecture and people. Notable funded projects include The Last Train in 2019, SPACES in 2018 and Warsongs in 2014.

Currently he is a partner at Room 11 Records, a creative studio based at JOLT in Gloucester and one half of the songwriting and production duo The Powdered Earth who are working on a new Arts Council England funded project called TRACKS which involves the creation an album of songs based on the reminiscences of city residents born before 1943.

George is also a professional badminton coach with over 10 years experience and is a member of BADMINTON England’s national coach education team. In recent months he has launched the Oxstalls Badminton Academy to meet the demand for junior coached badminton sessions in Gloucester attracting around 100 members.

www.georgemoorey.co.uk