Webinar: Growing Programmes and Services
Discover how repayable finance can encourage sustainable growth in this Q&A…
Discover how repayable finance can be used to facilitate new, income-generating activities for your organisation in this Q&A with Fuse Arts Space / CAMP FR.
In this webinar, James Birchall, Director of Fuse Arts Space and CAMP FR, talks about his experience of taking on repayable finance to facilitate a completely new revenue stream that is designed to support the ambitions of another project. James runs Fuse Arts Space in Bradford, a performance and gallery space that hosts exhibitions, concerts, workshops as well as running a record label and publishing imprint. CAMP FR is a residential arts facility in the French pyrenees which was born out of Fuse and the relationships developed there. The camp runs 5-day residencies on art, music and writing, taught by exciting practitioners from their field including Terry Riley, Julia Holter and Simon Armitage.
The aim of CAMP FR is to enable people to make new work that may be showcased at Fuse and to allow any surpluses to be passed up to Fuse so that it may become less reliant on grant funding. CAMP’s five year plan projects that the residencies will become profitable enough to enable Fuse to carry on without relying on ACE or public funding. Arts Impact Fund’s loan supported the purchase of the former farmhouse where CAMP is based and refurbishment work.
The Q&A with James begins at 22:04, preceded by an introduction from the Arts & Culture finance team that explains what we offer, what we look for and other examples of similar projects that the team are currently pursuing. Key points from the webinar are also written below.
Q&A with James Birchall
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