Circus Engagement, Skills Development, Participation

Customer	Katy Fuller	

                   
	PID	

  	Detailed project description (200–400 words)	The Circus Engagement programme has two main strands: creatively engaging older people (Upswing); offering professional and skills development for professionals from related fields (Circus Champions).

Older People
Upswing will deliver a circus engagement programme designed specifically for older people. The project will focus particularly on older people in care but will also engage with older people more generally, with and without mobility. The aims of the project are:
- to engage older people with mobility, even limited mobility, in circus skills for both exercise and entertainment
- to engage those who work in care homes with new skills for activating the care home environment through circus activity

This will be delivered in two ways:
1. Story Box Circus
2. Aerial Dance for the over-50s

Story Box Circus
A touring experiential circus performance and workshop for staff, family and residents of care homes. The goal is to offer not only a fun, physically and mentally stimulating activity but to ultimately leave staff and residents with new skills and competencies that allow the circus to become part of their daily lives.

The adapted use of circus disciplines such as juggling/manipulation and contact work enable staff and residents to find different ways to relate to each other. Each visit will follow the three steps of the overarching project: inspiration, training and activation, first seeing and experiencing something, then trying it out for yourself. 

Our artist-educators begin with a performance, after which they lead a seated circus session for the residents and staff. In order for the seated circus to live on in the home, we will offer training to the staff (and potentially family members), providing them with a detailed guide following the training.

The aims would be:
•Residents are able to access a new and high quality arts experience
•Care home staff have new skills to be able to engage the residents and so are better able to meet their individual care needs
•Participating care homes see increased value in the arts as a tool for improving their services.
•We create a context the increases community feeling in the home encouraging staff to work one on one with residents and residents to interact with each-other.

Aerial Dance for the over 50s
A series of 5 weekends or weekday evening sessions over 10 weeks where we introduce a group to aerial dance and ensemble acrobatics.We would highlight this to be an intergenerational activities, where over fifties would be encouraged to bring a partner, a friends, a child or a grandchild.  Together, they would learn some aerial dance moves building up to a simple group choreography that could be developed into a performance made with professional and local performers.

Circus Champions
We have identified 4 individuals from dance and gym clubs across Hull to participate in a year-long training and participation programme across our circus activity. These "Circus Champions" and interested in developing their own understanding and skills in circus, either for their own professional practice or to be able to extend the offer they make as workshop leaders (for example in dance or gymnastics).  We hope this will kickstart a group of people in the city passionate about their own development in circus but also of spreading the word and building audiences for circus in the city.

The National Centre for Circus Arts has offered 4 week long places on its accredited training course to develop circus teaching in the city. We have identified circus pioneers who can take this forward and work with young people to develop skills and expertise and grow participation and audiences in this field.

The Circus Champions will be receive training,  the opportunity to go and see shows in Hull and beyond, additional workshop and mentoring with other visiting circus companies and roles, where appropriate, in the delivery of those shows.	
 	Event Synopsis (c3 sentences of headline info, replaced by official copy)	The Circus Engagement programme has two main strands: creatively engaging older people (Upswing); offering professional and skills development for professionals from related fields (Circus Champions).

Upswing will deliver a programme engaging people over 50 in basic aerial dance training and older people in care through Story Box Circus, leaving a legacy of circus activity and skills for care home workers and carers of older people. 

Four circus champions in Hull have been identified through dance and gym clubs. These will be offered training and mentoring through The National Centre for Circus Arts where accredited training will be provided. The Circus Champions will retain roles in circus productions delivered in the city throughout 2017 and by the end of the year be fully trained champions of circus in the city inspiring further circus participation through their dance and gym clubs.	
 	Project Plan	Draft	
 	RAMS	N/A	
 	Event Operational Safety Plan	N/A	
 	Budget	Draft	
 	Marketing & Comms Plan	N/A	
 	Greenlit?	N	
 	Milestones	N	
 	Change log	15/7/16 JC updated Hull 2017 contribution on SK advice
15/7/16 JC added Analysis/project code on SK advice
24/01/17 CS updated PID
27/01/17 KF updated PID	
 	Last updated (dd/mm/yyyy)	27/01/17	
 Dates	Project start date (dd/mm/yyyy)	25/01/17	
 	Project Live date (dd/mm/yyyy)	25/01/17	
 	End of Live date (dd/mm/yyyy)	31/12/2017	
 	End of evaluation date (dd/mm/yyyy)	28/02/2018	
 Categories	Project complete?	N	
 	Strand	Circus	
 	Season	1234: Thru-2017	
 	Primary art form	Circus	
 	Secondary art form	Outdoor Arts	
 	Tertiary art form	Dance	
 	Digital Requirements	Low	
 	Part of University VIK programme?	N	
 	Strategic partner?	Strategic partner funded	
 Finance	Total project budget	£30,000.00	
 	Hull 2017 contribution	£30,000.00	
 	Income factored in		
 	Analysis/project code(s)	C302	
 	ACE - £500k Autumn Statement	N	
 	ACE - £8m Legacy	N	
 	ACE - A4E	N	
 	ACE - HM Treasury for Turner	N	
 	ACE - Strategic Touring Fund	N	
 	BFI	N	
 	Big Lottery Fund	N	
 	British Council	N	
 	Ellerman Foundation	N	
 	Esmee Fairburn Foundation	N	
 	H&ER Charitable Trust	N	
 	Hull CCG	Y	
 	PRS Foundation	N	
 	Spirit of 2012	Y	
 	Are there any specific funder requirements for delivery?	...	
 People	Project Lead	Katy Fuller	
 	Producer	Cian Smyth	
 	Assistant Producer	Lindsey Hammond	
 	Production Manager	AsYet NotSelected	
 	Marketing/MC&L Lead	Laura Smith	
 	Digital Lead	Jo Charlton	
 	Comms Lead	Alix Johnson	
 	Creatives & key people (temporary field)	Upswing - Vicki Amedume (Director) and Camille Bensoussan (Producer)
National Centre for Circus Arts - Daisy Drury, Eira Gibson, 	
 Objectives	Target # audience		
 	Forecast/actual # audience		
 	Hull residents	Y	
 	Regional	N	
 	National	N	
 	International	N	
 	Children (<16)	N	
 	Young people (16-25)	Y	
 	Families	N	
 	Older people (60+)	Y	
 	Self-identify as disabled	N	
 	BME	N	
 	NEET	N	
 	Objective 1	To build skills for circus arts in the city	
 	Met? 1	N	
 	Objective 2	To encourage involvement in circus arts in the city	
 	Met? 2	N	
 	Objective 3	To build a foundation for circus arts development in the city	
 	Met? 3	N	
 	Objective 4	...	
 	Met? 4	N	
 	Objective 5	...	
 	Met? 5	N	
 	# permanent jobs created (target) [employed by H2017, >=12m]		
 	# permanent jobs created (forecast/actual)		
 	# freelance contracts created (target) [self-employed, engaged directly]		
 	# freelance contracts created (forecast/actual)		
 	# participation opportunities (target)	100	
 	...of which for school age (target)		
 	...of which for school age (forecast/actual)		
 	# commissions (target)	1	
 	# commissions (forecast/actual)		
 Performance, Residency & Legacy	Residency: What opps will be created for our education programme? How will the project build new audiences through engagement? Note #s, types & duration of participation opps.	Training for Circus Champions takes place in London at NCCA facilities.  Further mentoring, shadowing and training opportunities will be sought alongide circus programming in the city and Circus Champions will be supported to go and see shows.

Upswing Older People's Programme in care homes.  Details of reach etc tbc.  	
 	Legacy: What is built into the core project that will ensure legacy?	The training of 4 local circus leads through training at NCCA and through shows delivered.
The delivery of Story Box Circus in Hull care homes leaving care-workers with a framework for using circus activity in the exercise and entertainment of older people in care.	
 Project Management	What is the model for delivering this project? eg we will employ a creative team, we will outsource to an agency, we are contributing funding but no other resource…	Hull 2017 takes lead on delivery of skills development and engagement/participation programme.
Devolved responsibilities in show delivery will require support of the engagement, skills and participation programme.
Upswing will deliver the older people programme in care homes leaving a model for circus work with older people for care workers. 
NCCA will partner on training and mentoring programme of Circus Champions.	
 	How will delivery partners be identified and procured? Refer to the procurement flowchart and note below the agreed process (A–G) for each contract.	Artistic choice.
Circus Champions are identified through City Council Arts teams, artistic choice in terms of identifying dance and gym club leaders interested in pursuing circus skills development.	
 	Who are the delivery partners? (Contact & organisation name, contract status for each)	Upswing for older people programme
NCCA for Circus Champions skills development programme	
 	Volunteer management: What is your expectation of volunteer requirements? (Numbers, roles, responsibilities, duration / period required)	No volunteers required for engagement programmes covering older people and Circus Champions.	
 TO DELETE	Garfield Weston Foundation	N	
 	Heritage Lottery Fund	N	
 	University of Hull	N	
 	ACE - Strategic Touring Fund	N	

                             

	
Contact Details

Charlton, Jo		 jo.charlton@hull2017.co.uk default	
Fuller, Katy		 katy.fuller@hull2017.co.uk default	
Hammond, Lindsey		 lindsey.hammond@hull2017.co.uk default	
Johnson, Alix		 alix.johnson@hull2017.co.uk default	
NotSelected, AsYet			
Smith, Laura		 laura.smith@hull2017.co.uk default	
Smyth, Cian		 cian.smyth@hull2017.co.uk default