As part of our National Heritage Lottery Funded work exploring the Brass Bands Archive, Brass Bands England is searching for an Outreach Delivery Partner to spread the stories and social history of the archive to children in Huddersfield through the creative arts.
About the Brass Bands Archive
The Brass Bands Archive (BBA) records over a century of brass band history in Britain and internationally. The collection includes a vast array of material relating to several aspects of brass band history; including material recording the relationship between banding and industry; records relating to the history of brass band contests; photographs, uniforms, scrapbooks and other ephemera relating to a number of bands and banding individuals; a wealth of brass band publications; and an extensive collection of sheet music. The archive is held at Heritage Quay, the information, records management and archive service at The University of Huddersfield.
Our aims for the project
Through this piece of outreach work we are looking to engage with 180 children and young people attending school in the HD1 postcode of Huddersfield. Through delivery of creative workshops, we hope to leave the young people involved with a sense of belonging, and encourage them to feel invested in the heritage of their local area. We are aiming for the young people, and their families to have increased knowledge and awareness of brass banding, its culture and social history, and to have had a positive experience of creative curriculum-based learning. You may be an organisation or an individual, but must be confident you can deliver both the development and delivery aspect of the work in the time frame advertised.
Your work with us
The Outreach Partner would be responsible for:
- Contacting and confirming schools taking part in the project
- Developing and delivering creative curriculum-centred workshops KS2-aged children across the school and at Heritage Quay.
- There are to be a minimum of 2 delivery days per school, one at school and one at Heritage Quay.
- The delivery at Heritage Quay should be w/c 1 July, with school workshops taking place in June.
- Developing follow-on resources and activities for teachers to use in class after the delivery period.
- Ensuring practitioners delivering to schools are suitably DBS-checked with a working knowledge of safeguarding best practice.
Throughout the partnership period you will be working closely with BBE’s Brass Bands Archivist and Projects Officer to support you in using the collection as an inspiration for the creative workshops you choose to deliver. To share the music of the Archive, you will be working in partnership with BBE’s education team on one of the days of delivery.
There is a total project fee of £6,000 inclusive of VAT to deliver this work.
Registering your interest
This is an open process, and an opportunity for BBE to create links with creative organisations that we hope to work with long term. If you feel this project is of interest you can contact BBE’s Chief Operating Officer Sarah Baumann for an informal conversation. You can submit a proposal using the Outreach Delivery Partner form by 9am on Monday 29 January.