Art Take Part celebrates its 1st anniversary this June and what a year it has been! We have had a phenomenal response to the site since its launch with well over a hundred groups joining our creative community, nearly 10,000 people from around the country logging on to the site and we have seen our Facebook page grow by over 700 fans and our Twitter jump to over 500 followers!

As a way of saying thank you for all the support and also to celebrate the success of our first year, we are offering three lucky groups £300 in artists costs to help fund an event this summer! The only thing we ask is that your event will involve opportunities for public participation and that it will run either between 12-20 May as part of Voluntary Arts Week or anytime in June. As an added bonus Art Take Part will come along to take pictures and film your activities - helping you gain local and national publicity in the process! The three winning groups will be chosen at random from the first 10 entries that we receive so don’t delay! Send details of your event to info@arttakepart.org.

You can also help us celebrate our first year by:

Sending your news – if you want to highlight your group, mark an event or focus on a particular aspect of your art, we can feature you in an Art Take Part article. Highlighted on our Arts Experiences page and featured in our monthly e-newsletter, you can share your enthusiasm and expertise and get free publicity for your group. Check out this article as an example www.arttakepart.org/article/4853/1/inside-art-celebrates-it-s-first-year

Getting the help you need – sign up to the ‘Running Your Group’ support service offered by Voluntary Arts Ireland at www.vaireland.org/running-your-group
Running Your Group is designed to answer the most common questions you will have when setting up a group, running events, managing money, fundraising, publicity and other activities — whatever your role. It also gives you access to hundreds of handy how-to guides.

Keeping in touch – don’t forget to sign up for the Art Take Part e-newsletter and join us on Facebook and Twitter to find out about current arts activities news and campaigns.