The Plugged In project was an experiment in audience development and community programming. Over the course of 20 months we tried, tested and changed many different approaches, not only to working with community promoters but also in how we market events, engage with our audiences and run our venues.

We wanted to share our outcomes and learning with other arts organisations and venues, so we have put together a number of resources, reports and guides for you, as well as linked directly to the blog posts we think most useful.

Click on the links below to download the documents directly from dropbox, or be sent through to the relevant posts.

We hope these help, and remember if you have any questions about setting up or running a similar scheme you can contact Culturapedia.

Downloadable Documents

A venue guide to setting up a community promoters scheme including step by step guide and case studies taken from the project.

This was a guide produced to help guide our community promoters through the Plugged In project. It will also be useful for venues to be able to see the project from a community promoters point of view.

Programming with Community Promoters is much less straight forward than your usual in house programming process, not just for you but for the artists you are working with too. We produced a FAQ sheet to help companies understand the project, but it will also be helpful for venues when thinking about how they want to manage that process.

When selecting Artists for our programming menu, we asked them to fill out this information sheet before hand. Things asked for were based on what our Promoters, and our audiences, wanted to know before picking a show.

This document was produced as part of our final Arts Council Evaluation and is a succinct look at the work and successes of the Plugged In project and how it helped develop audiences in Pennine Lancashire.

Back of the Bus was one of the biggest projects Plugged In undertook, this report looks at what can be learnt from working on such a project, how our audiences developed and responded to the show and the partnership process between arts projects and private business.

Useful Blog Posts