THE STOVE NETWORK LIMITED

To contribute to running costs for the Wild Goose festival in October 2024 in Dumfries, celebrating nature, creativity and place.

towards the first year of the Hear/Here public art programme and the establishment of a print resource

Towards project costs to establish What We Do Now as a network for Dumfries and Galloway and a wider resource for communities, supporting them to lead change from within their places through creative collaboration.

This group will continue to use creativity as a tool for community engagement skills development and improving wellbeing by delivering a programme of activity led by the community to meet their needs and aspirations. Based in Dumfries the activities ....more

This group will continue to use creativity as a tool for community engagement skills development and improving wellbeing by delivering a programme of activity led by the community to meet their needs and aspirations. Based in Dumfries the activities will involve 970 people and 147 volunteers over three years.

The Stove

To complete a series of physical improvements to the community café and community venue space.

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Activity Programme

This group will use the arts and creativity as tools to involve the local community in shaping the future of the town of Dumfries. Activities will include a mixture of open public events including the Nithraid River festival, community-programmed ....more

This group will use the arts and creativity as tools to involve the local community in shaping the future of the town of Dumfries. Activities will include a mixture of open public events including the Nithraid River festival, community-programmed cinema, consultation events, skills training in creative industries and schools and college outreach based activities.

The Creative Futures project will benefit 160 volunteers from Lochside and Lincluden and 6,400 individuals, some from outside the community, over a four year period. The aim of the project is to build confidence and self-esteem in the participants. ....more

The Creative Futures project will benefit 160 volunteers from Lochside and Lincluden and 6,400 individuals, some from outside the community, over a four year period. The aim of the project is to build confidence and self-esteem in the participants. This will enable local people to develop skills to have a bigger voice within their local communities and to influence decision which affect them.

Cultural Wayfinding - Our Norwegian Story

ArtWorks funding has been awarded to The Stove Network to undertake initial research towards developing an MA module in Environmental and Participative Practice. The Stove Network will work with an existing informal network of other place-based arts ....more

ArtWorks funding has been awarded to The Stove Network to undertake initial research towards developing an MA module in Environmental and Participative Practice. The Stove Network will work with an existing informal network of other place-based arts projects in Scotland and Wales as part of their research. As well as informing the longer term development of a MA module, they plan, though their engagement with other rural place based partners, to strengthen this informal grouping and share their research at the end of the process. This research will be jointly run with the University of West Scotland as their academic partner (pending match funding from the Innovation Voucher Scheme). This funding will enable The Stove Network the research the feasibility of developing a formal training offer as part of their longer term business plan. The Stove Network is an artist led collective based in a disused three story former shop in the town centre of Dumfries with a membership of circa 200 people ranging from international artists to emerging artists and students. Their core mission is about breathing new life into the town using art and creativity and actively involving local people. They are particularly interested in exploring how they can create a sustainable business model for both the building and the wider network. Part of this is exploring the feasibility of setting up an MA module that would be run through the Stove Network and provide academic institutions a residential course for students to study environmental and socially engaged practice. This would offer employment for their network members, bring new artists into the area to cross fertilize with the existing artist community and potentially offer a sustainable business model in the longer term.