Phoenix Cultural Centre CIC – Annual Business Rates of £432,000.00 for Community Organisation………..

Recently, we received a bill of £61,000.00 per month. The annual business rates, £432,000.00 for a community arts space. First of all. This project was only started because there was nothing to meet these needs in the town, no plans for something like it and people wanted it. Simple, basic premise of any community led

Social Return On Investment

Gigs! @crunch_event_2023 Hastings Sat 25 March 2023

Elaine McGinty & Joe Buckley appearing this Sat!

Fiery Bird Show feat Kate Mosse & Ellie Newton 8 March #IWD2023

Here is the catch up of the Fiery Bird Show feat author Kate Mosse & Ellie Newton, Director of The Trouble Club. Here is the catch up of this week’s show featuring Kate Mosse & Ellie Newton On this week’s Fiery Bird show & International Women’s Day I will be sharing my conversations with two

PUBLIC MONEY

This was written after a frustrating meeting with a statutory funder where a community project I have been working on for 12 years had been jumping through hoops, providing evidence, need and the work done to get funding that was allocated for communities to do things to make spaces better. The mantra constantly repeated like

Surrey Cultural Strategy Forum Performance ‘The Lights of My Estate’

On Tues 24 January Joe and I were invited to open the Surrey Cultural Partnership’s Cultural Strategy Forum with a poem. The event was staged in Eastwood Leisure Centre in Sheerwater, where we live. It was an opportunity to share a poem that was written about the area, partly stemmed from frustration with the responses

Fiery Bird Show feat Jason Disley & Professor Chris Day

Catch up on the Fiery Bird Show featuring guests author Jason Disley & Professor Chris Day, Vice Chancellor of Newcastle University & contributor to the recent report from Universities UK on Universities as Enterprise Zones to aid social & economic recovery Hour 1 features Professor Chris Day & Hour 2 in conversation with Jason Disley

Acoustic Couch 26/7/22

We really enjoyed playing at The Acoustic Couch again for GSMC, thanks to those who came along and to Jac for sharing this film of Future Unfurled & Common Good – see our FB page above https://www.facebook.com/100063502513366/posts/486721140121299/ We also did our new piece ‘Public Money’ and were really touched by how something that came from

Next Gig 21st Dec Acoustic Couch Bracknell!

Last Day …

So sitting in the office of the Fiery Bird whilst the last live stream takes place, the last live music in this venue at all, then we pack up and clear out and hope our funding is successful to move on again, our third move and we hope final. There’s a woman singing with a