Transforming Leadership is an exciting national initiative to develop learning disabled and autistic cultural leadership. It is being led by Access All Areas and is funded by Arts Council England. It will run until March 2025. The aims are to: Share skills and best practise in co-directing and inclusive governance amongst all partners Create training and pathways for […]
Time and Space to do things better It’s five months since DIY became a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO). In November 2022 we were very excited to hear the news that we had been offered funding from Arts Council England as part of its 2023-26 Investment Programme. In April this year we started our NPO journey! For […]
As we celebrate Learning Disability Week (19 to 25 June) DIY Theatre is celebrating its role in ‘Transforming Leadership’. This new national arts programme is putting learning disabled and autistic people at the heart of cultural leadership. Transforming Leadership is being coordinated by Access All Areas (AAA) who are known for making disruptive theatre by […]
Gamechangers are working on their Leadership Profiles DIY Gamechangers is DIY’s Creative Leadership Training Programme, funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. As part of the training programme DIY’s Gamechangers have been creating their own profiles to express how they see themselves as leaders – to portray their unique leadership styles. The completed profiles will be […]
Gamechangers is DIY’s ambitious Leadership Training programme for leaders with lived experience of learning disability. The programme will run for 3 years thanks to funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. DIY Gamechangers – backing creative leaders Gamechangers is our exciting new programme for adults with learning disabilities who want to explore creative leadership skills […]