Employ the World Festival Network

    

We have a pool of well-connected, highly skilled freelancers available for short-term and project work.

“When you are at your busiest we can help relieve the stress by picking up and running with projects or issues you just don’t have time to start or completer”.

Costs are bespoke per project.

Email info@worldfestivalnet.com for more information. 

 

Our portfolio of expertise include...

Research                       

What’s the competition, what else is similar, demographics, other events, touring companies

Data capture, national and international comparisons

Database                        

Refine & create contact databases

Event Management        

Launches, parties, production management, outdoor events and temporary venues.

Venue & concert management

Administration              

Business plans, Future strategy and vision, basic admin, office organisation, spreadsheets, timelines

Finance                         

Budgeting, financial management, finance systems

HR

Staff handbooks, appraisals, company structure

Press and Media

Campaigns, strategies, releases, launches, connections, partners.

Marketing

Communication strategies, social networking, mail shots, a fresh look at your print, who to market to, tenders

Networking

National and international connections, represented at an event

Fundraising

Funding bodies, private and public sector

Volunteers 

Recruiting, training & managing

Website & Online

Up dating, up loading and proofing content

Social networking integration, set up and upkeep  

 

… And More

  

Our Team

 

Holly Payton  www.hollypayton.com

 

 

I am a motivated, career driven person and take my work seriously. I embrace new opportunities and challenges executing them to best of my abilities; I also like to have a nice time while I am doing it.

 

Related positions              

Brighton Festival Coordinator

Brighton Festival Events Manger

Edinburgh International Festival Concert Manager

Brighton Fringe Manager

Festival Publicist Edinburgh Fringe Venue Director

Edinburgh Fringe Head of Participant Services

Managing Director World Festival Network

 

Festival Consultant / Researcher / Networker… amongst loads of other event industry related freelance contracts… and wedding coordinating!

 

Training        

Business Start Up, Mini MBA, Henley Business School

An Introduction to Board Membership, Arts & Bus

Employing non UK Nationals, immigration laws

Arts fundraising refresher, FST Scotland

Desktop Publisher, An introduction

Outside venues risk assessing

Intermediate Web design, Community Base.

Artifax. Data base training, Artifax Event and Festival               

Essentials of Arts Management, Sussex Uni Diploma

Microsoft Access, building databases, Training course

 

Awards           

Best Fringe Manager - Fringe Report

Best Arts Event - BABA awards

Argus Angel - Angel of Brighton & star of festival

Latest 7 Award - Outstanding contribution to the Festival

 

Catherine Mattos

 

 

Excellent interpersonal skills and a good team player who can design and manage research projects and events, and work on own initiative.

 

Related Positions              

World Festival Network, Projects Director

The Sussex Beacon Events Manager & Fundraiser

Brighton Festival Fringe Events and Volunteer Coordinator

Freelance Project Manager for Events, Festival Consultancy and Arts Research

Freelance Producer

Venue Manager, Edinburgh Fringe

 

Training                                     

MA Sociology, Special Reference to Qualitative Research

Additional quantitative Statistics courses at Goldsmiths

Qualitative research methods training

Project Management Training

Volunteer working and training, Community Base  

MSOffice, social media and Internet proficient

Film Directors’ Course in Motion Picture Production

Multi-Media and Dreamweaver web design course

CUPP training (community university partnership project) 

Health and Safety Courses, Manual handling, CPR training

 

Alison Hunt

 

 

I am an accomplished finance director with 12 years experience across the arts. I am an MBA graduate with experience of financial planning and modelling, organisational and tax efficiencies, financial systems and controls, and statutory requirements.

 

Related Positions

Festivals and Events International, Consultant. Recent clients include Bath International Festival, Canterbury Festival and Three Choirs Festival

Spitalfields Festival, Finance & Administration Director

Trustee and treasurer for the British Arts Festivals Association (BAFA)

 

Training

MBA (Distinction), Southampton University

Experience of using Sage Line 50, Quickbooks Pro 8, and Act! 6.0 (CRM software) along with all Microsoft office programmes

BA (Hons) Music, Southampton University

 

 

 

 

 
 
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