Releases

Struggling Artists Want a Helping Hand – Not Handouts

The reintroduction of an Enterprise Allowance Scheme would be more valuable to artists and creative entrepreneurs than any amount of unemployment benefit according to a new report, Creative Survival in Hard Times, published by New Deal of the Mind.

Jobs in culture and sport pass the 6000 mark, Bradshaw announces

Progress towards the creation of 10,000 new jobs for young people in the cultural and sports sectors is now well past the half way mark, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Ben Bradshaw announced today.

£1.45 million for 223 jobs thanks to New Deal of the Mind

Over 200 previously unemployed young people to work in an exciting, creative environment that might otherwise have proved impossible to break into.

No Party Politics in Campaign For Arts, 26 October 2009

New Deal of the Mind has announced a cross party quartet of politicians who’ve joined as patrons.

Flexibility & Self Employment Key to Boosting Employment, 13 October 2009

A more imaginative approach to dealing with unemployment is needed urgently says the pressure group New Deal of the Mind (NDotM)

Tusa Joins Campaign for Creative Jobs, 22 September 2009

Sir John Tusa is to join the Board of new Deal of the Mind

Bring Back Thatcher’s Enterprise Scheme for the Arts

The release of NDotM’s Arts Council Report into self employed options for the Creative Industries
“Do It Yourself: Cultural and Creative Self-Employment in Hard Times”

Nothing Short of a New Deal of the Mind

Chancellor recognises risk of creating a lost generation. NDotM’s reaction to The Budget 2009