Membership Benefits
Earlyarts members belong to one of the largest professional development networks in the country that values every single one of its members. They recognise that they can work smarter together than harder alone, and help each other take little steps that make a big difference in their working lives.
Members benefit from being connected with over 5000 amazing people working responsibly and creatively with children and families. As well as benefiting from free places at four of our Professional Development Days in the year, Earlyarts Members have exclusive access to the Artist Database and Brief Builder Toolkit (ideal for settings developing relationships with local artists or for promoting artist’s own work), discounts and priority bookings for Earlyarts events, quarterly e-bulletins, free advertising on our website and in e-bulletins.
As well as Earlyarts Ten Key Professional Development Services on offer, Earlyarts will provide significant additional benefits including having…
• A network that is exciting, motivating, informative and highly stimulating
• Insights into what aspirational creative practice looks like.
• Time and space to stand back, reflect on current thinking and see things from a different perspective.
• A sense of confidence and connectedness, understanding your 'fit' within the bigger picture.
• A wider view of creativity and the impacts on children's development.
• Access to secure critical and trusted friends for testing out new ideas.
• Chance to share your experiences with a network of Champions committed to creative learning.
• Ability to talk with, ask questions about, and understand, different agencies' policies and initiatives.
• A wealth of research and ideas to help support your approaches to Every Child Matters, the Early Years Foundation Stage, Extended Schools, Learning Outside of the Classroom or Children and Young Peoples Plans.
• Increased critical awareness of creative pedagogies that can support different learning needs.
• A network of highly experienced arts, cultural, social care and educational professionals available for collaborative projects or joint research.
• Developing relevant competences, skills and dispositions with which to improve as a creative professional.
• Opportunities to promote and celebrate your own practice nationwide through the network.
• A feeling of empowerment to change work patterns and achieve excellent practice.
• Connecting your knowledge and research into a stronger, more useful evidence base, helping us to advocacte the positive impacts of creative practice on children's social, emotional, physical, cultural and communication needs.
• Access to top level advocacy that impacts upon, and influences, regional and national policy making.
• Excellent networking and job openings - a lifeline for artists and freelancers.