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Grant Applications Go Online!

Through the last year the SDAC has been modernising various aspects of it’s operation to better serve our members, as well as meet the needs of GDPR and data privacy. This is an ingoing effort, as data privacy and security is a critical part of any organisation which collects personal information on people, and in our case, awards funds in the form of grants.

We did some tidying as regards our email and hosting, and now the only two email addresses you need to worry about are:

Secretarysecretary@stafforddistrictartscouncil.org.uk
Treasureraccounts@stafforddistrictartscouncil.org.uk

Additionally, we are no longer dealing with cheques, and all subscriptions and grant awards shall be made by direct transfer. You can find details of how to pay subscriptions on our members page.

Of most impact to you – we have also taken our grant application form online, and updated it to reflect events with remote participation or audience! This is a huge leap forward for us in terms of data retention, and we hope makes the whole application experience easier.

Over the coming months we shall also be moving our event evaluation and other forms online, so stay tuned.

Roger Foxcroft
Chairman, SDAC

The Game – Tuesday 6th – Saturday 10th November 2018 – MET Studio

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The Game
Blackton Football Club is in trouble, and the chairman is about to sell his star player to save the club and himself from ruin, as well as indulging in a bit of match fixing. But his daughter, the star player’s fiancée, may have something to say about this. And the star’s redoubtable mother looks likely to scupper both the marriage and the transfer. A story of love, honour, class and football in the 1900s, by the author of Hobson’s Choice, Harold Brighouse.

Tickets available here – https://www.staffordgatehousetheatre.co.uk/en-GB/shows/the%20game/events

Notes from the 2018 AGM & October Meeting

Thanks to all the members that came yesterday to our AGM – it’s always lovely to catch up with member societies. Don’t forget if you have posters or photos from events we’ve supported we love to share them on here and our other social media channels and we’re keen to promote your events far and wide. You can send things directly to our Web Mistress Nia at staffsdub@gmail.com

The Executive Committee remains the same and Andrew continues as Chair, with Ralph as Vice Chair, Rod as Treasurer and Stuart as Secretary. Details of the contact details are here

Also attached are the SDAC AGM REPORT 2018 and the SDAC_TrusteesReport_2018 for your information.

Following the AGM we held our usual Executive meeting and agreed grants for Chanteuse – https://www.chanteusechamberchoir.co.uk/ & The Arts Society Stafford – http://www.theartssocietystafford.org.uk/

Local History Events

Our Chair, Andrew, has been busy preparing two excellent forthcoming evening events on local history

Elegant Entertainments

Thomas Anson’s musical world and his composer chum Anthony Kammell – including musical illustrations. This includes recently discovered unpublished material.

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The Shepherdess’s Secret – The full historical background to the Shepherds Monument and ideas behind 18thc Shugborough – which I will argue are revolutionary, extremely important and little known.

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Tickets must be booked through the library.
Telephone: 0300 111 8000

Your call will be answered by Staffordshire County Council’s Contact Centre staff who will be able to deal with your library enquiry

During Sunday opening hours, please call 01785 278351

Fax: 01785 278599

Email: stafford.library@staffordshire.gov.uk

Stafford Choral Society’s May Programme

We’re forever trying to build up an image archive of events we’ve supported – so we’re very thankful to the Stafford Choral Society for sending us a copy of their programme for their May concert (along with their post event evaluation form) – you can find out more about the society and forthcoming conferences here – http://stafford-choral.org.uk/

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