Develop your career and find new work

• Members enjoy sizeable discounts for engage's sought-after continuing professional development courses and events. Recent topics have included 'galleries engaging with older people' 'art, gallery education and regeneration', and a discovery of the Visual Roots project with hard-to-reach young people.
• Get our weekly jobs e-bulletin listing new salaried and freelance opportunities in the sector - plus reminders of upcoming events. Browse the job opportunities online.
• Receive support from engage staff and informal advice from engage Area Representatives.
• 'Educator Locator': where freelance educators and artists can register their details and where galleries and schools can find a quality match for their project delivery.
• Sector guidance: access policy updates and reports.
• The engage Annual International Conference is an intensive way to learn from inspiring professionals, network and hear from the leading edge in gallery education. Members enjoy big discounts, and some bursaries are available for freelance members.
• Attend engage International Summer School for mid-career and senior professionals: a peer-led annual event held outside the UK. Some fully-funded places are made available through Grundtvig's European Visits and Exchanges Programme.

Network and build your profile

"engage plays a critical role in the development of access and learning initiatives and in their facilitation of networking between professionals."
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• The Area Group network in England and the separate meetings in Scotland and Wales mean that members can build closer relations with their colleagues in their own region. Each regional event is an opportunity to network.
• Stand to become an engage representative and take your involvement in policymaking to the next level. Representatives are members of engage's Council and have a strategic input into the development of the organisation.
• The online member finder, forum, and Educator Locator directory give you visibility among your peers and let you keep in touch with colleagues.
• The engage Annual International Conference brings people together from all sectors of gallery education and from many countries. The event - discounted for members - includes more informal events such as meals and visits, that encourage networking.

Resources, toolkits and more

• Gain access to toolkits, developed from previous successful research projects with a variety of gallery users, to guide you through implementing best practice in your own work.
• The twice-yearly Journal is issue-based around the latest discussion topics and trends in gallery and arts education. Members receive a copy by post and will shortly be able to download articles as PDFs online.
• Case studies from engage's action research programmes into effective ways of opening up visual arts to the public, are sources of both practical ideas and inspiring advocacy to gain support and funds for your own projects.
• The engage Resource, currently housed at Iniva's Stuart Hall Library, is a unique collection of documents dating from the beginnings of Gallery Education in the 1970s to the present. Members can donate their own reports and publications, which are promoted through the engage website and emails. Members and the public can access the collection on a reference-only basis to support their research.

Keep in the know

• Our regular e-engagements newsletter offers a digest of the latest highlights from engage's research and activity, news of funding opportunities, and a round-up of training and other events from engage and partner organisations.
• The twice-yearly Journal is issue-based around the latest discussion topics, trends and research in gallery and arts education.
• Read the latest News from engage and member organisations when you sign on at the website.
• Members can hear about new policy issues and concerns in gallery education at engage's annual International Conference, and they can attend at discounted prices.
• CPD and Area Group events are often scheduled around important developments in policy or the release of findings from engage's ground-breaking research projects.

Enjoy discounts

• Free and discounted entry to many arts venues in the UK and abroad
• Access funding to participate in engage's projects and CPD
• Discounted CPD and training events
• Reduced fees for Annual International Conference
• Discounted publications at engage events
• engage member organisations can advertise their job opportunities at half the non-members' price
• Promote short-term freelance opportunities*, new publications and events to other members through the engage website for free*

A note about the membership structure

We value the work of freelance and self-employed members. To support their professional development, the cost of individual membership is heavily subsidised by engage. Organisations also gain substantial advantages:

• Advertise job vacancies on the website and e-jobs bulletin at 50% discount
• For Standard and Super packages, ANY person on your staff may attend engage events in place of a named Member
• Become a participating or partner organisation in one of engage's ground-breaking, gallery education research projects. Link to projects homepage
• List your events on engage's website
• Advertise your events and news to other engage Members through the regular email bulletin.

Ready to join?
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Any questions?
Call 020 7729 5858 or email info@engage.org for an informal discussion.

* Paying less than £1500 in total
* Subject to editor's discretion

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