Crunch! We have just been notified that the HMS Erewash residency funding has been pulled for the 2009 Derby graduates. You always know when there has "been a long discussion" and it was "a hard decision", that the news is not good.
Instead money is being diverted to nurture another creative industry -which I think is great. As we have a healthy waiting list and we never budgeted for public funding, HMS will be fine.
However, we will miss the energy and freshness of the Derby graduates. I have already been approached by students this year and so it's a shame this unique opportunity is going.
We are talking to ex-Loughborough students about some joint ventures and discussion groups… so there aare other ways of connecting with graduates.
Now we are two! Just getting our head round the Open Studios in October. Funnily enough, now we don't receive the bursary from the council we can apply for funding for marketing – what's that saying about a silver lining?
