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About
Cockpit Arts
Cockpit Arts is an award
winning social enterprise and
the UK’s only creative-business
incubator for designer-makers.
As well as affordable studio space we
provide an array of support services
which help accelerate business
growth and creativity.
Since we started in 1986 we’ve
helped thousands of talented
craftspeople to grow their
businesses, many of whom have
gone on to achieve national and
international success.
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Contents
About Cockpit Arts
Support Cockpit Arts
Become a Fan
Become a Champion
Become a Patron
Supporter Form
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We support extraordinary
craftspeople who create
exquisite work
Our focus is on nurturing and
supporting designer-makers talented designers and artisans from
a broad range of disciplines with a
craft basis to their work. At any one
time we house up to 165 designermakers at our two London business
incubators, and many hundreds
more access support through our
programme of workshops, seminars
and online resources.
We bring the work of designermakers to the centre stage
Having a studio at Cockpit Arts is a
recognised benchmark of excellence
in craftsmanship and we are a
renowned ‘hotbed’ of creative talent.
We were one of the first to initiate
Open Studios events. Today over
11,000 visitors come to see behind
the scenes four times a year and buy
direct from designer-makers and over
18,000 people subscribe online.
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We trade for social purposes
and reinvest in the community
As a social enterprise our services
are offered below commercial
rates and any surplus we make is
reinvested to further our mission
to support and promote designermakers. We also offer Bursaries and
Awards, and our Creative Careers
programme provides previously
unemployed young people with a fast
track opportunity to a craft career.
We raise standards in
the contemporary craft
and design sectors
Our annual research demonstrates
that performance of our designermaker businesses has improved year
on year since our incubation model
was introduced in 2005. Cockpit Arts
makers outperform comparable small
businesses in the rest of the UK, and
a recent Social Return on Investment
(SROI) study showed that every £1
invested results in £3.36 in return.
Cockpit Arts is a certified social
enterprise and has been awarded
the Social Enterprise Mark as well as
Customer First, the national standard
for customer service.
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Support Cockpit Arts
Cockpit Arts is a social enterprise and a registered charity.
We do not receive regular Government funding and are largely
self-funding. Funds raised are invested back into our social remit to
support and promote independent designer-maker businesses.
There are many ways in which you can support Cockpit Arts, so
please feel free to choose whichever option suits you the best. With
any donation, you will receive complimentary tickets to our twice
yearly Open Studios events and our Supporters e-newsletter.
Fans
£50 and up
The support of our Fans enables us
to give a new joiner an induction, a
start up toolkit and an assessment
of their business needs.
As a Fan of Cockpit Arts, all you have to do
is make a minimum donation of £50 per
annum, or any amount up to £500. For
just under £500 we can devise and run
a specialised training workshop, based
on the needs of our resident designermakers.
‘Since I have been at Cockpit I have become more
professional, organised and serious about where I want to
take my business in the next few years. My self-confidence
and business have gone from strength to strength. I feel like I
can finally see myself having a successful career.’
—
Lenique Louis
Creative Careers Programme participant
Match your donation
Fan benefits
•
Our e-newsletter full of information.
•
An invitation for you and a guest
to our Summer Open Studios preview.
•
Two tickets to our Christmas
Open Studios.
Please consider matching funds you donate to us through
your Company Matched Giving Scheme. You might also wish to
claim additional funds for time you spend outside of working
hours volunteering during our Open Studios events.
This would mean that you can potentially claim up to £1,000
a year by fundraising and volunteering to support British craft
and design.
To find out more please contact: [email protected]
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Champions
£500 and up
£500 enables us to provide ten
hours of one to one coaching to
designer makers striking out into
new territory, through our Cockpit
Arts & Ingenious Business Growth
Loan Fund. Champions receive
regular invitations to see at first
hand how Cockpit Arts supports
designer-makers.
We ask for a minimum donation of £500
annually (or £41.66 per month) or
any amount up to £1,000 to become a
Champion of Cockpit Arts.
Champion Benefits
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Invitations to our previews, prize givings, and
the sociable and stimulating ‘Meet the Artist’
evenings organised exclusively for supporters
of Cockpit Arts.
•
We’ll acknowledge your support online and in
print (with your permission).
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We’ll send four complimentary tickets to
Christmas Open Studios, with special ‘early
bird’ access as well as invite you to our
Christmas Party with staff, studio holders and
trustees.
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Cockpit Arts Champions can join in our annual
Special Event, where a select number of guests
are invited to ‘have a go’ under the expert eye
of one of our professional designer-makers.
‘My studio space has been crucial in allowing me to establish
myself, in a highly competitive market, by giving me a
central London location I can invite brides to be to come for
appointments. The mentoring and business support has been
invaluable to me, and I appreciate being part of a creative hub
which has shaped my business and my ideas going forward.’
—
Stacey Robertson, Bridal accessories designer
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Patrons
£1,000 and up
£1,000 enables us, for example,
to provide six months of studio
space and support for a maker in
receipt of a Setting Up Bursary.
We ask for a minimum donation of £1,000
annually (or £83.33 per month) or any
amount exceeding this, to become a
Patron of Cockpit Arts.
‘When you look at something like Cockpit and you see the incredible talent - all of which could
easily sit in Liberty’s, which they do, or any of those big retail stores - the reason they are able
to do that is that they are looked after by great experts who go with them for the long run.’
—
Mary Portas
Patron Benefits
In return for a minimum annual donation
of £1,000, Patrons are offered all the
benefits of a Champion, as well as
the opportunity to have close engagement
with our work, develop relationships with
individual designer-makers and be involved
in developing specific initiatives.
Patrons can support Cockpit Arts ‘behind
the scenes’ by making a simple donation.
Alternatively, Patrons that would like
to become more involved, can contact
Vanessa Swann, Chief Executive,
for an initial discussion.
[email protected]
020 7419 1962
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Support Us Today
Please pay online by visiting the ‘Support Cockpit Arts’
section of www.cockpitarts.com or complete and return
the form on the following pages.
Please return completed forms to:
Development Manager
Cockpit Arts, Cockpit Yard
Northington Street
London WC1N 2NP
Partners
Find out more
We are extremely grateful to the following
organisations for their ongoing support
and partnership:
Please contact the Development
Manager on 020 7419 1963 or visit
www.cockpitarts.com to find out more
about our work; forthcoming Open Studios
and Events; see films and case studies
about our designer-makers, and other
interesting information including a guide
on how to commission your very own
bespoke, hand made items.
Clear Insurance Management Ltd
The Clothworkers’ Foundation
CultureLabel.com
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Ingenious
The Foyle Foundation
The Haberdashers’ Company
National Association of Decorative & Fine
Arts Societies
The Prince’s Trust
The Radcliffe Trust
The Worshipful Company of Drapers
The Worshipful Company of Leathersellers
The Worshipful Company of Turners
Images from front to back:
Cockpit Arts / Clear Award winner Ros Millar with Simon Taylor*, jeweller Lenique Louis*, bags by Laura
Amstein, bridal accessories designer Stacey Robertson*, chair fabric by Thornback and Peel, bracelet by Jo
Hayes-Ward, Kelvin Birk with Mary Portas*, scarf by Tamasyn Gambell.
*Photography by Jamie Trounce
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Become a supporter:
I am a new supporter
Please complete this form and return to the address
on page 8.
I am renewing my support
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I would like to support Cockpit Arts at the following level:
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I wish to make a single donation
Please tick if you would like to receive details about leaving a gift in your will.
We would like to credit Supporters at Champion and Patron level online and in our written
materials. Please indicate how you would like to be acknowledged:
GIFT AID Can you make your donation go further? Gift Aid declaration for past, present
& future donations. Name of charity: Cockpit Arts
Please treat as Gift Aid donations all qualifying gifts of money made:
Today
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(Please select all which apply)
I confirm I have paid or will pay an amount of Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax for each tax year (6 April to 5 April) that is at least
equal to the amount of tax that all the charities or Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) that I donate to will reclaim on my
gifts for that tax year. I understand that other taxes such as VAT and Council Tax do not qualify. I understand the charity will reclaim
28p of tax on every £1 that I gave up to 5 April 2008 and will reclaim 25p of tax on every £1 that I give on or after 6 April 2008.
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Please notify the charity or CASC if you: a. Want to cancel this declaration, b. Change your name or home address,
c. No longer pay sufficient tax on your income and/or capital gains. If you pay Income Tax at the higher or additional rate and
want to receive the additional tax relief due to you, you must include all your Gift Aid donations on your Self Assessment tax
return or ask HM Revenue and Customs to adjust your tax code.
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Payment Details
1. By Direct Debit
Cockpit Arts Originator’s identification Number
Direct Debit to be paid
689958
Annually
Monthly
To: The Manager of Bank / Building Society
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Bank or Building Society Address
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Reference (Official use)
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Instruction to your Bank/Building Society to pay by Direct Debit
Please pay Cockpit Arts Direct Debits from the account detailed in this Instruction, subject to the
safeguards assured by the Direct Debit Guarantee. I understand that this Instruction may remain
with Cockpit Arts and, if so, details will be passed electronically to my Bank/Building Society.
Please note: Banks and building societies may not accept Direct Debit instructions for some types of account.
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3. By Cheque
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Please make cheques payable to ‘Cockpit Arts’
Please return completed forms to:
Development Manager
Cockpit Arts, Cockpit Yard,
Northington Street, London WC1N 2NP
Cockpit Arts is a registered charity. Number 1029643
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