ArtReach have two tenders available for Website Development and a Rebrand process as part of our digital development and future business plans.
ArtReach History
For a brief overview of ArtReach’s history please visit this page: https://artreach.biz/our-work/
Our Vision and Mission
The ArtReach Vision and Mission has evolved and been refined over 21 years of development and encompasses the organisation’s main areas of activities, which are:
- Festival development and delivery, and commissioning (both as Creative Producer of Journeys Festival International and Liberty UK, and in support of other arts and cultural organisations and programmes).
- Consultancy to support partnerships, organisations and artists/practitioners operating in the arts/cultural sector
- Public art commissioning, in partnership with local authorities and other community and statutory organisations seeking to animate public spaces
Vision
ArtReach aims to be an international leader in producing extraordinary art that reaches and captures the imagination and engagement of everyone.
Mission
ArtReach makes great art possible and accessible, connecting art with grass roots and diverse communities to forge creative engagement.
What we do
ArtReach is a creative cultural development charity operating across the UK and internationally to initiate, drive and support innovative and accessible arts projects that engage all communities with artistic excellence.
ArtReach supports and delivers large-scale ambitious projects as well as grassroots community development programmes. It has a strong reputation for work with culturally diverse communities and diverse arts practitioners/organisations, and excels in partnership working. You can read more details about each adn download each tender below.
ArtReach has a particular focus on supporting refugee and asylum seeker artists, and sharing the experience of refugees through great art. The organisation is committed to development and delivery of activity in Leicester, Manchester and Portsmouth and to specific communities of kind e.g. refugees and asylum seekers.
ArtReach has a track record of successful commitment to the development and delivery of high quality, innovative arts programmes and projects that pioneer new ways of working; that stretch artistic boundaries; and that encourage audience development, forging new ways of community and individual engagement.
ArtReach supports and helps drive innovative, creative arts projects to succeed.
Please note, our preference is to contract both tenders with one company.
ArtReach: Website development: invitation to tender
ArtReach is seeking to appoint a web company to rebuild our websites.
Website development
ArtReach has recently commissioned digital marketing agency Breathe to research and recommend improvements to our digital presence and development alongsides our digital programme and engagement. As a result of this analysis, we now wish to appoint a web developer to improve our website as a key part of our marketing and communications.
ArtReach currently runs 3 websites: artreach.biz, www.libertyukfestival.com and www.journeysfestival.com. We wish to refine these websites (keeping artreach.biz as our main/parent website) to improve our digital presence and engagement. This tender will work alongside a rebranding of ArtReach and its subsidiary brands. We expect this contract to:
- Replicate / transfer and improve all our websites onto one operations system
- Improve user journey and entry points
- Integrate pathways from ArtReach to each sub brand site
- Improved and integrated google analytics or google data dashboard across all platforms
- Improve UXP across all sites
- All sites to be brought up to latest accessibility requirements
- Creating a legacy area for digital archive
- Creating an access area for all relevant event based access details
- Integrate streaming and media software into each site for webinars, workshops and performance films
- Create multi user log in system with hierarchical access
- Optimize all sites for mobile access
- Create a series of flexible templates for pages (with specific reference to event pages)
- Define new navigation and menu systems up to date with latest best practise
About you
Your company will be expert in web development, with particular experience in working in the cultural sector. You will have excellent knowledge of the arts sector, and be happy to collaborate with staff teams.
Budget and timescale
The indicative budget for this work is between £7,000-£10,000.
We would like to be able to launch our new website(s) in Spring 2022.
See how to apply at the bottom of this webpage or in this document. Website Tender (ArtReach)
ArtReach: Rebrand: invitation to tender
ArtReach is seeking to appoint a design company to refresh and refine our brand.
Rebrand
We need a new brand to help us stand out from the crowd and enable us to consolidate our existing audiences and attract new ones. Our new brand should:
- Create a refreshed brand which provides clarity about who we are and what we do
- Support us in refining our vision, values, mission and key messaging, and clearly articulating our offer to existing and potential external partners and audiences
- Be coherent across our business and individual festival websites; creating a visual family of brands
- Develop our persona; our tone of voice and personality, bringing our activities, events and festivals alive
- Strengthen our aesthetic and presence
We want a brand that is distinct and enables us to deepen and extend our engagement and presence. A brand which resonates with our key stakeholders and partners; with artists and with audiences. We want to be current and contemporary, and present a consistent public face.
What we need
We are looking for a brand identity which will work across all the ArtReach elements: websites (currently artreach.biz, www.libertyukfestival.com and www.journeysfestival.com), in print (programmes, leaflets), on social media platforms, site decor at events and for business usage (business cards, headed paper, reports etc.). This will include:
- Rebranding of ArtReach with acknowledgement and adaption to suit existing (mild) brand elements of JFI/LIBS UK
- Creation of overarching and sub brand guidelines including tone of voice and taglines
- Create a raft of new design and digital assets for ArtReach and each sub-brand
- Create new ArtReach and sub brand logos, colour pallet, typography
About you
Your company will be expert in rebranding, with particular experience in working in the cultural sector. You will have excellent knowledge of the arts sector, and be happy to collaborate with staff teams.
Budget and timescale
The indicative budget for this work is between £5,000-£8,000.
We would like to be able to launch our new brand in Spring 2022.
See how to apply at the bottom of this webpage or in this document. Rebrand Tender (ArtReach)
ArtReach Tenders: How to Apply
Please note, our preference is to contract both tenders with one company.
To apply
To apply for these opportunities, please send:
- A company CV
- A portfolio of relevant work
- A draft budget
Please submit these by midday on Friday 25 June 2021 to
We will make a decision based on your submission and expect to inform all applicants of the outcome by 30 June.
We look forward to hearing from you!
