This is an Arts and Education consultancy specialising in Disability and Deaf Arts and Community Arts. SunSurfer is an umbrella organisation where a whole range of projects are developed and delivered. The key contact for this site is Mickey Fellowes. Resume…
I can work individually or assemble a skilled team to devise and deliver projects for you. Some examples of services we offer are shown below.
What can we do for you?
Arts Project Management
- Successful devising, development and delivery of arts projects. See the arts projects pages for examples of successful creation, development and delivery of arts projects.
Arts and Education Project Management
- Devising, developing and delivering FE and HE accredited courses with an 89% graduation rate. Trained over 100 people in arts workshop skills, performing arts, visual arts and arts business skills from a range of backgrounds and with diverse impairments, creating new opportunities for their lives and careers.
Workshops in Drama and Creative Writing
- We can offer community arts drama and creative writing workshops. A speciality is build-a-performance workshops where an untrained group participate in workshops to create a performance over a limited period of time. I have run build-a-performance projects in Manchester and Carlisle.
Workshop skills training
- I designed and was co-module leader on the Higher Education accredited Arts Workshop leaders course run by NWDAF and Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) accredited by Liverpool John Moores University. See Arts & Education projects
Disability Action Training and Cultural Diversity Training
- Particularly in an Arts and Creative Industries context
Fundraising and organisational Development
- I have negotiated, devised programmes and projects and written the applications that brought in over £250,000. I have managed programmes of work to the budgets and written effective reports and evaluation.
- Adult & Community Learning Fund (twice)
- Regional Arts Lottery Programme
- Lloyds/TSB foundation
- Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust
- Employing Creativity (North West Development Agency)
Support for Disabled and D/deaf people in the arts
- Work for the Arts Council Fellowship Programme for Black, minority Ethnic and Disabled Fellows.

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