OXFORD ARTS CIC - Key Persons
Danielle values and promotes collaborative and partnership working for inspiriting and effective artistic, community and learning impacts. The importance of inclusivity and environmental impact have always informed her work and she is currently involved in the learning and developmental work of the Oxford Cultural Anti-Racism Alliance and Green Arts Oxfordshire Network.
Danielle can offer advice and support with set up, change and registration of new and evolving not-for-profit organisations, and guidance to organisations and individuals on to their optimum legal structure and their rights and responsibilities. She has delivered training in ‘legal essentials' for producers and arts management students, as well as charity administration services.
Jacqui has produced plays and musicals for theatre tours, outdoor events and processions, heritage and literary projects. She has organised cultural forums, symposia and platform events to support the ambitions of cultural organisations and advocate for culture in society. She has also initiated creative learning projects in schools, brokering relationships with artists and arts organisations and running specially devised creative workshops to tackle specific issues.
Jacqui is an arts consultant and arts producer. She is currently Programme Director for the £1 million Arts Council England funded Creative People and Places programme for the New Forest, Culture in Common. Jacqui has worked for English National Opera, the Royal Shakespeare Company, was director of Camberwell Arts Festival and an independent producer before moving to Oxford in 2006 to join Oxfordshire's cultural development agency as Head of Culture until 2016. From 2017 to 2022, Jacqui was a Programme Manager and Producer for Coventry City of Culture, UK City of Culture 2021-22.
Job Titles:
- Historian
- Freelance Programme Manager for the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
Myfanwy is a historian with a wealth of experience outside the ivory towers. She has worked with museums and community groups on exhibitions, projects and oral history collection, with a particular focus on ‘difficult' histories and challenging stories. Her regular teaching for the Department of Continuing Education at Oxford University focuses on memory studies, new ways of writing history, and women's narratives.
After completing her PhD in History, Myfanwy worked as a Research Fellow at the Department of Social Policy in Oxford University before moving to Oxfordshire County Council as an Equalities Adviser. She has extensive experience of research, policy, and working in politically complex situations.
As a freelance Programme Manager for the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Myfanwy built up a network of Academic Advisers and collaboration with national museums. Her work always reflects her ongoing commitment to social inclusion, with engagement projects that have included refugees and asylum seekers, pupils at risk of school exclusion, schools in areas of relative deprivation, and forging links between charities and Oxford University.
She is experienced at negotiating in-kind support for voluntary institutions and is particularly proud to have secured the free loan of a collection of Second World War military underwear for a recent exhibition.
In 2014 Jacqui Ibbotson designed and delivered the pilot of a new cultural tour for Experience Oxfordshire. The Man behind the Motor was a day tour which included a guided visit to Nuffield College, Nuffield Place and MINI Plant Oxford revealing new research about William Morris of Oxford's famous Morris Motors.