New Deal of the Mind has become The Creative Society
Since founder and CEO Martin Bright wrote the article that kick-started our work, the concept of a New Deal of the Mind has provided a mutually rewarding service in which creative organisations and businesses have directly benefitted from the creation of over 1000 sustainable jobs for young people.
As our work has evolved however, we’ve had to evolve with it, and now need a new way to better reflect the positive outcomes that we as New Deal of the Mind have helped to shape.
We are therefore evolving our brand to become known as The Creative Society with a mission to build and support the creative economy.
Look out for changes across our social media sites – coming very soon.

New Deal of the Mind is getting involved with Enterprise for the Creative Arts (ECCA) events program for Enterprise Week.
Enterprise Week is a week of exciting events, talks and activities to help young people make a success of their creative talents held during Global Entrepreneurship Week 16–22 November 2009. Martin Bright, NDotM’s founder, will be chairing an event called Turning creative ideas into money on Tuesday 17th November 4pm – 6pm at Lecture Theatre, Student Hub, Davies Street.
For further information about Enterprise Week please visit ECCA here.
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New Deal of the Mind has announced a cross party quartet of politicians who’ve joined as patrons which, according to founder, Martin Bright shows, “There’s no room for party politics in the campaign to protect and nurture Britain’s creative and artistic talent.” (more…)
NDotM is glad to note that the Guardian is running a series of podcasts from the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. The most recent podcast, a 30-minute panel seminar discussion entitled ’An age of austerity for the arts?‘, is of particular interest. It’s a rallying call for Britain’s creative industries.
The panel comprises Peter Florence, director of the Hay festival; Gill Bloomfield, of Arts and Business (formerly the Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts); Sue Hoyle, director of the Clore Leadership Programme; and Professor Shearer West, of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. (more…)
Professor Elaine Thomas, vice-chancellor of the University of the Creative Arts, writes in the Guardian that Britain needs a more creative approach to economic recovery. She’s clearly thinking along NDotM lines.
Britain has just experienced its sixth successive quarter of negative economic growth and the Government is about commence a firesale of national assets in order to balance the books.
NDotM has long called for greater investment (and job creation) in all the creative industries as a means of driving economic growth.
A great article in yesterday’s New York Times. The digitalisation of US archival collections has, over the last two years, received a great boost from the philanthropic donations of the Leon Levy Foundation. It seems the US are stealing a march over the UK on archive digitalisation.
Since 2007, over twenty leading academic, historical and cultural institutions in the US have received funds totalling $10.3m from the Foundation to “identify, digitalise and preserve their archival collections and make them available online and to the public”. (more…)