Endelienta Arts and Spirituality in North

JOB DESCRIPTION Artistic Director / General Manager

Job Title: Director Working Hours: 0.6 FTE: 21 hours per week - flexible Payment: £1500 per calendar month Duration: 6 months initially; renewable by agreement Place of work: St Endellion and at home Line Manager: Chairman of Endelienta’s Board of Directors

Key responsibility – job purpose:

To relaunch, lead and manage Endelienta’s business to promote the arts and spirituality at St Endellion and in North Cornwall

Main Duties/Responsibilities:

1. Leading and managing the Endelienta Programme

 Overseeing the creation and coordination of the programming for the arts and spirituality  Coordinating the event-management of the programme  Ensuring that Endelienta’s activities conform with its safeguarding, health and safety, and data protection policies

2. Leading and managing Endelienta’s staff

 Paid staff  Volunteers, teams, team leaders

3. Leading and managing financial control

 Overseeing Endelienta’s financial management  Formulating short and longer term plans and budgets  Identifying and managing fund-raising opportunities  Develop and maintain relationships with funding organisations, e.g. ACE, Cornwall Council, Feast, founder members and concert patrons

4. Raising the profile of Endelienta

 Leading the development of Endelienta  Overseeing the marketing and publicity  Promoting the marketing of the St Endellion facilities to build both day-use and residential occupancy, with a particular focus on educational and youth users  Promoting Endelienta as an organisation across Cornwall, the Southwest region and more widely

5 Liaison and partnership

 Liaise with members of the Endelienta Board and with key players from each of the founder members: the Parochial Church Council, the St Endellion Festivals Trust, and the  Liaise with the PCC and the Festivals Trust (SEFT) in relation to the booking, hospitality, caretaking, and management of the St Endellion Hall, Stone Barn and Farmhouse, and with the different people involved in other parts of Endelienta’s business, such as finance, web management  Building and maintaining partnerships with other organisations – drawing on the help of directors / volunteers  Liaise with relevant partner agencies, such as St Endellion Parish Council, Cornwall Council, Cornwall Music Service, University College, Falmouth  Liaise with existing users of the Endelienta facilities to engender good relationships, and the servicing of their business needs and complaints.

6. Customers

 Foster constructive and cooperative relationships with Endelienta’s users, be they participants, performers, audience or tenants.

KEY TARGET AREAS

 Leading and managing the Endelienta programme  Leading and managing the Endelienta staff and volunteers  Leading and managing Endelienta as an organisation

PERSON SPECIFICATION

The candidate(s) will have

 A full professional qualification or a degree (or equivalent) – or, as an alternative, extensive relevant experience that demonstrates an equivalent level of knowledge and skills  Good understanding of the arts and spirituality in the context of Endelienta  Good working knowledge and experience of marketing  Good working knowledge of venue programming and facilities management  Good working knowledge of front of house and events management  Proven leadership qualities and the achievement of results  Experience of managing teams, either directly or through matrix management  Good communication skills  Diplomatic skills and an ability to bring together parties with differing objectives  Good people and customer care skills  Good organisational skills  Good literacy, numeracy and IT skills.  Ability to prepare and monitor budgets  The ability to work independently and manage a work programme  The ability to work under pressure and work in a flexible working environment  Personable and professional

APPLICATION

Applicants are asked to submit a CV with a supporting letter and details of 2 referees to Ian Sandbrook, chairman of Endelienta by email [email protected]

If you have questions about the role, please do not hesitate to email [email protected]

Please keep your CV to one page in length and the supporting letter to a maximum of two pages. Please make sure that you give an email address for each of your two referees.

Closing date for applications: 30th October Longlisting and shortlisting: weeks beginning 2nd and 9th November Candidates called to interview: 16th November Interviews and appointment: 26th November Successful applicant starts: 4th January 2021

About Endelienta

Overview

Endelienta welcomes close to 5000 participants and audience members to St Endellion and other occasional local venues in its year-round programme to promote the arts and spirituality in North Cornwall. In addition to its 20 concerts per year, the annual programme includes the increasingly prestigious North Cornwall Book Festival, a monthly poetry group and book club, community outreach projects (such as the monthly Make Club (a creative activity club for young families) the recent Music and Memories project for those with dementia, and extensive work in and with schools), art exhibitions, and the Annual Residency for three emerging artists from different disciplines. A very important strand of the programming is the Reflective programme, which attracts attendances between 20 and 200 for quiet days, study days and workshops - for which the prebendaries, Professor Paul Fiddes and Archbishop Rowan Williams, are a particular draw.

The recent Hall Project raised over £600,000 to develop the facilities at St Endellion. The new hall was opened in October 2019 and, even before the Covid-19 lockdown, had already started to reach out to the community to widen participation and attract the hard to reach. The St Endellion campus also benefits from the Stone Barn and Farmhouse owned by the St Endellion Festivals Trust which, in addition to providing a domestic base for the Trust’s music festivals, also offers year-round residential facilities for up to 25 people and valuable space for daytime workshops and meetings.

It is important to reflect on the particular qualities of St Endellion which make it a place of pilgrimage to which people return year on year. The light in the church and its special acoustic give the building a particular – spiritual – welcome. Indeed many of the Festival’s participants describe it as their spiritual home. Archbishop Rowan Williams has nominated St Endellion Church as his favourite English church, which has been described as a place where the veil between heaven and earth can be very thin. Very recently, a performer reported that the building “gives the music back to you.”

Endelienta has worked hard to evolve in such a way that it can contribute significantly to the North Cornwall Cluster of Churches’ mission for the arts and spirituality and the spiritual life of St Endellion’s faith community. However, as a free-standing charity, it is a separate entity and, to ensure its wider inclusiveness and to protect its public sector funding, it adopts an implicit interpretation of the concept of ‘spirituality’, as distinct from an explicit Christian one.

How Endelienta came about

St Endellion proudly hosts two classical music festivals each year which attract 400 festival participants and close to 4000 audience members. The Summer Festival, founded in 1958, and the Easter Festival, founded in 1974, have both gained national and international reputations for the quality of their soloists and their very high standards of performance. For both of these festivals, a mixture of talented amateur and professional singers and instrumentalists comes to Cornwall from far and wide to rehearse and perform for no fee, purely for the love the music and the place – 13 concerts in as many days in each Summer Festival and 9 concerts in each Easter Festival. The concerts sell out, with audiences returning year after year, many of them from a considerable distance; there are over 500 subscribing Friends of the Festivals.

In 2008, Bill Ind, the then , recognising the richness of the musical tradition at St Endellion, put forward the idea of making St Endellion a centre for the arts and spirituality. St Endellion’s unique status in the diocese as a collegiate church, with its (then) 4 prebendaries, and its potential to act as a North Cornwall satellite of the cathedral, akin to St Germans in East Cornwall, gave his idea particular force. Three years later Endelienta came into being as a charity, with the Diocese, the St Endellion Parochial Church Council and the St Endellion Festivals Trust as its founding members, with a brief to build a year-round programme for the arts and spirituality and to develop the St Endellion campus as a cultural hub for North Cornwall, an area acknowledged by Arts Council as being in need of investment.

Since 2011, the facilities at St Endellion have been developed, with the Stone Barn being made into a residential building, part of the rectory lawn being acquired, and the St Endellion Hall being extended and modernised, and Endelienta’s programme has grown and grown, with the annual North Cornwall Book Festival, launched in 2013, gaining an increasingly positive reputation.

Endelienta’s Purpose, Aims and Values

Endelienta’s purpose is to promote the arts and spirituality in North Cornwall.

The charity:  strives for high quality in all of its activities; to reach beyond the ordinary.  aims to build the size and diversity of its audiences; seeking always to be inclusive.  consistently looks for diversity and inclusiveness in its programming.  wants to encourage talent and creativity, particularly among young people.  is itself a partnership; it values collaboration and partnerships with other cultural providers in North Cornwall to achieve these aims.

The 5 strands of Endelienta’s annual programme

Endelienta has evolved 5 key streams of activity, albeit much disrupted since March 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic:

1) the Book Festival and associated literary activity: Under the artistic leadership of novelist Patrick Gale, Endelienta is proud to host the North Cornwall Book Festival. It attracts a rich range of authors , such as Tessa Hadley, Jackie Kay, Michael Morpurgo, Raynor Winn, Maggie O’Farrell, Anne Enright, and Kate Clanchy, who come together to create a small and intimate festival which attracts audiences from further and further afield. Half of the Festival is devoted to younger readers from schools across the county. Literature also makes a regular appearance in our reflective days, in occasional spoken word performances, at our monthly book club and poetry club meetings and in residential workshops. The 2020 Festival had to be postponed; a programme of festival videos is being presented on the Endelienta website.

2) the concert programme: We put on one or two music concerts each month, including classical, jazz, world and folk music. The classical concert programme ranges from early music to modern, and includes solo vocal and instrumental recitals, visiting choirs, small instrumental ensembles and chamber orchestras. St Endellion has its own grand piano. The programme has featured artists of national and international renown, such as Mark Padmore, Andrew Watkinson, the Dante Quartet, and Sheku Kanneh-Mason. At least a third of the classical concerts feature young artists, including Endelienta Baroque, the Cornwall Youth Choir, and the Truro Cathedral choir, who also involve local school children.

3) the visual arts exhibition programme: Art Exhibitions take place in the St Endellion Hall. The exhibitions show two- and three-dimensional work of outstanding quality by selected artists. Two of St Endellion’s art exhibitions have also been exhibited in Truro Cathedral.

4) the Reflective Day programme: Each of our reflective days takes a theme that explores spirituality in modern day life. Led by eminent thinkers and inspirational leaders, including St Endellion prebendaries Archbishop Rowan Williams and Professor Paul Fiddes, the reflective days, enable people to come together, take stock and connect with their inner selves.

5) the Take Part programme; This programme includes the annual cross-arts residency, the Make Club, Residential workshops, and community projects, such as Music and Place. Endelienta wants to make the arts more accessible for people who are socially or rurally isolated or have limited access to transport. The annual residencies for composers, writers and visual artists, invites emerging talents to come and work on the St Endellion campus and be inspired by the location.

Endelienta as an organisation

All of these programmes rely on the infrastructure of marketing and publicity, box office, financial and business management, fund-raising, the recruitment and management of volunteers and paid part-time staff, and programme and event management, including catering and the bar.

Endelienta relies heavily on its 60 or so volunteers. It is currently in transition to a new staffing structure for its 3 part-time paid staff; an artistic director / general manager is due to be recruited for January 2021 to join the Marketing Coordinator and Outreach/Take Part Coordinator who are already in place.

The organisation is governed by a board of 9 directors, representing the three founder partner organisations and the local community. The Rector of St Endellion has an ex officio seat on the Board.

Endelienta has been financially independent since its inception and has been considered sufficiently successful and important to the cultural and artistic life in North Cornwall to attract not only financial support from Arts Council England but also from Cornwall Council and Falmouth University. Endelienta and the Music Festivals make a significant financial contribution each year to St Endellion PCC.

Endelienta’s future

The Covid-19 pandemic brought a halt to Endelienta’s programme although the Make Club, the Book Club and the Poetry group continued online. The Book Festival is releasing a set of videos throughout the autumn and a reduced programme of concerts to socially distanced audiences has now restarted in the church. The completion of the terrace behind the hall now makes it possible to mount outdoor performances to audiences on the lawn and a successful inaugural concert took place at the end of August. Currently, it is difficult to see how long it will take to find a new momentum and to discover what new directions may need to be taken. However, the evidence of the last 9 years shows that there is a year-round demand for the arts and spirituality in North Cornwall and that there is plenty of room for audience development. Performers and audiences alike want to return to experience the inspirational qualities of St Endellion Church. The rich reputations of the festivals for classical music, and now for literature, are well established within and beyond Cornwall.

There is still huge potential to extend the range of Endelienta’s programme to promote the arts and spirituality to existing and new audiences. Once the newly refurbished St Endellion Hall is fully fitted out, it will be able to develop community dance classes; professional dance residencies; a more extensive spoken word programme to complement the Reflective Day programme; performances for families; and outdoor performance, using the Hall’s new terrace and the lawn behind. Further ahead, there is the possibility of further extending the residential use of the campus. If the remaining building on the campus, the Old Dairy, is developed with en- suite accommodation and studio space, longer residencies will be possible for visual artists, writers and composers, and for small group retreats.

See below: Appendices: 1. The Endelienta Wheel 2. Endelienta Structure

Appendix 1:

The Endelienta Wheel

Appendix 2: Endelienta Structure

Diocese Art/ Exhibitions

ENDELIENTA Book/ PCC Club Book/ Festival

Poetry/ SEFTe Club

Take/Part/ Reflective Days Concerts Residencies

Make/ Easter/ Summer Club Festival Festival/ Outreach/ Projects/