FREELANCE BRIEF - COMMUNITY PRODUCER

1. About Museum of (MoH)

Founded in 2015, Museum of Homelessness (MoH) is a community driven social justice museum, created and run by people with direct experience of homelessness. MoH tackles homelessness and housing inequality by amplifying the voices of its community through research, events, workshops, campaigns and exhibitions. MoH also provides direct support – bursaries, mentoring, training and practical support – to its community members. Together we collect and share the art, history and culture of homelessness & housing inequality to change society for the better. Together we find hope in deeply divided and difficult times.

2. The Project – Outsiders Then and Now

MoH is recruiting for a freelance community producer to join the team from April 2020 to April 2021 to support delivery of the National Lottery Heritage Funded project ‘Outsiders Then and Now.’ This project will explore the heritage of grassroots movements in the homeless and LGBTIQ+ communities since the 1960s in order to inspire change today. During this period, MoH will initially be developing new activity over two sites in : Fire Station in partnership with Queerseum hosted by the Outside Project and a new weekly direct access Solidarity Space for people who are street homeless in Old Street in partnership with Streets Kitchen and Islington Council. The project will finish with creative outputs across the borough of Islington, designed and created by our community members. The Community Producer will support this activity throughout 2020.

Activity and Outputs Venue People April 2020 →→→ →→→→→→ →→ →→→→→→ →→→April 2021 Weekly solidarity drop ins for Vibast Streets Kitchen crew, people experiencing street Centre Old Islington Council (various homelessness Street teams), project volunteers, people currently experiencing street homelessness April 2020→→→ → August 2020 New exhibition and public The Outside Queerseum crew, The programme inspired by the Project’s Outside Project crew, heritage of activism in the Community project volunteers inc LGBTIQ+ and homeless Centre at shelter guests, activist communities Clerkenwell groups in Fire Station Fire Station including LGSM, African Rainbow Family. September 2020 →→→ → → end March 2021 Creative outputs across Various Queerseum crew, The borough of Islington, some venues: Outside Project crew, public realm, some in various StreetsFest, Streets Kitchen crew, indoor venues. Islington project volunteers inc Town Hall shelter guests, artists, and public Islington Council (various realm. teams)

The project will be overseen by MoH co-founders Matt Turtle. The community producer will work with Matt, other members of MoH community and project partners to support on all areas of the above including supporting community members, programming planned activities, supporting on comms and marketing and other administrative tasks.

3. What’s involved – Scope of role

This brief would suit a freelance producer with an interest in joining a creative community of people who are committed to making social change through direct work with people, campaigning and creative projects. The project will be fast paced, intense and varied, but also very meaningful. The brief would suit someone with experience of producing cultural or creative projects with a range of partners, managing volunteers and/or working directly with people who have been or are homeless. Due to the nature of our work, the project spans community organising, homelessness, social justice work and cultural producing. The key skills we are seeking (outlined in table below) are related to cultural or other producing and we will offer training and support related to the homelessness aspects of the work should the successful freelancer require this. This could be a good opportunity for a person from the cultural sector who is interested in carrying out more social justice led work. Our organisational values are:

Open, self-aware, empathetic, respectful, questioning and spirited

The contract would suit somebody who feels an affinity with those values.

As always, MoH particularly welcomes people with lived experience of homelessness or housing precarity to work with us, but sharing this information is not required as part of our recruitment processes or as part of working with MoH.

Deliverables Scope of Success looks Useful Useful experience brief like skills Cultural/ Positive and Communicat Experience of building project mutually ion skills relationships with a producing productive Project range of partners. relationships with Managemen selected venues t skills and partners including the local authority, Islington Borough Council.

Cultural/ Setting and Communicat Experience of project meeting targets ion skills, marketing cultural producing for audiences marketing programmes and and participants skills, dealing with press through social media marketing, skills communications and press.

Cultural/ Cost effective Communicat Experience of project and productive ion skills securing quotes and producing relationships in Project building relationships place with Managemen with external contractors for t skills contractors the project. Cultural/ A range of artists Communicat Experience of project involved in the ion skills recruiting and producing project, Project supporting a range of privileging artists Managemen artists in the delivery with lived t skills of projects. experience of Experience of working homelessness with people from a and/or marginalised oppression due background to gender or sexual orientation. Artists given the support needed to deliver content and run workshops for the project. Community A fulfilled team of Communicat Experience of working producing volunteers ion skills with volunteers in a supporting the Interpersona heritage, community project and l skills and/or homelessness contributing to Volunteer setting different stages managemen during the project t skills eg: 6-10 x volunteers delivering the weekly solidarity drop in. 10 x volunteers working on research and archiving 10 x volunteers working on creative activism

Community A safe and Communicat Experience of co- producing welcoming ion skills ordinating volunteers weekly drop in Interpersona and working with for street l skills partners in a homeless people Volunteer community or during the project managemen homelessness setting. t skills Community A project which is Project Experience of producing well organised, Managemen reporting to funders documented and t skills and working with evaluated. evaluators. Experience of documenting projects in a way which is sensitive to ethics and is collaborative. Experience of working to a set budget and of financial administration systems.

Due to the nature of the project and MoH’s approach to working with people, the above is not a final set of deliverables and is subject to change as the project develops.

Fee and expenses: This contract is offered on a freelance basis between April 2020 and March 2021.

The fee available for this work is £18,000 to include VAT.

The fee is not related to days per week worked, but to deliverables achieved.

We are also able to cover reasonable travel expenses in Zones 1 and 2. We have a budget line for training and counselling support where needed for all members of MoH community. The freelancer will be supported and will report in to Matt Turtle, MoH co-founder. Much of the delivery will be carried out at the two main sites for the project and the freelancer is welcome to use MoH’s office at Clerkenwell Fire Station for desk work.

Applications To apply, please send a proposal detailing why you are interested in this work and how you would approach the work along with a biography and two references:

Matt Turtle Museum of Homelessness [email protected]

The deadline for applications is Wednesday 18th March Interviews will take place on Tuesday 24th March The contract will commence at the beginning of April.

For an informal conversation on the brief please email Matt to arrange a phonecall.

Access and inclusion We are an inclusive museum. If the recruitment process is not accessible for you please contact Matt and we will find a way to apply that works for you. More widely, we are always working to develop access and inclusion - this is core to our work, both creative and practical aspects.

(image: Event signage from Save the Joiners Arms event at the Fire Station.)

Further information on the project, partners and spaces:

Clerkenwell Fire Station has been temporarily converted into a shelter and a community centre, and it has created a much needed and vibrant hub for a number of LGBTQI+ campaigns, migrant-led homelessness groups and other agencies to make use of the space. Working with Queerseum, the community coordinator will contribute to establishing a dynamic museum hub that will explore how history affects our marginalised communities and how we can use it to make social change today. This recent article offers some insights into how the partnership has worked so far.

The Vibast centre is a new community centre space in Old Street that will be home to a new weekly solidarity drop-in on Tuesdays following a public meeting earlier this year. MoH is teaming up with Streets Kitchen to run the weekly drop-in activity for people sleeping rough and in temporary accommodation in Islington from February for at least 6 months. We would like to make relationships with a wide range of people who are street homeless in the Borough. This solidarity drop-in continues our long-standing commitment to offer something practical during the crisis as well as cultural and heritage activity. This activity is being setup throughout February and will have been operating for a few weeks by the time the freelancer starts. This means that preparatory work including risk assessments and planning is completed and the producer will largely work on maintaining and developing the activity in the space with our partners and volunteers. MoH co-founders Matt and Jess Turtle have overall responsibility for the safe running of the space.

END