Steve Garrett (CV)

35 Beauchamp Street, Riverside, Cardiff CF11 6AX
Tel: 029 2022 7982; 0781 4770450; e: culturalconcerns@onetel.com

Education:

2009: MSc, Regeneration Studies; Cardiff University, U.K.
1998: B.A. (Hons. 1st), Communication Arts and Media; Leeds University, U.K.
1961 - 1968, Merchant Taylors’ School, Crosby, Liverpool, UK. (2 A levels: Physics, Maths).

Current Main Employment:

- Chair/Director – RCMA Social Enterprise Ltd. (riversidemarket.org.uk); overseeing the management and development of Cardiff’s three farmers’ markets; delivering a range of food and health related outreach and education programmes in the local community; providing advice and support to farmers’ markets and local food initiatives; and developing the RCMA Market Garden, an intensive local horticulture enterprise.

- Running Cultural Concerns, a small freelance company with a focus on linking creative activities with community regeneration. My work combines organising projects; international cultural collaborations and exchanges; community arts policy development; participatory arts project design and management; arts project fundraising; financial planning; project monitoring and evaluation; lecturing and training in community arts project management.

Other Current Occupations:

Applicant Advisor, Local Food Programme - Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts.
Skillshare Mentor, Making Local Food Work programme - Plunkett Foundation
‘Role Model’ Mentor – Wales Co-operative Centre, Social Enterprise Support Project
Community Reporter – BBC Radio Wales
Freelance Project Manager/Consultant – Wales Arts International

Voluntary Positions Currently Held:

Member - Food Standard Agency’s Advisory Committee for Community Engagement
Regional Panel Member , U.K. Sustainable Development Commission.
Member - Welsh Assembly Government, Quality of Food Task and Finish Group
Member - Welsh Assembly Government, Agrifood Partnership Forum (S.E. Wales)
Member - Cardiff Food and Health Strategy Development Group
Consultant Member – the Foundation for Local Food Initiatives
Chair - Riverside Community Market Association
Vice-Chair (formerly Chair): Wales Association of Community Artists
Coordinator and Chair: Riverside Festival Association.
Board Member – Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; Chair, Chapter Trading Ltd
School Governor – Severn Primary School, Cardiff.

Selected Past Positions:

Arts Council of Wales (ACW): Council Member, April 2000 – April 2004
Commission Member: Commission for Community Music Activity -
International Society of Music Educators (ISME), June 1998 – June 2004
Board Member: Sound Sense (Development Agency for Community Music), 2001 - 2003
Chair: South Riverside Regeneration Forum, 1999 – 2001

Examples of Recent Project Work:

2005 - 2007: Designed and delivered “Organising Community Events” course for Welsh Refugee Council clients and for YMCA Community College, Cardiff

January/ February 2005: Delivered “Fundraising and Proposal Writing” workshops for the British Council to artists and arts organisations in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi.

2004/2005: Visiting Lecturer, University of Glamorgan (Arts In The Community MA course) and Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (Community Arts MA course).
2002/2003 : Visiting Lecturer, University of Limerick (MA course in Community Music).

July 2002 – December 2003: Event Manager, ‘A Sense of Place’ – major four-day British Council sponsored international conference looking at the role of the arts and culture in relation to the integration of displaced people and asylum seekers.

Hobbies and Interests:

Alongside my passion for local food , I have remained involved with playing music - as a singer-songwriter and in a duo with a Japanese Koto player and ceilidh band; as a music director and musician for groups such as No Fit State Circus and Rubicon Dance; and as a musician with the Brazilian dance group Patua Dance. I have dual UK/Canadian citizenship) and speak Spanish, French and Slovak moderately well, and some Welsh. I enjoy walking, gardening and DIY. I am currently renovating a vintage VW camper, and kept busy by my six-year old son. I’m experienced in all aspects of IT communication and Internet use and I’m an enthusiastic Apple Mac user.

Academic Referees:

Dr Gillian Bristow
Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography
School of City and Regional Planning
Cardiff University
Room 1.54, Glamorgan Building
+44 (0)29 208 75388
BristowG1@Cardiff.ac.uk

Prof Kevin Morgan
Professor of Governance and Development
CPLAN
Cardiff University
Room 2.66, Glamorgan Building
+44 (0)29 208 76090
MorganKJ@Cardiff.ac.uk

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