The Arts Meets Environment Festival Logo
The Arts Meets Environment Festival Logo
The Arts Meets Environment Festival (AMEF) is a three-year programme of arts workshops and festival days to celebrate rural life and culture in the Rockingham Forest by making the best use of the area's natural and cultural resources and improving the quality of life in rural areas.
The project aims, through the media of the arts, to encourage participation and inclusion of young people that are disadvantaged through rural isolation to develop confidence and transferable skills to enhance their present and future lives.
The exact content and structure of the programme will be generated by a Festival Committee of young people, guided by a Project Co-ordinator and supported by a Steering Group consisting of representatives from partnership organisations. The lead organisation is Cultural.Community.Partnerships. (CCP), a charitable trust that manages East Northamptonshire Council's leisure centres and Chichele College, a mediaeval building used for exhibitions and artistic activities, for English Heritage. CCP is responsible for arts, sports and heritage development and runs a number of projects to meet these needs.
The area known as Rockingham Forest, once designated as royal hunting ground for William the Conqueror, is an area of 200 square miles in North-East Northamptonshire, lying between the rivers Welland and Nene and the towns of Stamford and Kettering. It includes most of East Northamptonshire north of, and including, the market town of Thrapston, a number of villages in the Boroughs of Corby and Kettering plus three other market towns - Oundle, Rothwell and Desborough.
AMEF Case Study