ROSIE WATT

Offering creative management, producing and fundraising with expertise in rural touring, dance, and community.

A mental health and interpersonal wellbeing advocate.

I believe everyone from all walks of life should be able to experience creativity and culture and all the benefits they bring. My interests and ambitions lie in creating a healthy, safe, equitable world through creativity and imagination.

About Rosie

  • Offering creative management, producing and fundraising with expertise in rural touring, dance, and community engagement.

    Supporting everything from small scale community projects and tours, to NPO applications, partnership development, evaluation & more.

    Over the past few years I have helped raise approximately £1m from Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation funding, Lottery Projects, DYCP, ACE access support, Emergency Grants, Cultural Recovery Funds, Community Foundation, TNL Community Fund, Four Nations International Funding, further commissions (Bradford Producing Hub, Kala Sangam, The Lowry Development Fund +) and Trust and Foundations, on behalf of artists and community organisations.

    Artists & organisations have included Yuvel Soria, Sandrine Monin, Kasia Witek, Bobak Walker, Sandra Passirani, Empowerment Charity & many more.

  • Working part-time, I co-manage Cheshire Rural Touring Arts (CRTA).

    CRTA programme & present a diverse range of live professional performances to communities across Cheshire in village halls, community centres, libraries, educational organisations & more. CRTA support arts development initiatives that contribute to the strategic plans of Cheshire West and Chester Council and Cheshire East Council and to increase access to the arts for the local community.

  • “The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.”

    Through a postgraduate in Counselling & experience as a Samaritans volunteer, I have developed a greater understanding of the UK’s mental health & life experiences, and I’ve seen how important empathy, communication and listening skills are.

    This experience has influenced my work in the creative industries; offering a safe, person-centred, reflective practice.

  • Leeds Beckett: PGCert Interpersonal and Counselling Skills (2021)

    National Arts Fundraising School (2018)

    Trainee Producer - This Way Up Programme, The Empty Space (2014-15)

    Newcastle University: MA Arts, Business, & Creativity (2014)

    BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance – First (2012)

  • Born in Blackpool, I have lived & worked all over the North of England (Newcastle, Leeds, Bradford, Cleveleys/Blackpool).

    You’ll currently find me in the beautiful rural countryside of North Wales (not too far from Chester).

  • Honesty - Speaking the truth, taking action in a way that is genuine and sincere, and taking responsibility for one's feelings and actions.

    Kindness - being caring, generous, supportive and compassionate to people. Doing good deeds.

    Fairness - Adhering to principles of justice, not letting biases get in the way of decisions about others. Giving each person a chance.

    Love of learning - mastering new skills, topics, and bodies of knowledge, whether on one's own in "the school of life" or more formally in institutions or training programs.

    Spirituality - finding meaning, purpose, and calling in life, relationships, and the world.

    (Via Institute on Character - Character Strengths report)