Pam Jarvis has particular expertise in stakeholder consultation and analysis of cultural sector policies and strategies to assess how organisations meet their priorities and objectives.
She is experienced in evaluation, social research and culture-led regeneration and has led many seminal evaluation projects to inform major capital development projects including Baltic, De la Warr Pavilion, Pallant House, the Towner, Eastbourne and Turner Contemporary.
She recently completed evaluations of two national projects - MLA’s Take the Lead and Culture 24’s Museums at Night and has developed a series of knowledge exchanges based around consultation with senior cultural opinion formers for Tate Connects, Arts Council and MLA throughout England.
She specialises in strategic marketing planning and development, evaluation of brand and customer experience and orchestrating collaborative projects between arts organisations to provide organisations with the information and evidence needed to develop their customer base.
pam.jarvis@sam-culture.com
Suzy Horne works on research and evaluation across many sam projects.
A long standing member of the sam team, she also contributes to conference and event management, marketing campaigns and database development.
suzy.horne@sam-culture.com
Georgia Browning is the main point of contact for any finance or account enquiries.
She also provides administrative support for many of sam's larger projects and ensures the smooth-running of the office.
georgia.browning@sam-culture.com
Cath Hume is former Director of Smart Audiences, a South East audience development agency. Her strategic audience development initiatives for organisations include: Guildford International Music Festival; The Stables; Milton Keynes; Richmond Theatre; Oxford Contemporary Music; Canterbury Festival; Wycombe Swan Theatre.
Her training programmes, created for arts professionals, aim to develop individual and organisational skills and knowledge in marketing, audience development, research, monitoring and evaluation. She created the national training programme for Arts Council England's Own Art scheme working with visual arts organisations to develop and use strategic marketing skills. Former Board member of Network (now Audiences UK).
cath@cultural-consultancy.co.uk
Tom specialises in research, strategy and policy for the cultural and creative economy at all levels. His focus lies on establishing the climate for creativity, innovation, collaboration, business growth, cultural planning and creative place-making.
Clients range across all areas of the public sector, from national government departments through non-departmental public bodies to local authorities. Key areas of specialism include cultural planning, the wider impacts of culture, creative economy strategy, and competitiveness.
He is particularly interested in identifying how culture and creativity provide different opportunities and challenges in different places: the role of place is a critical factor in economic and cultural policy. Tom has added interest and expertise in issues of diversity and innovation. He is keen to explore how places that are progressively diverse are also highly creative and innovative.