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New Deal of the Mind was established in 2009. During 2013 it closed down its website and became a dormant, non-trading, company. NDotM developed from an article written in the New Statesman in January 2009 by Martin Bright, the magazine’s former political editor. In this piece, Martin suggested that cultural elements of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), part of US President Franklin D Roosevelt’s post-Great Depression New Deal, be adapted for the UK today. Martin listed the achievements of the WPA: 3,500 branch libraries created, 4,400 musical performances every month by the Federal Music Project, a collection of oral histories collated which featured the narratives of the last living slaves. He also cited some of WPA’s beneficiaries: Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning and writers such as Saul Bellow, John Cheever and Ralph Ellison. In an effort to devise plans for job creation in the creative sector, NDotM borrows and adapts elements from Roosevelt’s original New Deal. NDotM are pushing for government policy that encourages self-employment and freelance opportunities -- the lifeblood of the creative industries -- such as the reintroduction of something similar to the Enterprise Allowance Scheme. Under Margaret Thatcher’s government, long term unemployed people were offered £40 a week and free business advice while they set up a business. The EAS famously helped figures including Creation Records founder Alan McGee, Superdry’s creator Julian Dunkerton and artists Tracey Emin and Jane and Louise Wilson. New Deal of the Mind has successfully lobbied for the return of the Enterprise Allowance Scheme, and borrows and adapts from both the EAS and WPA to push for government policy that encourages self-employment and freelance opportunities – the lifeblood of the creative industries. We’re working with the Government to help put unemployed people into creative placements in arts and culture and we’re finding spaces across the UK which will become "incubator centres" providing space, support and advice for people setting up on their own. NDotM are also working to create Future Jobs Fund Hubs and NDotM Pop-Up Centres across the UK. The Hubs offer paid employment opportunities in arts and heritage institutions. The NDotM Pop-Up Centres will be entrepreneurship incubators for creative people, providing space as well as career and business advice. == Launch == New Deal of the Mind was launched at Number 11 Downing Street. The event, hosted by Chancellor Alistair Darling and Maggie Darling, attracted an array of cultural leaders, artists, designers, journalists, ministers and politicians. It was described by Lord Puttnam as a "remarkable moment in history". Martin Bright said he was delighted by the support from entrepreneurs, people in the arts and politicians from all parties. "I think this just shows that in extraordinary times, we need to do extraordinary things. We couldn’t do that without the support of such people, all of whom care about and understand the immense part that arts and culture play in our economic, financial and social well being." ''Speakers included'' *Right Hon Andy Burnham MP, then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport *Right Hon James Purnell MP, then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions *Right Hon Ed Vaizey MP, Conservative Party Shadow Culture Minister *Sir Christopher Frayling, Rector of Royal College of Art *Lord David Puttnam, film producer *Dame Jenny Abramsky, Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund *Jude Kelly OBE, Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre *Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC *Sir John Tusa, Chair of the University of the Arts London *Roger Wright, Controller of BBC Radio 3, Director of the Proms 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Deal of the Mind」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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