The results of the project will live on at Seven Stories forming part of their unique children’s stories national archive initiative. The mangers of the project propose that it will have introduced, challenged and trained the children and their teachers in new technologies, broken new ground in arts development and inspired a new generation in one the most ancient and exciting conduits of creative storytelling. It is their intention that the project will be the instigator for inspiring and collecting new artistic works from several satellite artists through their visits to the host organisation and to retrieve artworks that would otherwise be lost. The international component of the project will potentially create long term relationships between the youth organisations, whilst promoting Seven Stories, in a year when England hosts the Olympics and celebrates the anniversary of the achievements in E. Hillary in the Himalayan region.

To enable the project succeed it will be supported and monitored by the Seven Stories educational and management team, additionally mentored by the artist’s local community arts education officer. It is an added support to collaborate with Media Villages Ltd, who will deliver the technological training and support.

The risks inherent in such a project include those of health and safety during interaction with the public or otherwise, the limitations and reliability of any technology (intellectual or physical equipment), the limited time-line in which the goals are to be achieved and the efficiency of the predicted financial costing. The artist is proficient in the production and completion of risk assessments for working in schools and public spaces and he will employ the requirement to complete such forms for all the workshops. All the team are in possession of relevant CRB check certification and are covered by personal and public liability insurance or by the insurance of the host organisations. The artist in this case is additionally equipped and qualified to cope with any disclosers of a significant personal nature, especially when working with children. Andy has placed into both the timetable and budget the possibility of relying on back up hardware or software in any use of technological equipment and he is confident in Mat’s ability to manage this whilst he is ‘in the field’ abroad.

The period of time abroad is limited by the weather in the region and it is optimised to occur in a window between the end of November 2011 and the beginning of March 2012. Andy has attempted to build creative space and periods of intellectual reflection into the timetable by limiting the workshops to once a week in each school and equipping the team with sufficient studio and administration time.

Andy and Seven Stories have successfully worked together before to an award winning standard. Andy originally approached there management team with the concept of ‘Hunting for Fairy Tales of the Yeti’ during 2009, because of their national position as a platform for innovative work related to children’s books and story writing. Andy’s suggestions were received with enthusiasm and a confidence that it is an achievable vision. To support the legacy of the project it is their intension to utilise the documented experiences of the participants, the workshop plans and the results of the ‘hunt’, primarily to enable others to continue their own reading, creative storytelling and writing journeys.

This award winning national centre for children’s books have committed further support via their intention to request that throughout the duration of this project all visiting authors and illustrators to the centre will contribute by submitting their own interpretation of the theme. This will generate an expansive and wonderfully supportive and inspiring resource that can be used in the workshops, the website and the final legacy. As a result of discussions during developmental meetings for this project Seven Stories has been inspired to research the working theme of using different continental cultural interpretations of similar monster-characters, during their appreciation of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad in England.

The artist has personally managed a successful business for many years, which as a result commands the highest market rate for its services. During his career Andy has operated as a lead artist several times, being responsible for the delivery of a diverse program of stimulating activities during the field work stage and the construction, production and promotion of any final stage events and permanent physical legacies. All such projects where Andy has managed the delivery of the arts component have been concluded on time and to budget.

Andy is experienced in producing documentation of the highest standards, which for example is required to be accessible to all and of a substantive quality to represent others in the supply of effective specialist child care within the education system. Andy expects that this project will be co-managed by him and Seven Stories in a similar standard of quality with a full record of events.

The track record of the artists and organisations involved is of a quality that demonstrates their ability to effectively manage the project. We remain committed to presenting open and monitored strategies in these management procedures and will document all meetings that take place. Within the timetable there are regular management and planning meetings and training events. These include those between the Artist and Seven Stories, between the workshop venues and finally between Andy and his artistic and technological mentor.