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2018 DIARY JUST £10 UNTIL OCTOBER!ORDER FORMQTYDIARY, £10 (UNTIL 30/09/17) DIARY, £12.80 (FROM 01/10/17)P&P (FOR UP TO 2 DIARIES)*INCLUDEDTOTALMR/MRS/MISS:ADDRESS: POSTCODE:TEL.NO:SOCIETY:SIGNATURE:FULL NAME OF CARD HOLDER: I ENCLOSE A CHEQUE FOR £Order at retail.theartssociety.org*Please return to: NADFAS Enterprises Ltd, 8 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1DA. For any queries or for postage costs for large orders, email: judith@theartssociety.orgAll prices include VAT. Diaries in stock from end of August, despatched within 14 days subject to availability. CARD NOSECURITY CODE*ISSUE DATEISSUE NOMAESTROEXPIRY DATEVISAMASTER CARDDELTAartists, The World Around Us will provide a high quality arts offer to young people and vulnerable adults, some with profound or multiple disabilities.In New Zealand, ‘Artsplash’ is a week-long festival enabling 8,000 children from Wellington and the Wairarapa area to celebrate the arts. Local societies continue to assist participation in the festival by young people from less advantaged schools. For several years, Edinburgh DFAS has supported students at the Edinburgh College of Art through their bursary scheme. While of great benefit to the recipients during their studies, it stops when they graduate. This year, with sponsorship from charitable trusts, they supported a graduate internship in arts administration. Ruth Bingham-Hamilton, their first intern said: “it has been a valuable way for me to connect more deeply with the cultural fabric of Edinburgh and make contacts across the city.”Grants awarded at a national level through the Patricia Fay Memorial Fund include a bursary for shoemaker Frances Pinnock to study with cordwainers Carréducker, and for pattern cutter Fiona Campbell to buy equipment. Awarded in partnership with the Heritage Crafts Association, they highlight traditional living crafts. HRH the Prince of Wales, as President of the Heritage Crafts Association, said: “Crafts are such a vital part of our British heritage and I have always been passionately concerned to promote the best aspects of our country’s traditions – and, equally importantly, to enable these highly specialised skills to be transferred from one generation to the next.”Meanwhile, Children’s Trails continue to be made by our societies to guide young people around local places of worship, encouraging them to engage with local architecture and cultural heritage. Members give their time to research and create these trails.We thank and take pride in all volunteers involved with the many imaginative ways of delivering our charitable objectives for the next generation – promoting engagement with the arts and our cultural heritage for all. “ WE THANK AND TAKE PRIDE IN ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS” JUNE ROBINSON, NATIONAL CHAIRMAN*LAST 3 DIGITS ON BACK OF CARD1 Painting exhibited at a Koestler Trust exhibition, which won an award funded by Malvern Hills DFAS2 Mural being created at a refugee centre in Málaga2The Arts Society ReviewAutumn 2017SOCIETIES NEWS