What we are doing now

Current Priority

• Writing and collating new resource documents for members and publishing to this site
• Increasing FAE Membership
• Lobbying for revisions in the 2003 Licensing Act
• Developing examples of "best practice" papers for folk in education projects
• Preparing the first FolkArts England annual report
• Planning 2008 Training, Focus Days and AFO Conference
• Researching funding for an online directory resource

Ongoing priority

• Maintaining the All Party Parliamentary Group for Folk Arts
• Lobbying the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to achieve a re-write of the Events Safety Guide
• Engaging in Voluntary Arts UK-wide research
• Discussing the place of Folk in UK Tourism
• Bombarding the media to improve awareness and acceptance as Folk
• Constantly servicing our membership by phone, email and at meetings

Long Term Planning

• Investigating the involvement of “Folk” in the Cultural Olympiad
• Working on FAE “Vision” for the future of FAE's work