Blue Print of Northumberland
2024 - 2026
What do you love about Northumberland? This simple question was posed to 100 children and visitors to Bellingham and the surrounding area.
SEN and SEND Engagement
2000 - 2025
A significant strand of VARC’s engagement over its 25 year history focused on providing creative activities and experiences for young children and young adults with additional needs, particularly those on the Autism spectrum.
Community Engagement
2000 - 2025
Over the past 25 years, community engagement through creative activity has been at the heart of VARC’s work.
Newcastle University: LifeWorkArt
2000 - 2025
VARC has enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the Fine Art Department at Newcastle University.
WALK ON: Art-Walking Northumberland,
June – September 2013
WALK ON: Art-Walking Northumberland was a region-wide celebration of walking as both artistic inspiration and lived experience, taking place from June to September 2013.
VARC’s 10th Birthday Celebration
4 - 6 June 2010
VARC marked its 10th anniversary with a special creative and participatory weekend at Highgreen, bringing together past and current artists, local residents, and visitors.
Artists Project Fund
2009 - 2025
Established in 2009, the VARC Artist Project Fund provided artists with financial support to develop new projects or bodies of work that they might not otherwise have been able to realise.
Gathering: Hill Farming – People, Animals and Landscape
2004 - 2005
Gathering was a major collaborative project initiated and developed by VARC, which also secured additional funding to make the project possible.
Local Projects Fund
2000 - 2010
The Local Projects Fund was an annual VARC initiative designed to support creative projects that directly involved artists and benefitted the Tarset, North Tyne, and Redesdale communities.