Nick Ewbank Associates

is a consultancy firm providing expert advice to a range of clients on arts projects and arts-led regeneration

Its Principal, Nick Ewbank, was the founding Director of the arts and regeneration charity The Creative Foundation and, with Roger De Haan, steered the ground-breaking project to revitalise Folkestone, from its inception in 2001 until 2010. Prior to his work in Folkestone, Ewbank was the Director of Devon's leading arts centre, Exeter Phoenix Arts and Media Centre, for seven years. From 1988 to 1994, he was Director of the Old Bull Arts Centre in Barnet, North London, establishing its reputation at the time as one of London's most innovative arts centres.

Specialisms

  • cultural visioning and planning
  • area regeneration strategies and masterplanning
  • construction briefing and project management
  • community engagement
  • festivals and events management
  • Higher Education planning and development
  • preparation of funding bids
  • third sector governance / management
  • joined-up thinking

Current and past clients include:

  • Arts Council England
  • Canterbury Christ Church University
  • Living Architecture
  • The Roger De Haan Charitable Trust
  • University of Exeter
  • University of Kent

Adventures In Regeneration

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About the book

In some quarters, urban regeneration through the arts has come to be seen as a panacea - something that will, almost miraculously, cure all the ills of communities afflicted by years of decline. At the other extreme, there are those who argue that the arts have no place on the battlefields of regeneration: in economic development; in enhancing health and well-being and in tackling social issues.

In Adventures in Regeneration Nick Ewbank provides new fuel for this debate by offering an illuminating history of the first decade of the ground-breaking experiment in regeneration through the arts that began in Folkestone - a medium-sized town at the south east tip of Britain - at the start of the new millennium. Focusing in turn on the physical regeneration of Folkestone's Old Town, the transformation of Folkestone's educational landscape and the development of the town's cultural life (including the launch of the Folkestone Triennial), Adventures in Regeneration sheds light on the personalities of some of the key individuals involved in the project, including the philanthropist Roger De Haan, whose personal quest it has become.

Featuring many colourful, informative and often entertaining images, Adventures in Regeneration is a thoroughly readable and visually fascinating account of a cliff-top town brought back from the brink.

"Interwoven with a cogent description of many complex layers of local and national context, Ewbank's account provides an important record of how the much-touted (but usually elusive) ideal of 'urban regeneration' through the arts was to emerge, in Folkestone, as a reality." Dr Stephen Deuchar CBE, Director, The Art Fund

Adventures in Regeneration by Nick Ewbank (Published June 2011, NEA Publishing; 135 pages).