What can we do to help you?
Place has a powerful impact upon our quality of life, and in these tough financial times good place making also makes economic sense. Great places where people want to live, work and visit are the foundations of what is becoming known as the 'big society'. Beam has over 20 years’ experience supporting regeneration, renaissance, and cultural projects in urban and rural towns, parks and neighbourhoods, housing schemes, schools, colleges, mixed use developments, and hospitals.
Beam are able to support you, our civic leaders, built environment professionals and communities to make better places. But importantly we can help you to do more for less, as our highly skilled staff and associates are able to deliver our services and programmes where they are needed with added value.
Our new brochure (click here) provides details of our services, these include:
- Community consultation
- Skills development for professionals
- Learning projects for schools, colleges and universities
- Public art, street transformations, celebratory fetes and events
- Good practice study trips to inspirational buildings and spaces
- Design awareness and training for local authorities and other groups
- Design Review services
- Public realm and public art strategies
- Consultation workshops on new and renovated school buildings
- Facilitated visits to the Orangery and beam Gallery exhibitions
- Workshops on planning, design, marketing, community engagment, funding, and sustainability
- Conferences and event management and marketing
- Research
Please contact us to discuss your individual requirements.
Our Services
Public Art Commisions
We have wide experience in mananging public art commisions, and are able to support you from strategy creation, through artist selection to the installation of the art work.
Schools for the Future
We offer a range of activities to support schools undergoing new designs or renovation . This ranges from inspirational trips to artist led consultations with students and the wider community.
Public Consultation
We offer creative consultation to developers and others engaging with communities about the design of public places and spaces - this includes being accredited to run CABE Spaceshaper.
Event Management
We can support you with the management of events - whether this be a street festival, a major conference, a seminar, lecture or workshop.
Beam Partners
Beam Partners offers you the opportunity to support and advise Beam, whilst enriching and developing your own staff, making useful contacts and connections within the field of regeneration and the built environment, and raising your organisation's creative profile. For more information contact Frances Smith.
Design Awareness & Training
We deliver bespoke courses for local authority members and officers to provide them with the tools and knowledge to help raise the quality of design in their local area.