Flying Geese Consultancy

21/08/2025

Are you based in or do you have networks in Manchester?

Would you like to visit Operation Ouch!? Brains, Bogies and You at the Science Museum with your family?

If you answered yes, we want to hear from you!

The Science and Industry Museum with Flying Geese Cultural Consultancy are looking for families (parents, carers and grandparents with children under 12) to help shape future exhibitions. Share your thoughts during an accompanied visit or focus group — and be compensated for your time. Get free entry to the exhibition for your family and shopping vouchers up for grabs from £15 - £40 per family.

✅ Enjoy the exhibition
✅ Tell us what you think
✅ Get creative
✅ Help improve access and fun
🎁 Receive shopping vouchers as a thank you!

Register your interest here: https://www.surveyhero.com/c/OperationOuch

13/09/2024

John’s adventures in Cheshire continues yesterday with a trip to Port Sunlight* to meet

The village was built in 1888 for workers at Lever Brothers’ local soap factory and includes 900 listed buildings.
It was also used as a regular filming location for Peaky Blinders.

*Sunlight is not guaranteed, however.

07/08/2024

Sending good wishes to Theatre Porto for the first day of their Topsy Turvy Festival - five days of family-friendly spectacular arts celebration in Whitby Park in Ellesmere Port. We'll be there from tomorrow looking for Scoops of Inspiration for the future of Ellesmere Port from our very own ice cream van https://theatreporto.org/topsyturvy24/

Theatre Porto

Theatre Porto's spectacular arts celebration returns to Whitby Park in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, from Wednesday 7th to Sunday 11th August 2024

28/06/2024

Read all about the benefits of creating a local network when it comes to planning your festival social media campaign in the last of our top 5 tips for festival social media this summer.

Discover all our top tips here and share what you've found works well for you too! https://flyinggeese.co.uk/toolkits/festival-social-media/

24/06/2024

Congratulations to Marianne Barraclough on her new venture as

Executive Director at More Music from July. Also, a huge congratulations for her 19 years at Sinfonia Viva as Deputy Chief Executive where she has been pivotal in creating wonderful partnerships, projects and performances across the East Midlands and beyond with communities. Her work has meant that the wonderful orchestral work of Sinfonia Viva has reached many, many people for them to enjoy and benefit from.

We hope our paths cross again; John Holmes, Miri Birch and the rest of the Flying Geese team have really enjoyed working with her.

21/06/2024

Find out how celebrating others can boost your festival awareness and create all year round content - all in one top tip. Number 4 on our Top Tips for Festival Social Media.

Read more here: https://flyinggeese.co.uk/toolkits/festival-social-media/

14/06/2024

We've talked about planning ahead for a festival campaign to save time during busy on-sale and festival periods. But what else can you do to prepare if an event isn't selling as fast as you'd like or just isn't getting as much attention as you'd hoped for.

Head to our 5 top tips for festival social media to find how to give your posts a leg up if needed
https://flyinggeese.co.uk/toolkits/festival-social-media/

07/06/2024

Give your posts more organic reach.

There are people who you know will already be interested in your festival events. Find out how we recommend how to reach these people to let them know that you exist and that you have something that will interest them

Head to our website to find discover all our festival social media tips https://flyinggeese.co.uk/toolkits/festival-social-media/

31/05/2024

As you know, social media management requires dedication to organisation. Hear what our top tip for getting organised, prepared and ahead of the game is when it comes to festival social media.

Also, we have a free spreadsheet template that you can download that we have developed over years of festival work and would be a good starting point to get organised ahead of your event. Head over to our website to find out more and download this free resource. https://flyinggeese.co.uk/toolkits/festival-social-media/

28/05/2024

Portsmouth City Council is the custodian for an outstanding international collection of material relating to the life, work and writing of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Conan Doyle Collection received Arts Council in August 2021 for a project called The Detectives, giving cultural and creative skills and opportunities to autistic, neurodiverse and vulnerable adults.

We recently facilitated a Theory of Change workshop and the development of an evaluation framework to underpin our methodology. Data was captured through highly adapted (to suit the neurodiversity of the participants) questionnaires, one to one conversations, workshops, process mapping exercises, training logs, catalogue reviews and project management assessments.

Read more about our evaluation methods for this project https://flyinggeese.co.uk/evaluating-impact/the-detectives/