Create Exchange - Getting Governance Right: Board Basics for Your Organisation

If you run a not-for-profit organisation or are considering starting one, you are legally required to establish a range of governance settings to manage it.

In this webinar, we discuss the minimum requirements for not-for-profit governance in NSW, and the need for organisations to consider fit-for purpose boards, constitutions and financial structures that suit the scale of their operations, their communities and their needs. 

We are joined by Vicki Middleton, from Arts Management Consultancy, Middleton Arts and Adam McGowan from Creative Australia.

Adam will take us through Creative Australia's new, comprehensive online governance resources and top tips for getting better at governance. 

About Vicki Middleton

Middleton Arts

Vicki Middleton is a senior arts manager and strategist who has worked in the performing arts industry for 30 years.  In 1994 Vicki co-founded Frantic Assembly, which quickly established itself as one of the UK’s most critically acclaimed and most widely studied physical theatre companies, touring to over 30 countries across five continents in its first decade, including West End and off-Broadway seasons. On moving to Australia in 2004, Vicki took up post as General Manager of Legs on the Wall, Australia’s leading physical theatre company before being appointed co-CEO/General Manager of Sydney’s much loved Belvoir Theatre in 2006. In 2009 she established Middleton Arts, an Arts Management Consultancy providing a broad range of arts focused expertise to Australia’s performing arts organisations. Middleton Arts specialises in international market development, strategic planning, organisational reviews, governance reviews, venue development and fundraising, with clients from arts, government, and non-arts sectors.  Middleton Arts will relaunch as Middleton Arts & Creative Strategy later this year, offering its existing services and international workshop series.

About Adam McGowan

Director Industry Development, Creative Australia

Adam has responsibility for leading the strategic design, delivery and evaluation of key workforce development programs at Creative Australia. This includes direction of leadership development activities and initiatives, governance capability and investments delivering on priorities in Creative Australia’s Digital Culture Strategy (2021-24). Over the last 15 years Adam has held leadership, sector development, producing and programming roles within the arts and cultural sector spanning work with festivals, producing organisations and local government across artforms. A background in education drives his commitment to supporting the creative workforce to develop the skills, thinking and networks that address sector challenges and unearth innovative solutions.