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Full Name
Kalwant Ajimal FRSA
Website
http://www.asianartsacess.org
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Kalwant Ajimal FRSA Kalwant Ajimal started his career in business and consultancy and has worked for major organisations in the UK and abroad. He has pursued a parallel career in creative arts productions and cultural development consultancy since 1987 when he appointed as an Assessor by the Arts Council of Great Britain to assess applications for its Incentive Funding Scheme. He worked on a dozen or applications with budgets ranging from £10,000 to £12.5 million. Over the years he has become involved in creative productions an executive producer of several new events. He has worked as an independent assessor for applications for funding for the UK Lottery distributors, resulting in the production of over 50 reports including seven major projects for the Arts Council's Capital Services which funds projects with capital funding requirements. Kalwant was also commissioned by arts funders to work on Asian arts audience research and development in 1998. His report is seen as a milestone in diversity based audience research. He has also run his own businesses and established three small companies. Mirador Culture now represents three different areas of action- consultancy, production and campaigning. Asian Arts Access is a specialist Asian arts production house and an arts development agency and finally, K Ajimal Associates Ltd, is a mainstream management consultancy operation which has worked with major clients such as the Audit Commission of England and Wales and local authorities on reviews covering culture, environment and economic development. In February 2003, Tessa Jowell, The UK's Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport appointed Kalwant as Chair of Culture South East, the regional cultural consortium for the South East of England. Further information is available at www.culturesoutheast.org.uk Kalwant was Chair of Culture South East for six years, until March 2008. This weblog presents Kalwant's personal views on creative culture, its development and its celebration. He is also interested in promoting the role of culture as a driver in economic development. Kalwant Ajimal is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars. He writes several blogs and is planning to enrol for a PhD by dissertation

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