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Derby City Joint Cultural Needs Analysis for the Derby Creative Arts Network and Reimagine Projects Derby city joint cultural needs analysis for the derby creative arts network and reimagine projects Item Type Technical Report Authors Nunn, Alexander; Turner, Royce Citation Nunn, A. and Turner, R. (2020). 'Derby city joint cultural needs analysis for the derby creative arts network and reimagine projects'. Derby: University of Derby. Publisher University of Derby Rights Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Download date 09/10/2021 02:15:43 Item License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624837 Derby City Joint Cultural Needs Analysis for the Derby Creative Arts Network and Reimagine Projects Final Draft 22 February 2020. Prof. Alexander Nunn Dr Royce Turner School of Social Sciences, University of Derby Contents Summary ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Socio-Economic Profile ......................................................................................................................................................... 4 Arts and Culture in Derby ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 Aligning Arts and Culture with Socio-Economic Need ........................................................................................................ 6 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................................... 8 1.1 The Creative Arts Network .................................................................................................................................... 8 1.2 Reimagine .............................................................................................................................................................. 9 1.3 The Needs Analysis ............................................................................................................................................. 10 2 Socioeconomic Trends ................................................................................................................................................... 11 2.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 11 2.2 Population profile ................................................................................................................................................. 11 2.2.1 Key messages ............................................................................................................................................ 11 2.2.2 Overall and Growth ................................................................................................................................... 11 2.2.3 Age Structure ............................................................................................................................................. 11 2.2.4 Ethnicity and Religion ............................................................................................................................... 12 2.3 Socio-Economic profile ....................................................................................................................................... 12 2.3.1 Key messages ............................................................................................................................................ 12 2.3.2 Employment .............................................................................................................................................. 13 2.3.3 Occupational Structure .............................................................................................................................. 15 2.3.4 Economic Inactivity .................................................................................................................................. 17 2.3.5 Deprivation ................................................................................................................................................ 18 2.4 Education and Social Mobility ............................................................................................................................. 20 2.4.1 Key Messages ............................................................................................................................................ 20 2.4.2 Social Mobility: national context .............................................................................................................. 20 2.4.3 Social mobility and Derby ......................................................................................................................... 21 2.5 Health and Wellbeing .......................................................................................................................................... 25 2.5.1 Key Messages ............................................................................................................................................ 25 2.5.2 Adult Health and Wellbeing ...................................................................................................................... 26 2.5.3 Children and Young People’s Health and Wellbeing ............................................................................... 29 2.5.4 Resident Satisfaction ................................................................................................................................. 32 3 Arts and Culture in Derby .............................................................................................................................................. 33 3.1 Key messages ....................................................................................................................................................... 33 3.2 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 34 3.3 The Creative Economy in Derby ......................................................................................................................... 34 3.4 Cultural Provision in Derby ................................................................................................................................. 34 3.4.1 Arts and Cultural Investment .................................................................................................................... 34 3.4.2 Arts Organisations ..................................................................................................................................... 36 3.4.3 Heritage Assets .......................................................................................................................................... 39 3.4.4 Strengths and Weaknesses of Cultural Provision in Derby ....................................................................... 39 3.5 Cultural Participation ........................................................................................................................................... 40 3.5.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 40 3.5.2 Cultural Participation among Adults ......................................................................................................... 40 3.5.3 Cultural Participation among Children and Young People ....................................................................... 54 3.6 Local Cultural and Artistic Satisfaction and preferences .................................................................................... 57 3.6.1 Adults ........................................................................................................................................................ 57 3.6.2 Children and Young People ...................................................................................................................... 63 3.7 Gaps in Participation in Derby ............................................................................................................................. 64 3.8 Outcomes: Activity and Well Being .................................................................................................................... 64 3.8.1 Adults ........................................................................................................................................................ 64 3.8.2 Children and young people ....................................................................................................................... 66 3.9 Hopes for the Reimagine and Creative Arts Network Projects ........................................................................... 72 3.10 Arts, Culture and City Strategies ......................................................................................................................... 73 4 Conclusions: From Needs Analysis to Cultural Plan ..................................................................................................... 74 4.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 74 4.2 Place
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