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Standard Committee Report SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 1 MARCH 2017 TAIGH CHEARSABHAGH REVENUE FUNDING 2017/18 Report by Director of Development PURPOSE OF REPORT To consider an application for annual revenue funding from the Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust. COMPETENCE 1.1 There are no legal, financial or other constraints to the recommendations being implemented. 1.2 Provision exists within the Development Department’s Arts Revenue Budget. SUMMARY 2.1 Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre is a nationally acclaimed and internationally renowned cultural hub. It provides valuable cultural services for the local community and, to visitors to the Uists. 2.2 At its meeting in June 2014, it was agreed that the Comhairle agree to provide a formal letter of support to Taigh Chearsabhagh to support their bid to Creative Scotland for three year ‘Regular Funding’, and agree in principle to provide a three year revenue funding package to Taigh Chearsabhagh at £19,500 per annum as match funding to support the bid to Creative Scotland. 2.3 Following an extremely competitive bidding process Creative Scotland awarded Taigh Chearsabhagh £305,000 in three year Regular Funding for 2015/18. An average of £101,667 per year and an increase of 0.7% on their annual (CS) funding award in 2014/15. 2.4 The interim review of the Funding Agreement for 2016/17 has concluded that Taigh Chearsabhagh has satisfactorily met their Funding Agreement requirements and has successfully delivered a wide ranging and vibrant programme of cultural and creative activity which provides significant economic and social benefits for the Outer Hebrides. RECOMMENDATION 3.1 It is recommended that, subject to the satisfactory conclusion of a one year Funding Agreement for 2017/18, the Comhairle approve funding of £19,500 to Taigh Chearsabhagh from the Arts Revenue budget, and the repayment of the sum £3,713 due under a re-payable grant agreement for the Building for the Future Capital Project. Contact Officer: Elsie Mitchell, Arts Development Officer Tel 01851 822 695 Appendices: 1. Arts & Heritage Programme 2017/18 2. Income and Expenditure 2017/18 3. Economic Impact Summary 2016/17 4. Local Collaborators 2016/17 Background Papers: Report to Sustainable Development Committee 10 February 2016 BACKGROUND 4.1 Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre in Lochmaddy is a community based Trust, established as a partnership in 1995 between the Uists Artists’ Association (UAA) and Comann Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath (CEUT - North Uist Historical Society). 4.2 Taigh Chearsabhagh have developed an ambitious strategy for 2013-2020, titled “Our Place in the World”. This articulates the organisation’s vision to be: “A Museum and Arts centre that is recognised locally, nationally and internationally as a place where culture, creativity and talent are celebrated and supported; where the development and promotion of the heritage, language and creativity of these islands is at the centre of everything we do; where access to our programme and education provision is facilitated to the greatest degree possible; where our organisation is recognised as one that supports and extends the creative and cultural economy of the Outer Hebrides; where we support the well-being and stability of the local community and environment; our organisation is confident, resilient, relevant and sustainable.” 4.3 Over a 21 year period significant public capital funds have been invested to create the physical resource that exists today. Taigh Chearsabhagh, a derelict “listed” building dating from 1741, occupying a prominent position in Lochmaddy, was restored and extended at a total cost of £270,000 in 1995 when the new Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre officially opened. The scope and scale of activities grew and a further extension took place in 2000 with additional capital investment of £550,000. 4.4 The centre now incorporates: three gallery areas, a café, shop, post office, 24 hour public convenience, studio, study area, office spaces, a print workshop and darkroom (used for educational workshops and by artists at reasonable hire rates). It houses the CEUT photo archive, Gaelic books and oral recordings that can all be accessed by the public. Taigh Chearsabhagh is open all year round and offers core community services to the local population. 4.5 The centre continually strives for excellence and as a result embarked on the Building for the Future capital project - a series of phased re-developments and investment in equipment. A total of £241 880 was raised to improve energy efficiency within the building and reduce utility costs (Two 5Kw wind turbines continue to generate approximately £9,000 annually and generate 30% of the electricity requirements for the centre); to increase trading revenue through extending the shop and refurbishing the café; to refurbish the gallery, studio and external spaces in order to bring them up to the standards required to maintain 4 star visitor attraction status; to develop Studio 1 as a high quality digital screening cinema complimented by the creation of a broadcast quality HD digital media resource to help develop the creative industries sector. 4.6 Taigh Chearsabhagh is graded as a 4-Star visitor attraction by Visit Scotland and is an integral part of the tourism product offer to visitors travelling to the Uists. It is one of the busiest visitor attractions in the Outer Hebrides with consistent annual attendance figures of around 30,000 per year. It has also been awarded Full Accreditation status under the national scheme run by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). This means that Taigh Chearsabhagh has met nationally agreed standards on collections care, museum management and services to visitors. 4.7 In addition to Taigh Chearsabhagh’s heritage and arts programmes, Lews Castle College run a Diploma in Art and Design and a BA in Fine Art (BAFA) (Level 1 - with a specific environmental focus) at the Centre. This provides revenue income for Taigh Chearsabhagh from the rent of studio space during term time as well as enhancing the centre’s creative environment. Students in turn benefit from being tutored within a contemporary art space with a continually changing exhibition programme to inspire their creativity. 4.8 The centre is part of an internationally recognised creative cluster of arts venues across Scotland. This recognition has taken many years of consistently innovative and highly regarded arts programming, evidenced by the support that the organisation receives from Creative Scotland. ARTS AND HERITAGE PROGRAMME 5.1 Between 2013 and 2015 Taigh Chearsabhagh collaborated with ATLAS Arts on a unique two-year arts programme for Uist entitled Broad Reach. The ATLAS Arts Director, based in Skye, curated the exhibition programme at Taigh Chearsabhagh and on the ground support was given by a 2 year Arts Programme Assistant post based at Taigh Chearsabhagh. The programme was highly successful and included ‘Are you Locationalized’ - a pan island art work by Joanne Tatham and Tom O Sullivan conceived for GENERATION 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland. The exhibition brought national attention to Taigh Chearsabhagh with features on the BBC, in national newspapers and magazines. The Guardian listed it as one of the top ten outdoor sculptures to view in Europe that summer (2014). In August 2016 media attention was again focused very positively on North Uist and Taigh Chearsabhagh when the project won a prestigious 2016 Art in Public Places Award. 5.2 The curatorial partnership with ATLAS Arts enabled Taigh Chearsabhagh’s Arts Manager to concentrate on setting up UistFilm, a 2 year pilot project to explore the feasibility of a sustainable film and digital media department for Taigh Chearsabhagh. UistFilm has supported creative industry development in Uist offering digital media services to partners including broadcast television production, education providers as well as community and third sector organsiations throughout the area. Projects have included digital animations with Fèis Tìr an Eòrna; ‘Failte’ – Visit Outer Hebrides tourism promotional videos for the destination branding website wwwvisitouterhebrides.co.uk and the welcome display at Stornoway Airport and ‘An Dotair Mor’ - a one hour documentary for BBC Alba telling the story of the legendary North Uist GP Dr Alexander Macleod. More recently UistFilm was commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum to make a short film about Paul Strand’s Tir a Mhuarin photography to coincide with a major Strand retrospective in London; a Gaelic educational drama for Historic Environment Scotland and promotional videos for the Eilean Dorcha Music Festival and The Heb extreme triathlon event. Following a review of the UistFilm Business Plan in 2016 it was decided that without any ongoing or longer-term confirmed commissions UistFilm should scale down to operate when opportunity arises with Andy Mackinnon resuming a full-time Arts Management role. In order that UistFilm can continue to develop digital and film based projects, as a key strand in both Taigh Chearsabhagh’s artistic framework and visual arts programme, it was proposed that when opportunities for significant, large scale projects arise, the organisation should explore opportunities for creative programme assistants or apprentices to backfill into curatorial roles to support Andy Mackinnon to use his extensive skills in this field to deliver these projects. 5.3 With the conclusion of the partnership with ATLAS Arts in December 2015 and the continuing development needs of Uist Film, Taigh Chearsabhagh operated with an interim staffing structure for part of 2016. To alleviate this issue, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and the Comhairle agreed an additional funding package to enable the appointment of a team of both strategic and operational staff from An Lanntair to provide practical support to Taigh Chearsabhagh across its business, heritage and arts programme. The An Lanntair team is led by its Chief Executive and includes individuals with marketing, visual arts and education expertise. A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is in place for one year ending in February 2017.
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