Creative Enfield Volume 2 APPENDIX B

Creative Enfield Volume2

Enfield’s Arts and Creativity Strategy – Action Plan 2009 -2011

Vision ‘Creative Enfield’ – Local access to high quality arts for everyone and Enfield’s Unique contribution to

Creative Enfield – Borough-wide Arts & Creative Industries Strategy Cultural Services PO Box 58 Civic Centre Enfield EN1 3XJ

1 Cabinet Approval version The Action Plan

Creative Enfield Volume 2 APPENDIX B

‘Creative Enfield’ - Enfield’s Arts and Creativity Strategy – Action Plan 2009-11

Action Plan - this action plan will be reviewed as part of the Service Planning process.

Ref number – Action How will this be achieved? What resources? Timescale Lead Creative Organisation Enfield(CE) /person Aim 1 increase engagement with high quality arts and develop audiences to ensure that everyone has opportunities to reach their potential whether leading as an artist or as a participant.

CE1 Increase involvement of young ♦ develop partnerships with schools Council staff and voluntary 2009/10 All partners. people in the arts and creative to deliver on the Creative Curriculum organisations. 2010/11 Enfield industries. and ‘Learning Outside the Future Jobs Fund. on-going Business Classroom’. WNF. Partnership. ♦ Promote and deliver work Council experience and volunteering Cultural opportunities for young people at arts Team. venues, and creative organisations. Economic ♦ Offer support and encouragement to Development. schools to take up Arts Mark status and progress to Gold; and for pupils to take on Arts Award. ♦ Ensure that all arts projects and local events include opportunities for young people to participate. ♦ Re-launch Millfield Education services -re-brand Millfield Academy. ♦ Re-launch Millfield Youth Theatre Free to participants. ♦ Consult CYP on programming at and for Arts & Events. CE2 Promote and explain the benefits ♦ Make all Head teachers and Staff time. 2009/10 Council of the borough’s Cultural Offer to Governors aware of the Culture Offer Partnership with schools. Cultural

2 Cabinet Approval version The Action Plan

Creative Enfield Volume 2 APPENDIX B

Ref number – Action How will this be achieved? What resources? Timescale Lead Creative Organisation Enfield(CE) /person schools. for the borough ie what the arts and Team. Increase student participation in creative industries sector locally has School the arts. to offer. Improvement ♦ Work with teachers and the School Service. Improvement Service to ensure schools have access to the borough’s Culture Offer. ♦ Provide support for schools to progress the arts in their school and to increase community linkages, eg develop partnerships to achieve schools borough-wide arts festivals.

CE3 Deliver a coordinated programme ♦ Promote borough wide events plan All partners staff time; and 2009/10 Council of events now until 2012 as part and re-brand as part of the Cultural funding bids as necessary. Cultural of the Cultural Olympiad, through Olympiad, working in partnership with Team. partnership working. arts orgs, Met Police, Enfield Homes, and voluntary organisations etc. – ‘Creative Enfield Festival’. ♦ in partnership encourage development of street parties across the borough. ♦ Develop and sustain a carnival for Edmonton in partnership (see below). ♦ Work in partnership with EREC to establish an annual multi-cultural event at Forty Hall using the house and the park to celebrate the cultural diversity of the borough through nature and art – metaphors of the landscape, light, stars, moon, and sun.

3 Cabinet Approval version The Action Plan

Creative Enfield Volume 2 APPENDIX B

Ref number – Action How will this be achieved? What resources? Timescale Lead Creative Organisation Enfield(CE) /person ♦ Poetry competition for families to work on together. ♦ Hindu and Bengali – dance, singing, and language festival with EREC.

CE4 Develop Edmonton Green as a ♦ annual arts and events programme Council and 2009/10 Edmonton cultural centre including the use of empty shop units, St Modwen’s, and other and each Partnership, the architecture of the centre, the partners and year St Modwen walkways, etc as venues for the arts; Funders and the ♦ establish a festival/carnival as part Council of the annual arts and events Cultural team. programme for the Green. ♦ develop partnership working with residents, local arts and cultural organisations, Sustaintable Community team of the Council, the developer St Modwen, Met Police, tenants and housing trusts/associations.

CE5 Commission and present high ♦ commission new works and All partners, staff time, core Annual All partners. quality arts programme across the existing works of high quality to attract funding of organisations and programme Place borough. new audiences. grants. across Shaping & ♦ programme arts venues, parks and Section 106 money borough. Enterprise. open spaces. % for Culture and the Arts Parks ♦ work in partnership with the Service. voluntary sector to share information on programming and marketing to Council maximise our resources and engage Cultural more people. Team.

CE6 Increase access to art collections. ♦ Work with the Libraries and Staff time. 2010/11 Museum

4 Cabinet Approval version The Action Plan

Creative Enfield Volume 2 APPENDIX B

Ref number – Action How will this be achieved? What resources? Timescale Lead Creative Organisation Enfield(CE) /person Museum Team to explore possibilities Grant funds. Service. for opening up access to the Councils Liaise with venues and local fine art collection.. community organisations to host exhibitions or small displays. CE7 Increase facilities and activities ♦Develop partnerships with Libraries. Libraries team and Cultural 2009/10 Libraries to for the arts across the borough ♦ Plan project to establish network of team. lead, through joint working with exhibition spaces and promote as part supported by Libraries. of Cultural Olympiad, the the Cultural Shakespeare Festival, and Inspire team. Mark. Identify funding sources. ♦ Funding bid and implement project 2010/11 or festival of literature.

CE8 Increase the influence of ♦ Develop a strong partnership with , other Theatre 2009/10 Council ChickenShed and other local ChickenShed and other local theatre Groups, Council, and CAB3. 2010/11 Cultural team theatre groups at local level. groups to ensure that their and contribution to the borough’s Culture ChickenShed. Offer, achieves its potential and delivers on this strategy. Aim 2 create the right framework to enable the sustained growth of creative industries to encourage entrepreneurship and to support the economic wellbeing of local communities.

CE9 Provide coordinated marketing ♦ Work in partnership with Visit Enfield, Barnet, and Haringey 2009/10 and promotion of the arts and London and local businesses to Council, on-going Arts cultural programme for the develop the Tourism offer for the Arts Council of , and annual partnership. borough within London and as borough under three strands – Visit London (the tourism targets part of Enfield’s Cultural Tourism - Heritage agency for London). offer. - Arts and Culture - Green tourism.

♦ Produce and promote the first

5 Cabinet Approval version The Action Plan

Creative Enfield Volume 2 APPENDIX B

Ref number – Action How will this be achieved? What resources? Timescale Lead Creative Organisation Enfield(CE) /person illustrated guide – ‘North London Arts Map’ as the basis of the borough’s ‘Culture Offer’. ♦ Produce web based arts, heritage and culture map of Enfield inc. opportunities for live participation ‘Enfield Culture Map’ . ♦ Increase and maintain the web presence for the arts and creative industries sector in Enfield, include history of arts, culture, entertainment in the borough. ♦ produce and distribute ‘What’s On’ marketing materials for Millfield and Forty Hall Arts & Events; and make available on the web; campaign in Our Enfield to encourage engagement. ♦ Undertake market research with arts and cultural organisations to identify partnership potential and projects. ♦ Work in partnership to develop links between cultural providers and venues in the borough, with regional festivals and national campaigns eg Stories of London, National Children’s Art Week, Open House, National Campaign for Drawing, the Big Dance, etc. CE10 Develop creative industries ♦ Identify new facilities/spaces for art Place Shaping and Property 2011 Place activity in and and creative industries enterprises Services Shaping

6 Cabinet Approval version The Action Plan

Creative Enfield Volume 2 APPENDIX B

Ref number – Action How will this be achieved? What resources? Timescale Lead Creative Organisation Enfield(CE) /person . through Place Shaping – prioritise Ponders End and Enfield Lock. CE11 Develop creative clusters in ♦ Investigate the potential for Shaping and Property 2011 Place borough to focus opportunities for establishment of creative industries Services Shaping enterprise. clusters in our town centres, prioritising: - Edmonton Green - Palmer’s Green/Southgate. CE12 Develop film in the borough. ♦ Develop and deliver the North Partner Boroughs in-kind, 2009/10 Partner London Film Fund initiative in cash, and staff; and Film and each boroughs – partnership with Camden, Islington, London grant. year officers. Haringey, and Enfield. CE13 Increase available premises and ♦ Work with Property Services and staff time and costs of 2010/11 Council resources for the visual and Sustainable Communities teams to advertising. officers performing arts and small to review the number of empty medium size creative enterprises. properties available and assess suitability for advertising to the arts and creative sector. Aim 3 increase the number and improve the quality of facilities for the arts to ensure that the arts infrastructure is fit for purpose and able to support increased participation in local neighbourhoods.

CE14 Re-launch new improved public ♦ Refurbish Enfield Council 2009/10 Council facilities at Millfield Arts Centre. auditorium, improve toilets, access Cultural facilities, and provide new café bar. team. ♦ Restore and improve access facilities to . ♦ Meet the needs of audiences; Increase audience satisfaction; Increase participation levels.

CE15 Open new venues in Enfield ♦ Refurbish Thomas Hardy House to Enfield Council 2009/10 Council Town at Thomas Hardy House for provide new facilities for arts and Cultural

7 Cabinet Approval version The Action Plan

Creative Enfield Volume 2 APPENDIX B

Ref number – Action How will this be achieved? What resources? Timescale Lead Creative Organisation Enfield(CE) /person community, business, recreation, cultural uses – accessible ground team./ fitness, arts and cultural use. floor spaces called the Dugdale Museums Centre - including exhibition space, Team / museum spaces, temporary changing Tourism museum displays, flexible studio Team theatre style conference and performance space, café/bar and Tourist Information point.

CE16 Develop Forty Hall & Estate as ♦ submit Stage 2 funding bid to HLF Enfield Council and bid to 2010/11 ECSL Dept - the ‘Jewel in Crown’ of the for the development of the Hall – Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). pre-works Council borough and a major cultural unique selling points are Architecture, Cultural team visitor attraction in London. heritage value, arts, ecology and 2011/12 and environment. Prime uses – works PlaceShaping conferencing, hires, exhibitions, & Enterprise learning opportunities, and 2012/13 Dept - Parks programming under these headings – re-launch team. ‘art, ecology, and memory’. ♦ arts and heritage programming – arts and community-led projects and exhibitions, offer ‘Learning Outside the Classroom’ – and using creativity to improve learning outcomes. CE17 Increase opportunities for the arts ♦ ensure that the benefits of Partnership approach 2009/10 Council and creative industries sector to partnership working with the arts & Cultural team. deliver on public policies and creative industries sector is initiatives. represented in all master plans, the Local Development Framework, Place Shaping Area Studies, and 2010/11 town centre regeneration initiatives. ♦ ensure that the needs of the arts and creative industries are considered

8 Cabinet Approval version The Action Plan

Creative Enfield Volume 2 APPENDIX B

Ref number – Action How will this be achieved? What resources? Timescale Lead Creative Organisation Enfield(CE) /person in Place Shaping and CAB work plans; with particular emphasis on CAB1 (Enfield Lock, , Ponders End and Edmonton) and CAB3 (, , Bowes, and Southgate town).

CE18 Building Schools for the Future ♦ Ensure that the arts and creative Council 2009/10 Partnerships (BSF) industries are part of the planning for BSF 2010/11 and BSF each BSF site, contributing to new Cultural stakeholders group. spaces for learning that will support creativity. ♦ Work in partnership with BSF schools to ensure the arts and creative industries contribute to the Transformation of Learning agenda. CE19 Awareness of venues in the ♦ Work in partnership with Highways Partnership working with 2010/11 Partners. Borough and Planning teams to review the Hightways and Planning and signage, transport links, and site teams, staff time. 2011/12 access issues to all arts venues, prioritise Forty Hall, Millfield Arts Centre and ChickenShed Theatre through a review of signage including visibility on major road routes leading to the venues. Aim 4 develop the public realm through a planned approach to the integration of quality public art and good design, treating the borough area as a ‘venue’ for the arts and creativity and leading to greater local distinctiveness and civic pride.

CE20 Integrate the arts as part of the ♦ Develop a Public Art Strategy for Cultural team 2009/10 PlaceShaping design and planning of the Public the borough including the use of the & Enterprise Realm. established ‘Percent for Art’ principal, 2010/11 Dept – use of Section 106, and the new CIL PlaceShaping

9 Cabinet Approval version The Action Plan

Creative Enfield Volume 2 APPENDIX B

Ref number – Action How will this be achieved? What resources? Timescale Lead Creative Organisation Enfield(CE) /person ‘Standard Charge’ for developments team which is anticipated – prioritise the supported by A406 corridor and Upper Lee Side the Cultural areas. team. ♦ CPD workshop for Planners and Engineers. ♦ Letter for developers and promotional pack to explain the benefits of public art. Aim 5 develop the capacity and raise standards within the sector, artistically and strategically; and increase resources available through partnership working to take advantage of new opportunities, including the sharing of resources to deliver efficient ways of working in a challenging economic climate.

CE21 Increase resources for the arts. ♦ Work with Place Shaping to Place Shaping 2010/11 Place establish a case for the use of the on-going Shaping ‘Standard Charge’ CIL to improve the number and quality of facilities for the arts and creative industries.

CE22 Increase resources for the arts ♦ Audit services for Older People in Cultural Services 2010/11 Cultural the sector and establish a partnership Services to extend the use of schools for activities for the wider community . CE23 Increase resources for the arts ♦ Develop partnership with Cultural Services 2010/11 Cultural University, Enfield College and Services Southgate College to increase community use of spaces for the arts and creative industries including activities for Older People such as languages, writing, spoken word, performance, dance, music, visual arts and crafts.

10 Cabinet Approval version The Action Plan

Creative Enfield Volume 2 APPENDIX B

Ref number – Action How will this be achieved? What resources? Timescale Lead Creative Organisation Enfield(CE) /person CE24 Services to arts and creative ♦ Launch services on the web for Cultural Services 2009/10 Council individuals and organisations. artists, arts orgs, and creative Cultural team. businesses. CE25 Services to arts and creative ♦ Support and develop the SEER Arts Council of England and 4 2009/10 Council individuals and organisations website ie on-line database of arts borough partnership and Cultural team. and creative organisations and ongoing individuals. CE26 Increase resources to deliver the ♦ support local organisations in Staff time, support from On-going Council arts and creative industries. funding bids to deliver on this strategy funders. services. Cultural and sustain their best work. Schools, Enfield Council, and Team. ♦ work in partnership across the voluntary organisations. 2009/10. Council and with the voluntary sector to access work, skills, and training funds to support this strategy. CE27 Increase capacity and ♦ Develop partnership working to UK Film Council and Film 2010/11 Council engagement through film increase the number of independent London; and location film Cultural team development, leading to screens for showing films and fees. and increased enterprise activity and develop funding bid(s) to achieve this. Corporate add to the night time economy of ♦ Investigate ways to secure money Communicati town centres. from film location work in the borough ons. to support local filmmaking talent and enterprise eg Percent for Film – professional location fees contributing to local film making. CE28 Sharing information across the ♦ Ensure that arts and creative All partners. 2010/11 Council sector. organisations share information and Cultural data on how many people are team. participating in the arts and cultural activities.

CE29 Increase capacity of the private ♦ Establish a network of alternative staff time. 2010/11 Council and voluntary sector to suppo rt spaces for music ie cafes, bars, Grant funds. Cultural team.

11 Cabinet Approval version The Action Plan

Creative Enfield Volume 2 APPENDIX B

Ref number – Action How will this be achieved? What resources? Timescale Lead Creative Organisation Enfield(CE) /person music development and restaurants etc using licensing to Sustainable presentation. regenerate town centres. WNF communities team. Place Shaping. Economic Development. CE30 Develop studio space ♦ Work with Visual Artists and local Cultural Services supported 2011/12 Cultural organisations to develop a plan for by funding bid to ACE Services Open Studios annual event across the borough. CE31 Increase resources for the arts ♦ Review arts provision by Youth Cultural Services / Youth 2010/11 Cultural and extend services for and with Services and develop basis for Services Services young people. partnership working encouraging Youth greater linkage with the arts and Services creative industries sector.

CE32 ♦ Secure funds to work in partnership Cultural Services / Integrated 2010/11 Cultural with Integrated children’s services Children’s Services team Services / IST teams to make a film for families about their experiences. CE33 ♦ Work in partnership to indentify Partnership ie Met Police, 2011 Place resources to achieve a borough arts housing associations, Place Shaping and bus to travel around the housing Shaping, and grant funds. Cultural estates, town centres and Place Services. Shaping Areas during the summer holidays.

12 Cabinet Approval version The Action Plan