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Towards a Stronger Sense of Place (Pan Lancashire Arts Culture and Entertainment) Arts Development Task Group Report For further information contact: Overview and Scrutiny Claire Evans [email protected] July 2012 07917 836 698 Towards a Stronger Sense of Place (Pan Lancashire Arts Culture and Entertainment) Arts Development Task Group Report 1 2 Contents Executive Summary 4 Background 7 Membership, Terms of Reference and Methodology 9 Findings 11 What is Art and Does it Matter? 11 Context of Our Review 11 Austerity 12 Arts Council: Strategy and Funding 12 Arts Council: Governance and Accountability 13 "Achieving Great Art for Everyone" – Outcomes in Lancashire 15 Not Good 15 But not all bad 15 Exciting Opportunities to Refresh and Renew in Lancashire 16 What went wrong with the NPO round 17 What went right 18 Local Authorities Role and Performance 19 Support to the arts: financial investment; advocacy; generalised services 19 What is Lancashire? – a snap portrait 19 The current picture in pan Lancashire and Future Prospects 21 Arts Council England – Performance in pan Lancashire 24 Positive 24 Negative 25 Art and the Economy 26 Evidence of Impact: Liverpool case study 26 Current situation in Lancashire 27 Economic impact study reports – Lancashire and Lancaster 27 Future Prospects 28 Cultural Tourism 29 Arts and the Minority Ethnic Communities 30 Role of Universities 32 Recommendations 34 Appendices 37 A - Witnesses and key documents 37 B - Glossary 39 C – Delivering the arts in Lancashire 2012 – a sketch portrait 40 3 Executive Summary "Achieving Great Art for Everyone" is the new This report examines the state of the arts in ACE ten year strategic framework. It has pan Lancashire following recent funding been widely welcomed across the sector for decisions taken by Arts Council England its clarity and openness. Future direction and (ACE), which began to come into effect from funding decisions will be determined April 2012. Funding decisions so far have according to this plan. Its key artistic goals brought mostly bad news in the sub-region are: (with notable exceptions) and have prompted • Talent and artistic excellence are thriving this thoroughgoing investigation of overall and celebrated performance by ACE, local authorities and • More people experience and are inspired arts organisations. Many recommendations by the arts are made, covering short, medium and long • The arts are sustainable, resilient and term actions that should be taken in order to innovative realise the full potential of the arts, culture • The arts leadership and workforce are and entertainment in this area. The keys to diverse and highly skilled success lie in vision and ambition, linked to • Every child and young person has the effective leadership and advocacy across the opportunity to experience the richness of board. the arts ACE decisions taken in 2011 to develop a There are many different funding streams new National Portfolio of arts organisations now administered by ACE, which are detailed would reduce the overall level of their core- in the body of this report. These represent a funding (or known more accurately since new approach to arts funding by ACE and 2012 as National Portfolio funding) into pan they will impact on both local authorities and Lancashire by 39%, with the total number of independent arts organisations well into the local arts organisations core-funded reducing future. from 14 to 9. Core-funding spend per head of population is now significantly reduced and sits far behind that received in neighbouring sub-regions, such as Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cumbria (indeed Cumbria has seen an overall increase in its core- funding spend by ACE). Only 4.5% of the total ACE core-funding spend in the north west region now goes into pan Lancashire arts organisations, even though 20% of the NW population live here. The practical definition of the arts, currently in common use covers: • Theatre, Drama, Dance, Literature The shock of the outcome of the 2012-15 • Festival/Carnival, Music, Performing Arts core-funding, National Portfolio round has • Visual Arts, Public Art, Design and Public forced many arts organisations to re- Realm evaluate, refresh and reinvent their offer. • Photography, Film & Media, Digital Media Similarly, local authority arts teams have needed to examine what went wrong and • Craft why. This report, "Towards a Stronger Sense of PLACE", outlines these efforts and starts Austerity is a reality both now and into the the process of pointing a way to a better medium term future. ACE funds from HM future. Treasury for 2012-15 have been reduced by 30%. In addition, its internal administration Contributing factors to "what went wrong" costs are undergoing a 50% reduction include: lack of a cohesive arts vision and programme. ambition for the sub-region; poor quality of 4 funding applications; complacency; lack of co-ordination across arts organisations; ACE has recently taken on additional weak business models, with excessive responsibility for music education, libraries dependency on ACE funding, governance and museums. It is also committed to shortcomings; patchy performance locally by bringing added value to the work of local ACE; lack of effective support from local authorities, once their attention has been authorities to arts organisations through the secured. The diversity and complexity of the bidding process (Blackpool excepted); lack of local government landscape is a barrier to effective advocacy, political leadership and ACE developing a clear picture of what is inter-authority co-operation. needed in the sub-region and how it best can lend support. ACE is also keen to play a full Contributing factors to "what went right" for role in local economic development and successful bidders include: a clear sense of regeneration work. Many arts organisations ambition and vision; reflecting the and local authorities, though, remain unsure communities served; being a hub of good of the stance of ACE and have concerns practice; strong regional and national regarding consistency and accountability. connections; strong leadership and governance, with financial robustness and Liverpool is a beacon example of how to diversification of funding streams. place arts, culture and entertainment at the heart of economic development and Local authorities in the sub-region have a regeneration. Pan Lancashire needs to do long record of support to the arts sector and a the same. Key to this future will be the clear recognition that a thriving arts sector performance of local authorities and the contributes to the public interest and well- Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership being. In particular, they play a role in acting (LEP) in both accessing and providing capital as a lever to provide access to external and recurrent investment into the arts. Clear funding streams for arts organisations. economic analysis of all such investments, Relatively modest investment can lead to showing the benefits in terms of economic substantial further investment from non-local and jobs growth, is key to future success. authority sources. Key attributes of successful local authorities include: sound The arts are a central component in the financial investment; strong and effective tourism offer in the sub-region. "Marketing advocacy and well- informed arts Lancashire", the new local, lead body for development support. tourism (with a similar, sister organisation for Blackpool) has a critical role to play. Cultural Arts development units within local authorities tourism is a national growth area. Pan are generally located within community Lancashire has much ground to make up in services directorates, rather than being part order to punch its weight. of economic development, tourism, marketing or regeneration offices. Not all local Two other specialist areas are addressed in authorities have dedicated arts development this report. The first is minority ethnic officer posts, which is a shortcoming with communities, where we focus on the long- respect to grant applications support and a established, Asian immigrant (mainly Muslim) weakness when it comes to effective population in East Lancashire. There remains communication with ACE. There is, however, an under- representation in participation in a growing recognition locally of the benefits the arts by these communities, in spite of a and advantages of "joined-up" working across richness of talent on offer. There is a lack of boundaries to develop a coherent set of integration and cross-over, which serves to strategies for the sub-region. ACE is very disadvantage communities. There are areas supportive of local authorities operating more of high quality in areas such as Mela and cooperatively in collectively agreeing Caribbean Carnival. priorities. Grant funding mechanisms to arts organisations in some local authorities are in The second area is universities. Pan need of significant streamlining, while Lancashire has four universities, all with maintaining essential financial controls. significant strengths across arts disciplines. 5 There is very good community engagement arts" review for the sub-region; a stronger ("town and gown") and partnership working. role for arts in economic development, But there is substantial scope for Universities tourism development, with more effective to play a more prominent role in arts marketing and publicity; additional focus on development. BME communities; and enhanced contributions to Lancashire's artistic There are many recommendations made in landscape from Arts Council England. this report. These cover themes such as: political leadership and advocacy;
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