APPENDIX 1: ARTS AND EVENTS Profile of Facilities • Arts and Events offers a huge programme of events throughout the whole city in parks, open spaces and buildings. Visitor Profile • Major events season offering free access to performances including 60,000 attendance at Party in the Park, 40,000 at Opera in the Park, Leeds Lights. • arts@leeds – partnership work with over 80 arts organisations across the city includes the city’s arts grant aid (over £2.8M in 2005-6) and schemes to spread participation and the benefits of involvement in the arts (e.g. Get Creative – summer collaboration between education teams of West Yorkshire Playhouse, Opera North, Northern Ballet Theatre, Phoenix Dance and Yorkshire Dance). Revenue Funding (based on Actuals 2004/05) Expenditure: £8,890,940 Income: £1,132,442 Net Cost: £7,758,498 Key Information • The service contributes to the narrowing the gap agenda by increasing access to creative opportunities and high quality cultural experiences for all the people of Leeds. As well as connecting people to the cultural life of the city, there are specific programmes to broaden access to the economic opportunities offered within the arts and creative industries. • Ongoing development of Millennium Square activities including special performances by major bands (Embrace, Kaiser Chiefs), large scale exhibitions (Earth From The Air), seasonal participatory activities (Christmas Market, the Ice Cube); also the development of the BBC Big Screen, with exposure for community organisations and acting as a focal point for national sporting events and celebrations. • arts@leeds – partnership work with over 80 arts organisations across the city includes the city’s arts grant aid (over £2.8M in 2005-6) and schemes • Creative – summer collaboration between education teams of West Yorkshire Playhouse, Opera North, Northern Ballet Theatre, Phoenix Dance and Yorkshire Dance). This work also attracts inward investment of between £3-£4 for every £1 of LCC expenditure and helps to make Leeds a viable place for developing artists to live and work. • Arts & Regeneration – project work directly targeted at key regeneration areas (e.g. Celebrating Creative Communities – £480,000 of European funding attracted to develop skills, increase employability and spread creative opportunity for residents of inner city Leeds 2003-5); annual participatory projects (e.g. Bright Young Things – development work for young bands and musicians working with 15 new acts each year); Black History Month events and grants for smaller community organisations. • Breeze International Youth Festival – working with new schools every year to provide creative opportunity and acting as the gateway to summer activities for young people. 28 High Schools involved in 2007 (c. 5000 young people) with performances at Leeds Town Hall, Leeds College of Music and West Yorkshire Playhouse; also visits by 200 international guests working alongside Leeds pupils and increasing cultural awareness. • Leeds Film – includes the Leeds International Film Festival (October) and Children and Young People’s Film Festival (March) as well as Leeds Film Quarter (year round). Spreads access to the best in world cinema as well as creating dedicated showcase opportunities for local film makers. • Carriageworks – Leeds’ newest theatre provides two stages, workshop space and other rooms and is home to local amateur producers (Leeds Arts Guild) as well as youth groups, community projects and emerging or smaller scale local professional companies. • Leeds International Concert Season – as well as providing an acclaimed low cost, accessible classical season at Leeds Town Hall (creating access to some of the world’s finest orchestras) the team bring bands to parks around Leeds and co-ordinate the Fuse festival alongside local promoters. APPENDIX 2: LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICE Profile of Facilities Committee Facility Ward East Inner Compton Gipton and Harehills East Inner Halton Temple Newsam East Inner Osmondthorpe Burmantofts and Richmond Hill East Inner Richmond Hill Burmantofts and Richmond Hill East Inner Seacroft Killingbeck and Seacroft East Outer Allerton Bywater Kippax and Methley East Outer Crossgates Crossgates and Whinmoor East Outer Garforth Garforth and Swillington East Outer Kippax Kippax and Methley East Outer Methley Kippax and Methley East Outer Swarcliffe Crossgates and Whinmoor East Outer Swillington Garforth and Swillington East Outer Whinmoor Crossgates and Whinmoor North East Inner Chapel Allerton Chapel Allerton North East Inner Chapel Town Chapel Allerton North East Inner Oakwood Roundhay North East Outer Boston Spa Wetherby North East Outer Moor Allerton Alwoodley North East Outer Scholes Harewood North East Outer Shadwell Harewood North East Outer Wetherby Wetherby North West Inner Burley Hyde Park and Woodhouse North West Inner Headingley Headingley North West Inner Ireland Wood Weetwood North West Inner Kirkstall Kirkstall North West Outer Guiseley Guiseley and Rawdon North West Outer Holt Park Adel and Wharfedale North West Outer Horsforth Horsforth North West Outer Otley Otley and Yeadon North West Outer Rawdon Otley and Yeadon North West Outer Yeadon Otley and Yeadon South Inner Beeston Beeston and Holbeck South Inner Belle Isle Middleton Park South Inner Central Library City and Hunslet South Inner Dewsbury Road City and Hunslet South Inner Holbeck Beeston and Holbeck South Inner Hunslet City and Hunslet South Inner Middleton Middleton Part South Outer Ardsley and Tingley Ardsley and Robin Hood South Outer Drighlington Morley North South Outer Gildersome Morley North South Outer Lofthouse Ardsley and Robin Hood South Outer Morley Morley South South Outer Oulton Rothwell South Outer Rothwell Rothwell West Inner Armley Armley West Inner Armley Heights Farnley and Wortley West Inner Bramley Bramley and Stanningley West Inner Broad Lane Bramley and Stanningley West Inner Cow Close Farnley and Wortley West Outer Calverley Calverley and Farsley West Outer Farsley Calverley and Farsley West Outer Pudsey Pudsey West Outer Swinnow Pudsey Visitor Profile • The service has 55 static libraries and 5 mobiles. Leeds Library and Information Service also manages the four prison libraries in Leeds. • There are over 4 million visits to our libraries each year and over 100,000 enquiries. • Over one third of the people who use the free computers in libraries come from the most deprived areas of Leeds. Revenue Funding (based on Actuals 2004/05) Expenditure: £14,846,968 Income: £ 971,437 Net Cost: £13,875,531 External Funding The Library and Information Service attracts funding to help deliver the Narrowing the Gap agenda - • 2004/5 total external bid income achieved = over £500,000 including £91.5K for Studio 12 and £189,000 for Neighbourhood Renewal (Community learning and Access to Information) • 2005/6 = £620,000 including £61K for Studio 12, and £185.5K for Neighbourhood Renewal (Community based) • 2006/7 = £543,000 including £89K for the Paul Hamlyn Prisons reader in residence, Neighbourhood Renewal Fund £185,000 and £90,000 to deliver a new Mentoring and Volunteering scheme to help Refugees engage with their new communities. Key Information • Narrowing the Gap is at the heart of all we do and there is significant consultation through surveys and focus groups to ensure that our funding is correctly focused. • All libraries work to a community profile which ensures that the stock, customer service and the events programme meets the need of the local community and the needs of specific groups. • There is free access to computers at all libraries, with assistive technology available in all sites including dyslexia software, hearing loops and wheelchair friendly tables. Computer help and the joining form are translated into 30 languages. • Community websites, covering all wards, engage the whole community with local issues and events, and connecting people with their councillors • Libraries host over 2,000 free learning sessions across the city including over 1,000 one to one sessions for those who express a specific need. There are learning sessions for basic skills students, English as a Second Language students and MENCAP customers. • In the last four years, 7 new libraries have been built and 9 major refurbishments have taken place, all planned with consultation with local communities. For example, the new Library in Otley now attracts more young people as it is modern, light and well laid out. Dewsbury Road Library is offering family learning sessions in partnership with Beeston Hill Surestart. • In 2004 there were 10 Community Safety events in libraries throughout the city plus one large partnership event at Moor Allerton Library. • 124 Library staff were trained in 2005 to upskill them and build confidence in delivering an inclusive service to people with special and specific needs. • The Bookstart initiative, funded by Surestart, has been reaching young babies and their families by introducing them to the delights of books and libraries at their seven month check up. Extended Bookstart is continuing this work by introducing treasure chests and satchels to older children. A new initiative introducing children to numeracy skills in partnership with the Yorkshire Bank is about to be launched. • Readers Groups encourage development of literacy skills, including a VIP Readers Group and 3 VIP Asian readers groups. APPENDIX 3: MUSEUMS & GALLERIES Profile of Facilities Committee Facility Ward East Outer Temple Newsam Temple Newsam North East Outer Lotherton Hall Harewood