Wiltshire Council Arts Service three year review 2009 – 2012
Introduction Wiltshire Council is central to the development of the arts within the county. Wiltshire Council directly invests in the arts through the Wiltshire Council Arts Development Service (ADS), Wiltshire Youth Arts Partnership, and the Wiltshire Council Music Service. The council also supports the arts and culture more broadly through the Conservation and Museums Advisory Service, the Library Service, the Schools and Learning Service and through various grants streams most notably the Area Board Community Grants Scheme.
Key financial achievements: • The arts sector contributes over £23million to Wiltshire’s economy • Wiltshire Council investment of £0.5million levers in £6million of support for the arts • Wiltshire Council has secured almost a £1million for art and design in the public realm • Arts Council England National Portfolio support of £4.4million over 3 years for 5 key arts organisations • £0.4 million from National Lottery for rural Film Pilot • Young Gallery project received £34,000 of Heritage Lottery funds
Stage 65 at the Salisbury Playhouse
Wiltshire Council is the most important strategic partner for the national arts funding agencies and works closely with the various central government departments that promote participation in culture and the arts in Wiltshire.
This document focuses upon the work of the Arts Development Service and its relationships with the arts sector, the community and with the broader public and private sectors. The Arts Development Service was formed in 2009 with the formation of Wiltshire Council as a unitary local authority. This document summarises the achievements of the Arts Development Service from 2009 to March 2012.
Wiltshire Council Arts Development Service The arts service is an enabling team which supports the arts sector to grow, adapt and flourish in Wiltshire. The arts service: • Invests in the arts infrastructure, facilities and providers across the county • Supports arts organisations to adapt to the changing social and Corsham Festival political landscape, and observes and supports trustee, steering and management groups and boards • Networks works with regional and national bodies to support programmes of work and support Wiltshire’s communities to engage in the arts • Advises and informs organisations, individuals and communities through its web pages, databases, e-bulletins, personal contact and networks
Wiltshire Council Arts Service three year review
• Deliver opportunities for people to access/take part in arts projects, initiatives and programmes • Provides a co-ordinating role for county-wide initiatives and programmes • Advocates for the value of the arts with internal and external partners and for the role that the arts play in supporting wellbeing and creating stronger and more resilient communities.
Headline achievements 2009/10 • Public Art Advisory Service The arts service successfully raised funds from the Arts Council to develop a strategic service for an integrated and collaborative approach to art and design in the public realm (often referred to as public art). So far, this has led to: • the production of a guidance note for art and design in the public realm, which is a toolkit for developers and planners • securing through developer contributions approximately £800,000 for art and design in the public realm at sites across Wiltshire, with an additional £400,000 currently under negotiation for major schemes in the future • an advisory service for planning officers on specific projects, developments and development contributions across Wiltshire • the recognition of the role of art and design within the emerging core strategy as well as the role it can play in regeneration and community engagement.
Headline achievements 2010/11 • White Horse Pictures The arts service worked in collaboration with South West Screen to secure a place within the national pilot of the UK Film Council’s (now BFI) Rural Cinema initiative. This project attracted a grant of £400,000 from the National Lottery to upgrade the existing cinema infrastructure within the county and to explore the potential for showing new release films within rural and isolated communities using industry standard equipment. • National Portfolio Organisation The arts service supported organisations across the county to bid for inclusion within the new Arts Council England National Portfolio. There were five successful bids from Wiltshire for funding commencing in April 2012, which included one organisation that had not previously received regular funding from the Arts Council. The total value of these five bids is £4.4 million over three years.
Umdumo Wesizwe perform at the Pound, Corsham
Key audience facts: • One million visits to arts events each year in Wiltshire • Over 450,000 tickets sold each year • Over 1000 people volunteer in the arts
Headline achievements 2011/12 Quote from project: “I just can’t get over it. It’s the first time I’ve seen all those kids happy and working together.” (Mother of participant), Kick Start Project, Wiltshire Dancing.
• Development of the Cultural Strategy The arts service has taken a leading role in developing the cultural strategy for Wiltshire. The strategy will express the social and financial value of the cultural sector for Wiltshire, detailing the development plans for the various elements of the sector and providing a mechanism for both collaborative working within the sector and expressing the value of culture within the wider community agenda. • Economic impact of the arts study The arts service has benchmarked the economic impact of the arts within Wiltshire. This piece of work has demonstrated that the direct economic impact of the arts is £6.5 million, the indirect economic impact of this expenditure on the Wiltshire economy is calculated as £23.8 million. There were over £3.1 million worth of ticket sales within Kalamandalan Manoj Kumar Wiltshire last year as more than 450,000 at the Wiltshire Music Centre people attended ticketed events and a further 78,813 people took part in participatory activity. • Other worlds project The Young Gallery was successful in attracting £34,000 of Heritage Lottery funding to purchase Paul Nash’s painting Ghost in the Shale and deliver an exciting project to engage military personnel and their families in a visual arts project that created a contemporary response to the Paul Nash work and explored the world of the modern soldier.
Artwork by PAWS artist Geraldine Francis
• Team Wiltshire Culture Sub-Group The Arts Service established a culture sub-group for Team Wiltshire to co-ordinate the cultural activity planned in 2012 and to support the delivery of a lasting legacy.
Wiltshire Council Arts Development Service Investment Plan 2009 to 2012 • Regular funding agreements The arts service is responsible for managing Wiltshire Council’s regular funding of arts organisations across the county. Each year the council invests £0.5 million in regular grant funding to arts organisations which generates additional resources of approximately £6 million per annum. These arts organisations deliver a huge range of activity including theatre, music, visual
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arts, festivals and film programmes which receive almost one million visits each year. These organisations are supported by almost 1,000 volunteers. • Project grants In the last three years, the arts service has allocated £56,000 of grants to 40 different local arts projects, enabling target communities to take part in high quality arts projects. Whilst not all projects are completed yet, the estimated level of additional monies levered in by these projects from other sources is over £130,000. • Participatory Arts Workshop Scheme (PAWS) In the last three years, the arts service has delivered 120 PAWS projects in a variety of community settings across Wiltshire, giving more than 1,400 participants the chance to take part in exciting projects, varying from visual arts and crafts to drama, dance and music. Each of these projects has included at least eight hours of contact time with a professional artist. • Arts training programmes • In the last three years 67 people have taken part in the community arts training programme and gained the skills and confidence necessary to manage successful community and participatory arts projects.
Private Lives at the Salisbury Playhouse
Quote from PAWS participant: “Fantastic opportunity to learn from an expert – we could never have bought the equipment to do such a project.”
• In partnership with Arts Award South West the arts service has delivered subsidised training to 31 artists, educators and youth workers to become arts award advisers. These advisers will guide young people aged 11-25 years through taking an Arts Award, which is a nationally recognised accredited qualification. • The arts service worked in partnership with the Arts Council England to support the delivery of Arts Mark training across the county; the Arts Mark is a quality assessment for schools. The training programme supported 25 teachers to learn how to undertake the Arts Mark assessment.
Looking torwards an optomistic future The most important elements of the arts service’s work in the future will be the delivery of the development and enabling roles, as well as the sustained investment in the key infrastructure that supports the arts within the county. Dream Engine launching the Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival
Quotes from traing programme: “The course was far broader, more detailed, valuable and inspirational than I could have possibly imagined…excellent speakers… dynamic course leader” “…now I think I could run a small community arts project”
New areas of work for the next two years: • Artist studio project at the Pound Arts Centre The arts service is working with the Pound Arts Trust Ltd to complete the second development phase of the Pound Arts Centre. The project will refurbish an underused out-building to provide three studio spaces for emerging artists and a workshop space for the delivery of community participatory arts workshops. This will help to support the ongoing development of visual arts at the Pound and across the county. • 2012 a year of celebration The arts service will continue to support the delivery of creative and celebratory activity in 2012. More than 30 different projects will take place, including projects that form a part of the London 2012 Festival such as the Music Nation concerts and the Stonehenge Fire Garden. The community driven projects will celebrate local creativity and talent such as the Not the Finishing Balance by Michael Speller Line exhibition of work by disabled on display at Urchfont artists and the dynamic Parallel Manor production by the Salisbury Playhouse. • Wiltshire’s White Horses The arts service has commissioned the Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival to deliver a major land art project to illuminate two of Wiltshire’s White Horses as the Olympic Torch passes through the South West. • Cultural element of the School Games
2012–15
Rural Arts Wiltshire performance by the Harold Haugaard Quartet
The arts service will work with the Wiltshire and Swindon Sports Partnership to support the delivery of the cultural competition elements of the School Games. • Arts Council strategic funding 2012–15 The arts service will work with organisations across the county to access the Arts Council’s strategic funding programmes. This will include supporting application to the Catalyst (philanthropic giving fund); the Capital fund; and the Strategic Touring fund.
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• Re-launch of the Young Gallery 2013 The arts service will support the re-visioning and the re-launching of the Young Gallery in 2013. In 2011 the arts service supported the gallery to digitise the collection and in 2012 the arts service will support the gallery to develop a website and two permanent exhibitions dedicated to Edwin Young and John Creasey. • Centenary of the First World War in 2014 The arts service will work with partners to ensure that there is a creative and dynamic approach to the centenary of the First World War. This will include supporting the Young Gallery to work with the military community to celebrate the strong history of war art within Wiltshire and Britain. The Arts Development Service provides a multifaceted role within the arts sector and the broader community. Since 2009 the service has researched, advocated, supported, advised, invested and sought innovative ways to invigorate the arts and culture throughout the county. Wiltshire has a World Heritage Site, three Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a highly skilled cultural workforce and huge cohort of volunteers supporting a thriving amateur sector. The professional arts sector includes the Salisbury Playhouse which is one of the best regional producing theatres in the country, the Wiltshire Music Centre which delivers world class musical experiences, the Salisbury Arts Centre and the Pound Arts Centre which deliver diverse and dynamic programmes and a number of inspiring arts festivals across the county, notably the Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival. The next three years will be a period of even greater change as the cultural sector adapts in response to the challenges of the last three years. The cultural strategy for Wiltshire will express the drivers for change, as well as bring together the capabilities and resources of the sector to meet the challenges that lie Le Concert de Feu opening the Ageas ahead. Salisbury International Arts Festival (credit Daniel Saint Leger)
Hoodwink performing at the Salisbury Arts Centre
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