Arts

We have experience in preparing Local Authority Arts Strategies, project development and management, fund-raising and lottery applications, training programmes and we have particular experience of promoting the Arts in rural areas.

We believe that the Arts are important for a wide number of reasons, including:

• Arts for Arts Sake - the Arts cover a broad range of activities and experiences that are enjoyed both by participants and audiences. The Arts are capable of enriching life for all of us.
• Arts & Health - Arts opportunities have an important role in maintaining and developing a healthier nation, both physically and mentally.
• Arts & Community Development - Arts projects often provide a focus for local communities and can encourage self-organisation and a foundation for wider community activity.
• Arts, Economy, and Tourism - A thriving cultural environment helps to attract inward investment, promote tourism and itself generates employment and wealth.
• Arts & the Environment - public art, good design and accessible architecture can make a community a better place to live. Site-specific art can express local distinctiveness and community pride.
• Arts & Social Inclusion - art forms such as music, dance, graffiti, and photography/video can engage young people in constructive and educational activity who might otherwise be excluded from the local community.

We offer a full range of consultancy services to clients in the public, private and voluntary sectors.