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We run a successful multi-arts and heritage programme, with visitor numbers increasing annually. In 2020 we want to continue to offer our, usually free, outreach programme working with groups recognised as hard to reach - young people and families with young children, the elderly and disadvantaged.
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Situation
Opportunities to participate in the arts, improving well-being and social cohesion, are diminishing. To counter this, we aim to offer new and stimulating activities, usually free, that improve life chances – whatever the participant’s age, co-operating with bodies such as schools and retirement homes. Income generation from our core business of staging performances and exhibitions helps to fund about half the outreach programme, but we continue to need financial help to carry out the whole.
Solution
Our core events programme, usually 4 evenings a week, tries to appeal across the board and be affordable. However, our outreach programme will cater for the interests of individual age groups, taking place when it suits them with a strong social element e.g. the elderly can watch a film matinee sitting at a table with friends. We link activities to other events for maximum impact e.g. a children’s illustrator runs a drawing class related to an exhibition or a performance preceded by a workshop
