Minutes: 12 July 2010 Present: Michelle Carwardine-Palmer (Chair) Salisbury Playhouse Peter Ursem, ArtCare Deryck Newland, Salisbury Arts Centre Tracy Sullivan, WAP The key purpose of this meeting was to: 1. Look at key headings as identified by Wiltshire Councils Organisational Data questionnaire, in order to produce a draft ‘Cultural Strategy’ document that can be developed at the next full WAP mtg. 2. To agree a Terms Of Reference Document Outcomes 1. Tracy to produce a short Annual Report of activity. This will be benchmarked against the targets set by the communication strategy. ACTION. TS produce report ACTION. MCP email template (complete) 2. Tracy to produce a full budget document to share with full membership ACTION: TS to produce budget doc 3. Key Headings/ Cultural Strategy Document should: a. Define the ecology in a Wiltshire Specific way: i. Will be an 85 year + boom in ten years time ii. High density of families compared to those taking part in arts activity (as evidenced by Audience development research commissioned by WASSA iii. Wiltshire has a disparate population which makes engagement more challenging/ Rural Isolation iv. Large military population v. Salisbury polarised due to its Private School sector vi. BME make up of Wiltshire with ? number of languages spoken vii. Areas of deprivation, Wiltshire’s Community plan identifies 3 areas, two in Trowbridge and one in Salisbury, that are amongst the top 20 most deprived areas in the country viii. Wiltshire’s Heritage The key purpose of this document is not as for political leverage through demonstrating the value of the arts, although a section of it could do that, but more to be a tool for partnership working through the membership, so that there is a wider understanding of all members as to the priorities of each other, identify where areas of priority can be made more effective by working together, where they may be gaps that need work and to help us to have a more joined up vision of a strategy for the next 3 and 5 years.
In order to complete this piece of work we would like to full membership to take part in an exercise which allows them to create a priority list of the headings identified by the Organisational Data sheets, with some blank labels to add any missing priorities to the list. Resulting in an agreed pyramid of priorities, as far as possible, agreed by everyone.
Unfortunately having looked at the Agenda priorities for the next meeting we felt that this may need to be postponed to the next meeting. Terms Of Reference 1. The draft was looked at and amendments agreed, Tracy will email darft with papers for next meeting and move to it being adopted at full meeting. ACTION: TS email T Of R Agenda for full meeting agreed 1. Since this mtg TS has met with Peter Tyas of WC and Caroline Corfe, Relationship Manager for Regional Development, both of whom would like an opportunity to speak to the membership, so these items will be added to the Agenda which will most certainly leave no time to have the full exploration of the ‘key headings’ exercise that would be needed. ACTION: TS to produce papers for the full meeting by mid August