Cultural strategy to back arts-led rural regeneration
The Rural Cultural Forum (RF) has produced a five-year investment strategy to support arts and culture-led regeneration in rural areas, and support cultural equality in rural communities.
The main strategic aims and objectives of the rural cultural strategy are:
• to promote cultural equity for rural communities, and ensure fairer provision of future arts funding and cultural investment for regeneration programmes in rural areas.
• to encourage a wider role for the professional arts, media and design sector (urban and rural) in support of rural economic regeneration, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability initiatives in the countryside.
• to develop a five-year cultural investment strategy for rural communities that will sustain the social and economic benefits of arts and culture-led regeneration programmes in rural areas.
• to work closely with DCMS, DEFRA, Arts Council England and the Commission for Rural Communities to ensure that future arts and culture-led rural regeneration initiatives address key Government policies promoting the creative economy (DCMS); access to great art for everyone (ACE); sustainable rural communities (CRC); and economic and environmental sustainability (DEFRA).
For more information, email: info@ruralculture.org.uk or go to: http://www.ruralculture.org.uk
Date posted: 1st March 2010