Enterprise

Giving local people jobs, increasing skills, and generating income from sources other than public funders is essential for First Art and for the cultural sector to grow and thrive in the area.

Our Cultural Enterprise scheme is designed to inspire and develop the creative ideas of local people, allowing them to be innovative and creative whilst providing the business skills and attributes essential to cultivating those ideas into a venture.

Finding ways to inspire and support people to have the confidence to set up cultural enterprises is really important especially in the current climate.

We want to support these budding social entrepreneurs every step of the way. This could be through training to offering transport costs; we’ll inject the inspiration and investment needed to provide unique opportunities for people to take part, to develop and realise their enterprising potential and business ideas.

These ideas must provide public benefit to local communities and allow more people to experience the arts.

We want to help that next step for those that are keen to develop their creative skills into a business

These steps are so important to support talent development and to strengthen the cultural offer of the area. We’ll work with a range of business partners including our consortium partner Prince’s Trust to:

• Provide training and mentoring to help people explore, evaluate and develop their own business ideas that enhance cultural opportunities and experiences for local people
• Actively seek and build opportunities in the area, connecting with communities to find those most in need and to link to the business, skills development and education sectors
• Attract match funding to support initiatives and projects.

This will all go to helping us achieve our vision of inspiring more people to experience and shape the arts as well as strengthening the cultural sector.

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