The Culture Partnership
Following on from our success in rewriting the Vision for Portsmouth, the Cultural Consortium played the leading role in setting up a new Local Strategic Partmetship Board, called the Culture Partnership Board in November 2009.
The Culture Partnership has to an extent taken over the role that the Cultural Consortium had in influencing decision-makers on the wider strategic issues. Now the Cultural Consortium will be re-focusing its work on community-led issues, but there is bound to be some overlap and of course considerable cooperation. Culture is too big for any one body to claim!
The Culture Partnership (CP) is now Portsmouth's lead strategic partnership for culture and is responsible for driving partnership activity to deliver and support the city's cultural agenda. The work of the CP contributes to a number of the priorities laid out in the Vision for Portsmouth, but it is leading on Priority 8:
To enhance Portsmouth's reputation as a city of culture, energy and passion, offering access for all to arts, sports and leisure.
Key aims of the Culture Partnership
The CP will:
- Ensure that the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) is kept informed of priorities for action for culture
- Identify priority outcomes that will turn the aspirations of the Vision for Portsmouth into reality. Broad priority areas to have emerged are:
- Transport access to cultural activity
- Joint working with Southampton on cultural activities to maximise the benefit of the two cities' cultural synergies
- Access to cultural activity and events in terms of marketing, ticketing and affordability
- Undertake and lead on tasks to help achieve priority outcomes on behalf of the LSP
- Contribute to the development of appropriate indicators and targets for the next Local Area Agreement (LAA) and assume responsibility for existing LAA targets
Membership
Members of the CP represent key organisations promoting the broad spectrum of culture in the city including Portsmouth City Council; University of Portsmouth; the city's Cultural Consortium, Community Network, Sports Council and Youth Parliament; Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust (Historic Dockyard); New Theatre Royal and Kings Theatre; Aspex; Parkwood Community Leisure (who run Mountbatten Centre etc); Portsmouth Football Club; Portsmouth Society; and, South Coast Design Forum.
Chair
The current Chair is Steve Pitt, who also sits on the Cultural Consortium Committee.
Open Meetings
However, all meetings are open, and members of the public are welcome to attend. If you are able to, please let the organisers know in advance (see weblink below), just to make sure there is enough refreshments and spaces.
The CP meets every two months but has a number of action groups that will meet as needed.
Get in touch
If you want to raise an issue, just get in touch (see weblink below)
More details and who to contact
See http://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/yourcouncil/17613.html
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