ARTS - archive april 2007
DETAILS NOW EMERGING ABOUT THE LEGACY TRUST UK - April 2007 archive
Creative and cultural businesses across Kent are being encouraged to register now on the website of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games / Olympic Delivery Authority.
The Legacy Trust UK is a £40 million expendable endowment to be spent over the years leading up to and including 2012 on a UK wide programme of projects which will:
promote
the Olympic and Paralympic ideals celebrating mind, body and spirit;
foster
innovation and creativity;
strengthen
the creative and technical skills base across the UK;
encourage a joined-up approach across sport, physical activity, culture and education;
offer young people and diverse communities the opportunity to fully participate in the build up and delivery of the wider vision for the Games in 2012, and
leave a lasting positive legacy of the 2012 Games for future generations.
£6m of the £40m is specifically intended to support the staging of an annual National School Games (the first one in 2006 was hosted in Glasgow, 2007 will see it held in Coventry).
It’s board met for the first time last week.
The Trust will NOT be looking for bids, as £34m is a limited sum – although the Trust is exploring opportunities for match funding the sum – but instead is exploring how best to commission projects across the UK.
Eight grants will be made each year, to a mixture of national cultural events, to the national school games, to “the regions” (including London as a “region”) and to bodies that have national representation/coverage, but may wish to spend their grant in a local area.
The Legacy Trust will work through the Regional Cultural Consortia, Regional Development Agencies and the Regional Coordinators for the 2012 Games to determine where best to commission work from. Sarah Dance, chairman of the Kent Campaign for the 2012 Games’ arts sectoral task group, is “logged” as a key South East partner and will be able to keep Kent partners abreast of developments.
IMMINENT APPOINTMENT OF A SOUTH EAST CREATIVE PROGRAMMER
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has agreed to co-fund with each English region a post of “Creative Programmer” to lead on the shaping and delivery of the Cultural Olympiad outside of London. The Creative Programmer’s role and responsibilities will be nationally led to ensure consistency across regions of the Cultural Olympiad. In the South East the position will be part funded by the DCMS and part funded by agencies including the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), Museum and Libraries Archives (MLA) and Arts Council South East (ACSE). A national advertising campaign for all the posts is expected in April, interviews in May, and hopefully the Creative Programmer in position July 07. The Kent Coordinating Group for the 2012 Games’ arts sectoral task group has indicated that Kent partners would be keen to host and support this post when in the east of the region.