Overall Presentation looking at the Arts and the context of the Investment

Review

Arts Council of Wales Investment Review

Who have we been talking to?

• The Nationals • WAPA and Creu Cymru• VAGW• An invited Music Sector workshop• AD UK• National Advisers, Council and Staff• An invited group of Community Arts

organisations

What this presentation recaps :The Issues

• delivering Inspire… through the Investment Review

• where we are now, compared to 2010

• the Welsh Government’s expectations

• the financial context

make : reach : sustain

The Welsh Government’s expectations

• Number of participants that actively engage in their activities

• RFO’s contribution to tackling poverty, including the number of people they reach that are at risk of disengaging from education, or are unemployed

• The extent of exposure given to Wales, nationally and internationally, that arises from RFO activities

• The return on investment in terms of jobs and growth, and on our other key policy agendas around tourism, education, health and sustainability

Where we are now• Less flexibility, compared to 2010

• The “double whammy” – most RFOs suffering cuts in national and local funding

• Trust and foundations ‘nursing’ their capital

• Sponsorship environment challenging

• Welsh Government demanding and testing value for money

£995,000

-11%

Current Funding

Local Authority Total All (2013/14)

Total Funding Per Capita

North WalesWrexham 442,895£ 3.25£ Flintshire 2,236,934£ 14.60£ Denbighshire 960,034£ 10.16£ Conwy 1,357,850£ 11.72£ Isle_of_Anglesey 730,962£ 10.43£ Gwynedd 2,526,754£ 20.73£ North Wales Total 8,255,429£ 11.93£

South West WalesPowys 2,343,628£ 17.66£ Ceredigion 1,832,093£ 24.12£ Carmarthenshire 2,122,511£ 11.49£ Pembrokeshire 951,343£ 7.72£ Swansea 2,552,692£ 10.62£ Neath_and_Port_Talbot 975,518£ 6.97£ South West Wales Total 10,777,785£ 12.02£

Local Authority Total All (2013/14)

Total Funding Per Capita

South Central WalesBridgend 1,225,007£ 8.72£ Cardiff 22,967,579£ 65.30£ Vale_of_Glamorgan 544,568£ 4.28£ Rhondda_Cynon_Taf 1,028,874£ 4.36£ Merthyr_Tydfil 286,255£ 4.85£ South Central Wales Total 26,052,282£ 28.49£

South East WalesTorfaen 348,653£ 3.81£ Monmouthshire 348,465£ 3.78£ Newport 936,773£ 6.39£ Caerphilly 251,290£ 1.40£ Blaenau_Gwent 439,065£ 6.29£ South East Wales Total 2,324,246£ 4.01£

Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation

Local AuthorityNo. of LSOA

WIMD (10% most deprived 1-

191)

% LSOAs in the top 10% most deprived

areas in Wales Local AuthorityNo. of LSOA

WIMD (10% most deprived 1-

191)

% LSOAs in the top 10% most deprived

areas in WalesNorth Wales South Central WalesWrexham 85 5 5.9 Bridgend 88 9 10.2Flintshire 92 2 2.2 Cardiff 214 37 17.3Denbighshire 58 8 13.8 Vale_of_Glamorgan 79 4 5.1Conwy 71 4 5.6 Rhondda_Cynon_Taf 154 27 17.5Isle_of_Anglesey 44 1 2.3 Merthyr_Tydfil 36 8 22.2Gwynedd 73 3 4.1 South Central Wales Total 571 85 14.9North Wales Total 423 23 5.4

South West Wales South East WalesPowys 79 1 1.3 Torfaen 60 3 5.0Ceredigion 46 1 2.2 Monmouthshire 56 0 0.0Carmarthenshire 112 5 4.5 Newport 95 14 14.7Pembrokeshire 71 4 5.6 Caerphilly 110 14 12.7Swansea 148 18 12.2 Blaenau_Gwent 47 11 23.4Neath_and_Port_Talbot 91 12 13.2 South East Wales Total 368 42 11.4South West Wales Total 547 41 7.5

WHAT DOES INSPIRE HAVE TO SAY?• Supporting artists

• Fit for Purpose: Showing strong and innovative creative ambitions• In the case of a national…demonstrate how it is national• Make more of environmental and physical assets• Demonstrate fitting international connectivity• Making art part of lives• Nurturing talent • Putting communities first• Making new places• Integrating digital

Looking at what we say in Inspire…on

Venues

Making More Of our Arts Buildings…inseparable from thecommunities in which they’re

located and to which they relate

Many recognise that they are as much a social as a cultural hub and that the two are indivisible.

We support this emphasis on communityconnection. But ultimately we are an ArtsCouncil. So we’re particularly interested in

those organisations that are arts led andaudience focused, with spaces owned andinhabited by the communities in which theyare embedded.

Their brief we see is

one of creative community renewal - somethingyou can feel and see when you experience thebuilding and what it has to offer.

Creating the right environment for theartist and the arts to flourish

We know we can provide support at key moments in an artist’s career. Whether working singly or together, locally or globally, our goal is to create the circumstances in which our artists can pursue viable, sustainable careers from a Welsh base.

Our support for the individual artist will continue to be built on developing the foundations of our Creative Wales and Creative Wales Ambassadors and production grants, and the existing support that we offer for training and in-career development.

We want to go further. We want to see more creative partnerships forged between artists and arts venues, encouraging those venues to provide the advice, facilities and resources that artists need to develop their work.

Looking at what we say in Inspire…on

Nationals

For a small nation we have high performing national companies. They have a challenging remit to produce great work and connect across the country. The challenge is to do this in a credible and meaningful way, delivering real engagement and involvement with communities across Wales in the excellent work that they do.

Each national company needs to start from the question ‘how are we national?’

Wales and its three million people have a right to ask not just how national companies exemplify their flagship designation, but how do they connect with people in Wales?

For our national companies being national is a responsibility, not an assumed right. It brings with it a particular obligation to be an exemplar in every way: creating work of national and international significance; showing leadership in developing the arts in Wales; nurturing the partnerships and relationships that will develop new artists; building the arts audiences of the future.

Looking at what we say in Inspire…on

Visual Arts

Whilst the performing arts have flagshipnational companies, there are other areasof our national life without a fully-fledged‘national’ entity. Five years ago discussionfocussed around the need for a national centre for the visual arts. Since then, the National Museum has extended its space and created welcome additional capacity for exhibiting the contemporary visual arts. But the wider need remains. There’s huge national potentialin the contemporary visual arts and crafts.An important aspect of our strategy over thecoming period must be to explore how tobring about a sustainable and appropriatenational platform for contemporary visual andapplied arts.

Making more of our Arts buildings

At their best, they not only pursue excellence in all that they do, they

are also inseparable from the communities in which they’re located and to which they relate… Many recognise that they are as much a social as a cultural hub and that the two are indivisible.We support this emphasis on community connection. But ultimately we are an Arts

Council. So we’re particularly interested in those organisations that are arts led and audience focused, with spaces owned and inhabited by the communities in which they are embedded. These are arts organisations that understand the role they play in local communities and work hard to build their owndistinctive sense of place. Their brief we see is one of

creative community renewal -

Making new placesOur work around Art in the Public Realm has convinced us that we need to pay more attention to the meeting point between people, art, architecture, environment and design.We believe that well designed schemes, ones developed with engagement, creativity and imagination, are more likely to win community support, promote social well being and encourage more sustainable economic development. In short, we want to

promote a creative approach to regeneration.

Looking at what we say in Inspire…on

Community Arts

We need to make sure our funding supports different kinds of arts and reaches a greater range of artists and communities. We want more people in Wales to be able to choose to make the arts a partof their lives. We know the arts in Wales will be stronger, more exciting and more relevant if they embrace more people. The arts still tend to be seen as for the most privileged in society. We need to change this. For some the place of the arts is unquestioned and economically and socially it seems natural to them. For others the arts continue to feel alien, remote, not for them, beyond their experience or marginal to their concerns or marginalised by prejudice or preconceptions.

The central challenge posed to us by theWelsh Government is to ensure that thewealth of the arts and the experiences theygive are accessed by more people. Different means of engagement mean different sorts of project – finding different ways to connect with people. The arts as celebration, the arts as the organising principle underpinning planning, the arts as the basis of protest and dissent, the arts as surprise, contradiction and discomfort, the arts as the connective force that binds individuals and communities together. If the art is good it will also extend its audience.

Looking at what we say in Inspire…on

Equalities

we recognise the dynamic force of artthat’s truly inclusive and makes use of

talents of all members of our society. We’ll work with the organisations we fund to help them build inclusion and equalities into their work and we’ll support training in this area. We’ll foreground best practice and seek inroads through those whom we fund as organisations, to adopt this agenda more strongly as a characteristic of their approach.

Non-Capital Lottery Grants Awarded in 2010/11 per Artform

Non-Capital Lottery Grants Awarded in 2013/14 per Artform

Revenue Grants (including Transition & FAW Delegated Funding)

Awarded in 2010/11 per Artform

Revenue Grants & FAW Delegated Funding

Awarded in 2013/14 per Artform

Revenue (& Transition) Funding in 2010-11 per Sector

Total RFO Funding in 2010-11 per Sector

RFO Non-Capital Lottery Funding in 2013-14

per Sector

Revenue Funding in 2013-14per Sector

Total RFO Funding in 2013-14per Sector