Culture Matters - Thanet District Council’s Cultural Strategy

Appendix 1: Developing the strategy

In developing this strategy, the Council has taken into account other key strategies and documents that have been developed, at a national, regional and local level.

National level:

• Changing Lives and Places – Lessons from the Cultural Pathfinders (Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the Local Government Association)

• Winning: A tourism strategy for 2012 and beyond (Department of Culture, Media and Sport)

• Staying Ahead: The economic performance of the UK’s creative industries (Department of Culture, Media and Sport)

• Time for Play: encouraging greater play opportunities for children and young people (Department of Culture, Media and Sport)

• Developing Entrepreneurship for the Creative Industries (Department of Culture, Media and Sport)

Regional level:

• Regional cultural strategies

• The Regional Economic Strategy 2006-16 (South East England Development Agency)

• Demonstrating the Case for Culture (South East England Development Agency)

• Towards 2010 (Kent County Council)

• East Kent Partnership Delivery Plan 2006-08

• East Kent Partnership Strategy 2005-15

Local level:

• Thanet District Council Corporate Plan 2007 – 2011

• PPG17, the Open Space and Indoor Sport Audit, an independent report that assesses where the area has shortfalls and surpluses in provision

• Thanet District Council Residents’ Survey 2005, carried out by MORI

• Cultural Inspection (Audit Commission), results published in August 2006

• Comprehensive Performance Assessment (Audit Commission), results published in June 2007

• Community Strategy for Thanet

• Thanet District Council Economic Growth and Regeneration Strategy

Back: Developing the Strategy

Next: Key stakeholders - consultees

• What is culture?
• Why is culture important?
• Why produce a cultural strategy?
• Main consultation findings

Context:

• Local context
• Cultural context

Vision:

• Vision and Overarching Themes
• Underlying Principles
• Action Plan
• Evaluating delivery of the Cultural Strategy
• Cultural aspirations

Appendix 1: Developing the strategy

Appendix 2: Key Stakeholders - consultees