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Call for Quotes: Cultural Strategist for 10-Year Ashfield Cultural Statement & Framework

OVERVIEW

Ashfield District Council on behalf of The Ashfield Arts Partnership and Ashfield Creates is looking to appoint a Cultural Strategist to work with Communities, Arts Partners, wider partnerships and council teams to lead, design and create a bold 10-year Cultural Statement and Framework for Ashfield that will run from 2025-2035.

The statement and framework will be ambitious and enable transformation in the cultural and creative life of Ashfield in practical, achievable steps and phases. It will be a piece of work that convenes partnerships with wider shared objectives and strategies affecting Ashfield over the coming 10 years which combined will make Ashfield a better place to live, work and create.

The statement will be developed over the course of Summer and Autumn 2024 with the expectation that the finished Framework will be published and adopted by the end of 2024. 

Ashfield has recently been awarded £1,000,000 as part of an Arts Council England place-based partnership grant for a new community-led arts programme: Ashfield Creates. The Ashfield Creates programme will be a key strategic deliverer and enabler of the first years of the Cultural Statement and Framework as well as vital capacity for supporting the legacy of the place-partnership fund.

 

BRIEF SPECIFICATION

  • To produce an outcomes based Cultural Statement that focuses on the role Arts, Culture and Creative activities and engagement can play in supporting the transformation of Ashfield over a 10 year period. This includes Cultures role in:
    • Early Years and Families
    • Education & Young Adults
    • Economic Growth & Prosperity
    • Health & Wellbeing
  • To produce a proactive Cultural Framework & Action Plan that enables the Cultural Statement and acts as a working guide and plan for the wider cultural sector to realise, iterate and achieve the Cultural Statement by 2035.
  • To ensure that through the development and production of both The Cultural Statement and Framework local communities, independent artists, arts partners and wider place-based-partnerships in the area will be embedded into the development process.
  • To ensure that The Cultural Statement and Framework are connected to wider arts and  place-based strategies, such as: Arts Council England’s Let’s Create; Ashfields Towns Investment Plan, East Midlands Combined County Authority Priorities; Nottinghamshire County Council Cultural Strategy and other appropriate strategies.

 

KEY DATES & MILESTONES

Monday 2nd September 2024 at 10am – Deadline for Proposals

Wednesday 18th September 2024 – Interviews 

Interviews will ideally be in person at a venue in Ashfield (TBC) but an online option is available. Please make it clear in your proposal if you are able to make an interview in person or not.

October & November 2024 – Public Consultation and Partner Meetings

End of November 2024 – Draft Review & Workshopping

December 2024/January 2025 – Framework & Statement Launched

 

HOW TO APPLY

Please download this info pack to read the full brief and call for quotes.

Ashfield Creates: Cultural Strategist Brief Download

 

QUESTIONS & CONTACT

If you have any questions about this call for proposals, please contact us via the contact form at ashfieldcreates.co.uk/contact and someone will be in touch with you soon.