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Developing a creative economy and community is about ensuring that people gain access to cultural activities and have a chance to participate and develop their skills and see the possibilities that these offer.
Over the last 8 years, we have pioneered the use of cultural and arts projects to deliver a wide variety of social outcomes and benefits. Projects have involved people with many different backgrounds all of whom have benefited from arts activities designed to improve their self-confidence and self-esteem, sociability and social integration, deliver health improvements and to teach and develop creative and life skills
Today, developments in the arts stress the value of participation. When young people 'customise' their clothes in a way that the fashion industry later copies, or when digital copying leads to wholesale changes on the part of recording companies, we can see these processes at work very clearly.
These few pages will give you a flavour of what we do, who does it, who commissions it and the success we are having.