The following examples of indicators for attendance have been taken from Sustainable Community Strategies up to the end of 2007 and round 1-3 Local Area Agreements:

• The percentage of people in the community who:
  • have attended an arts event
  • have visited a museum or gallery
  • have visited at least two historic environment sites
  • have visited a local visitor attraction
  • have used a park or open space
  • have used a public library service

at least (x) times per week/month/year (e.g. once a week, twice a month, once in the last 12 months etc)

• Use of local authority cultural and sports facilities – in particular by priority groups, for example amongst 11-19 year olds, social class D/E, over 60 year olds, BME, people with disabilities.
• The percentage of the adult population who are members of a sports club or club where they do sport.
• Active library borrowers as a percentage of the population.
• The take up of access to leisure cards (in targeted wards).
• Numbers of a) looked after children and b) vulnerable/need to reach groups accessing free/subsidised cultural and sports services.
• Number of older people receiving direct payments for cultural, leisure or recreational activities.
• Take up of culture, play and sport holiday schemes by young people, including young people with physical, sensory or learning disabilities and from BME groups.
• Number of young people attending summer reading schemes or homework clubs/study support based in libraries.
• Number of young people attending youth sports nights regularly.
• Numbers of swims and visits to pools and sports centres per 1000 population. 
• Number of visitors to (named) visitor attractions.
• Numbers of pupils/numbers of visits by education groups to Council museums/galleries/cultural facilities.
• Number of people receiving an ‘At Home’ Library Service as a percentage of the total number of older people helped to live at home.
• Number of books on prescription issued by GPs and lent by libraries.
  

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