The Cultural Cornerstone is the regional cultural strategy. It sets out the main challenges and priorities for the culture and creative industries in the South East. The strategy has informed the business planning and work of Culture South East since 2001. It directly influenced the priorities set in its current Funding Agreement with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

The strategy sets out areas for action to meet six challenges:

• Challenge of Inclusion
• Challenge of Excellence
• Challenge of Learning
• Challenge of Recognition
• Challenge of Partnership and coherence
• Challenge of Support

The core priorities of Culture South East are currently:

• strategic regional cultural planning
• developing the evidence base for culture
• working with local authorities to embed culture into community plans
• advocating culture role in economic and social regeneration
• contributing to key regional plans and strategies
• promoting the contribution of culture to the sustainable communities agenda
• developing the contribution culture can make to the regional learning and skills agenda
• promoting sustainable business models

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