The purpose of this toolkit is to support Local Strategic Partnerships to embed culture and sport within their Local Area Agreement, and to raise awareness of the important contribution that culture and sport can bring to community life.

What the toolkit does
The toolkit aims to link culture to national and regional strategies as well as with key policy areas, to help support local authority officers who want to make a strong case for culture so that it is recognised as a local priority. We aim to keep the toolkit up to date with key policy changes as they happen and at regular times throughout the year. The section “How to use the toolkit” provides clear information about how to get best use out of the toolkit.

Who the toolkit is for
The toolkit is aimed primarily at LSP chairs, Chief Executives, Local Area Agreement co-ordinators, the local authority elected member Culture portfolio holder and the Directors of Culture and Leisure services. The toolkit aims to raise awareness of the impact culture and sport can have on a range of key priorities within a local authority area and therefore would also be a useful tool to all key policy leads and their supporting partnerships, such as Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships, Children and Young Peoples Strategic Partnership as well as to Directors of Children’s services and Primary Care Trust Chief Executives and their staff.

Who developed the toolkit
The toolkit has been co-developed by a number of regional agencies who want to promote the culture and sport agenda within the region. The project was led by the Government Office for the South East in partnership with Culture South East, the South East England Development Agency, the Learning and Skills Council, Museums Libraries and Archives South East, Arts Council England South East, Sport England, English Heritage and Tourism South East. All organisations wish to acknowledge and to give thanks to the consultants who created the content of the toolkit- Yvonne Barker of Yew Consulting and Angela Watson of Angela Watson & Associates, as well as to Louise Etheridge, Manager of the South East Cultural Observatory which hosts the Toolkit.

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