Southern Culture
Did You Know?
Employment
South East’s creative and cultural industries provide jobs for 560,000 people, and contribute an annual turnover of some £46.5 billion to the region. Between 1995 and 2000 employment in the sector grew rapidly - by 28.4 per cent. In employment terms the sector is one of the most significant one the South East – it employs 13.2 per cent of the regional workforce.
Creating Cultural Opportunities
in development
Creating Cultural Opportunities in Sustainable Communities is a national project funded by the Government's Invest to Save initiative to create a Cultural Planning Toolkit. The toolkit will provide a set of tools that helps people to embed culture in the sustainable communities agenda at a local level. This will help planners in the South East get to grips with ensuring cultural activity is embedded in the Thames Gateway, Milton Keynes South Midlands and the Ashford growth areas.
The toolkit will cover
- assessing cultural infrastructure needs
- planning for its provision and sustainable management
- securing developer contributions
The draft toolkit is due to be produced later this year, and dissemination and publication will take place in early 2008.
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