Did You Know?

Ballet

Margot Fonteyn was born in Reigate on 18 May 1919 as Margaret (Peggy) Hookham. She made her debut in 1934 with the Vic-Wells Theatre, and died in 1991. A statue to honour her is in Castlefield Road in the centre of Reigate.

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Improvement Agenda

The improvement agenda for culture and sport within local authorities is well established and has been supported by the launch of a national framework for improvement within culture and sport, called A Passion for Excellence: an improvement strategy for culture and sport.

The LGA says....

This strategy is about supporting local government as “leaders of place”, working with their local partners to deliver better outcomes, improve the quality of life locally and improve the delivery of cultural and sport services to local people.

The strategy sets a framework for improvement in the culture and sport sector and includes the mechanisms and tools to support self-improvement. It also clarifies the respective roles and responsibilities in delivering the strategy of all the major stakeholders in the culture and sport sector, in line with the National Performance Framework and the National Improvement and Efficiency Strategy.

Self-improvement tools have been developed independently by cultural agencies such as:

More recently, a Single Improvement Tool developed by a number of partners has been piloted as a response to the need for tool that covers culture and sport together. In the South East, this was introduced at the Local Government Improvement Strategy Conference in June 2008, which was hosted by Culture South East.