On the 8th August 2024 Cabinet approved the Dudley Borough Cultural Strategy. It sets out a 10 year vision, a set of outcomes that the strategy should achieve. Including five themes which should shape activity forward. These contain proposals for the governance, structures and resources that may assist delivery of the actions, outcomes and vision.
The strategy seeks to achieve the following outcomes for the borough:
- Increased numbers of people and organisations will be able to produce cultural activity
- Cultural activity will support increased vibrancy and activity on local high streets and within neighbourhoods.
- There will be a greater variety of cultural activity, reflecting the changing ethnicity and demographics of the borough.
- There will be increased ambition within the cultural sector
- Greater numbers of people will take part in culture - diverse and multi-generational, reflecting the change demographics of the borough.
- New cultural clusters will be formed and external cultural organisations will choose to locate to the borough, forming a new cohesive cultural ecology.
- The profile of the borough will be raised, supporting higher levels of growth for the culture, creative and tourism sectors.
Five Key Themes
- Theme 1: investing in capacity building to build stronger resilience within the creative and cultural sectors
- Theme 2: continuing to invest in skills development to support future culture leaders and to support life-long learning
- Theme 3: increased diversity of programming
- Theme 4: fostering and adopting a more collaborative culture
- Theme 5: having ambition regarding cultural infrastructure and production.
The Dudley Borough Cultural Strategy works in conjunction with the Dudley Borough Economic Regeneration Strategy (ERS) (2024), Dudley Place-based Strategy (2024) and Dudley Local Plan.
