Is the puzzle is now coming together…
The ‘Culture and Sport Partnership Strategy 2009 – 2012′ is going to Croydon Council Cabinet this evening (12 October). This also brings into question how you can have a strategy for a year that is almost finished. It would have been better to call it a 2 year strategy?
You can read the cabinet papers here
New proposals include a ‘Theatres Consortium’ to replace the much hyped ‘Arts Trust’ only problem with this is that it only includes the Clocktower and Fairfield. So in other words it looks like the Council is trying to extend its reach to control the Fairfield. What other purpose would a Consortium be formed for containing only one independent Charity and the Council?
These papers also shed light on the £100,000 feasibility study that the Council is going to pay for on the Fairfield. Once again the council makes the mistake of putting money into external consultants without investing in the existing organisations. Will the council still stump up the £200,000 a year maintenance that the Fairfield desperately relies on if they are planning to spend £100,000 to see what an external consultant wants to do with the place? We will have to wait and see on this one.
Once again we see a paper written that is void of any solid commitments, but full of buzzwords and laudable aims.
Why can the council not articulate what it wants from the Arts in Croydon, or sit down in an old fashioned workshop with the Fairfield, Warehouse and London Mozart Players and work out ways of developing the Arts for the 360,000 residents that the Council is meant to serve.
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