Heritage, Arts and Culture

Background

The North East Culture Partnership brings together practitioners, local authorities, universities, colleges, businesses and voluntary organisations to champion, promote and support the arts, culture and heritage sectors. Both of the region’s Local Enterprise Partnerships recognise arts, culture and heritage as assets that create employment and growth by underpinning the region’s offer to investors and tourists. In every corner of the region, philanthropy has nurtured the development of these assets as the history of the Berwick Film and Media Festival, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Sage Gateshead and  Kynren Festival show. But in some parts of the region, the cultural offer is much less developed.

Arts, culture and heritage activities can enable local people to understand themselves and their communities, and to think about how to improve them. A range of outreach projects and small community arts organisations have a significant role to play in improving quality of life.