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• North East Lincolnshire , the wider Humber

region and beyond

• Engage, excite and inspire
• Widen access to arts and culture
• Increase engagement and participation
• Use arts as a tool to impact on perceptions and

place

• Celebrate and utilise the region’s unique

landscapes and spaces

• Support local talent and provide a platform for

national talent to increase their audience reach

Aims and objectives

Strategic touring

Outdoor arts – street arts, dance and circus

Future activity –

• Develop programme scope and artistic

ambition, laid foundation

• Include a Town Centre programme, CCP

approach, strategic

• Use more spaces and places, commission
• Introduce night-time activity
• NPO – local conditions, next time
• Impact and evidence

Barriers to development – Have been:

• Lack of local investment and buy in
• Discretionary investment no strategic justification
• Lack of cultural strategy or cultural inclusion in

strategies

• Lack of strategic lead
• Sector wasn’t part of development dialogue
• Larger bids hindered, stuck, ACE relationship
• 3 years ago natural progression / £90K fail

• Others facing same issues
• Initially led by a few organisations, artists

and individuals, council dialogue, listened

• Constituted, independent, sector led-

group, supported by ACE – development phase

• Voice for culture
• Represent the sector
• Influence and contribute to area’s strategies
• Engage with regional and national sector /

dialogue

25 members -

• Artists
• Organisations
• Venues
• Individuals
• Passionate and committed – quality offer
• Led by management team
• Networking, training, sector development ,

collaboration, links to national networks

• Positive, supportive, sharing space
• Social media activity – public group 350 members

Creative Start

We Must Create

Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust

• Support from Prince’s Regeneration Trust on

mission to preserve and develop a sustainable future for the derelict Grimsby Ice Factory on Grimsby Docks

• Unique Heritage Asset
• Listed Grade II* by English Heritage
• The last surviving ice factory with its machinery

still intact

Ice Factory

Kasbah

• Now

designated a conservation area

• Owners ABP,

NELC and Historic England

• Raise funds
• Back into use

Grimsby Central Hall

Arts and Community Venue 1930s concert halls

Sue Stone

Credible, international textile artist

New Street studios –

Artists Dale Mackie and Terry Clarke

Birdhouse Projects Ltd

Family arts engagement, programme and festival

Where are we now?

• Instrumental in NELC

commissioning cultural strategy

• Heavily contributed to strategy
• Draft – sector support
• Family activity
• CCF Fund – Cleethorpes 3.8 million
• £300K for events
• Lobbied for cultural investment,

develop existing – NELC joined CW

• Members on Coastal team
• Support visitor brands

Culture important to marketing the region / attracting visitors

“Greatest Story Never Told”

Collaboration – tell Grimsby’s Story

• “Greatest Story Never Told”
• Story of Grim the Viking coming from Denmark and

founding Grimsby

• R&D bid to ACE
• Artistic scope and potential
• National partners
• Danish connections
• Establish place-making, contemporary arts festival

for Grimsby – life beyond that story

• Engages and involved community
• Re-frames the narrative
• CCF

Watch this space! Thank you

charlotte@theculturehouse.co.uk contact@culture-works.org.uk