North Lanarkshire Council’s Co-Produced Arts Strategy
“A constructive approach to creativity in North Lanarkshire 2023-28”
The North Lanarkshire Council Arts Development Team, which sits in Active & Creative Communities, believes that creativity is essential for the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities, and that it can be used to tackle a wide range of social and environmental issues.
The team has a vision of integrating creativity into the heart of the council’s multi-sectoral strategic planning. To achieve this vision, the team will focus on increasing its visibility, developing effective impact reporting mechanisms, securing budget autonomy, understanding, and applying the social prescribing model, utilising its digital creative assets map, and embodying an ethos of co-production, co-design, continuous learning, and experimentation.
We are committed to working with local communities and partners to create a greener, more inclusive, and creative North Lanarkshire by using the arts to tackle inequalities within the region, taking a sustainable approach to our work to reduce the department’s carbon footprint.
You can read our 2023-2028 strategy “A constructive approach to creativity in North Lanarkshire“ or view our NLC Arts Development Strategy Video.