New Anglia LEP Culture Board Development

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Services to support the development of the New Anglia LEP Culture Board. The New Anglia LEP Culture Board works collaboratively to build the cultural economy in the East. The Board provides a focus for decision making and leadership regarding cultural issues, opportunities, strategies, programmes and projects. The Board started in 2011 and has successfully developed and delivered a range of initiatives including Look Sideways East - building cultural tourism ( 2014 - 2020), StartEast - building the cultural economy (2016 - 2019) and Collaboration, Place Change - transforming leadership (2020 - 2022). We now need to create the structures, plans and projects to underpin the cultural sector's recovery from the COVID-19 economic recession and maximise the role of the cultural sector in regional recovery. We are seeking to commission a team of experienced consultants to work with us to: a) Review the purpose, efficiency and effectiveness of the New Anglia LEP Culture Board and to prepare options for its development over the next ten years. b) Create an open source, economic data pack to inform and measure the Culture Board's work and to enable its partners, stake holders and cultural organisations, to measure, build and support effective culture led growth. c) Refresh our Strategy, Culture Drive Growth, establishing a new ten-year vision, with a comprehensive delivery plan, reflecting our role in placemaking, inward investment, skills and inclusive growth. d) Build on the success of StartEast and develop a comprehensive programme of cultural and creative enterprise development. The value of this contract is ?45,000. Completion is required by April 2021