About Us
About Us
Our Vision
W&SAA is a united voice for the arts. It provides a strategic overview and co-ordinating mechanism, adding value to artistic organisations and infrastructures.
Our Values
W&SAA believes that the collective voice of Wiltshire and Swindon can assert the following values more effectively:
- The arts and creativity are central to quality of life
- Everyone has creative potential; access to quality arts experiences is a universal right and must reflect identified community need
- Artistic and reative activity and its infrastructure, contribute to the lives of our community and should be championed and celebrated
- Dialogue with the region’s key decision makers is vital in order to inform strategic planning and ensure effective, sustainable delivery of the arts, maximising personal, social and economic benefits.
Arts and creativity play a distinctive and important part in the nation’s cultural life.
Our Resources
Our primary resource is our Partner organisations; who have committed their people, time and energy to promote and develop the arts and cultural activity in Wiltshire and Swindon
Our key sources of funding are ASE SW and the six local authorities in Wiltshire and Swindon. These funds are managed on behalf of W&SAA by Swindon Borough Council.
Our Structure
W&SAA’s Executive includes representatives from all our Partner organisations and from ACE SW. The Executive meets three times a year and the Chair and Vice Chair are elected annually.
Sitting under the Executive are a number of smaller Working Groups, who are tasked with delivering our specific actions for the year.
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