Agenda item

Joint report of the Managing Director and Chief Operating & Financial Officer.

The Board considered a joint report of the Managing Director and the Chief Operating & Financial Officer setting out the proposed business plan for the Barbican Centre for 2017/18.

It was noted that the business plan had been developed such that it corresponded with the Corporate Plan discussed at item 10 as well as the Barbican’s own Strategic Plan.

With reference to the developing business case for a prospective Centre for Music project, it was asked whether officers were confident that sufficient resource was in place to manage this whilst ensuring that there was no detrimental impact on the management of the Barbican itself. The managing Director advised that there was currently a very high degree of comfort in this area; however, he was conscious that this might need to be revisited in due course as the intensity of work increased ahead of any decision point in 2018. The situation was being actively monitored and considered carefully on an ongoing basis.

RESOLVED: That the high-level and detailed departmental business plans for the Barbican Centre be approved.