Agenda item

To receive the report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services Department

The Committee received the report of the Director of Community & Children’s Services setting out key information relating to the first year of the City’s Cultural and Creative Learning (CCL) funding model, noting also that 12 projects were awarded money from the CCL budget to the combined cost of £184,315, and that funding from one project was returned as the project was not completed leading to an actual spend of £170,115. Members noted that 3,220 participants took part across the completed projects.

Members also noted the summary of findings from the evaluations returned by partners at the end of project delivery together with an overview of the projects. 

In response to a question on what learnings, of any, were being applied to the current year, the meeting heard that the evaluation model is to be adjusted, and that visuals will be gathered from every project.

A Member commented that the words ‘racism’ and ‘slavery’ featured on the word cloud shown on page 2 of Appendix 2 and asked for further information on that, noting that it might benefit students more to learn poetry for its own sake rather than through any kind of misleading lens. The meeting noted that the organisation Poetry VS Colonialism was involved in some of the projects which will have accounted for those terms.