Agenda item

Report of the Managing Director.

Members received a report of the Managing Director providing updates from the Barbican Directors on their respective areas.

The Managing Director provided a brief update in respect of the Centre for Music, advising that a project director was to be appointed to help oversee phase two of the project. The appointee would need to be an individual with with experience of producing business cases in line with the expectations of HM Treasury who also had a track record of delivering large scale projects. The Managing Director would be considering the best mechanism by which to keep Members fully informed in the project and reassured the Board that he would be providing regular updates at meetings.

A Member, also the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, took the opportunity to comment on the success of the recent Lumiere event. The Director of Arts observed that this represented a strong example of the benefits of joint working and was confident that similarly successful collaborative events could be arranged in future.

Members also took the opportunity to comment on the Barbican’s success in respect of business events and attracting significant numbers of repeat clients.

RECEIVED.