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Culture and Libraries Peer Challenges
The LGA and Arts Council England are providing the opportunity for councils to participate in a fully funded peer challenge of their cultural or library services. These can be tailored to your local needs and the expert peer challenge team will spend 1.5 days in your council meeting key councillors, officers and partners, and seeing your work in both theory and practice.
This Girl Can - Fit Got Real Campaign
Sport England has launched the latest phase of its This Girl Can campaign, Fit Got Real, which aims to tackle the inequalities in levels of exercise between different social groups of women.
Having already inspired almost three million women to be more active since launching in 2015, This Girl Can’s new campaign is showing images and telling stories of the realities of getting active for many women.
Along with the new adverts and online film, This Girl Can’s website and social channels will showcase women talking about how they fit exercise into their lives, the benefits and the negative perceptions and barriers they overcame to be more active.
Heritage at Risk Registers 2018
Historic England has announced the annual Heritage at Risk register. In total, there are 5,160 entries on the 2018 Heritage at Risk Register, 94 less than in 2017. Over the past year, Historic England has spent nearly £10 million in grants to help some of the country’s best loved and most important historic sites.
Evidence to regenerating seaside towns and communities committee
The LGA submitted evidence relating to the findings of the work we have conducted into cultural led-regeneration to the government’s select committee looking into the regeneration of seaside towns and communities.
Evaluation of the Libraries: Opportunities For Everyone innovation fund
Traverse have published an evaluation of the LOFE fund launched by DCMS in 2016. The fund was primarily intended to provide library users and communities with opportunities to remove or reduce disadvantage and enable library services to develop innovative practices that meets the needs of people and places experiencing disadvantage.
Sport and Physical Activity Conference 2018, London, 5 December
This year’s conference will feature a good mix of keynote speakers, including 11 times Paralympic gold medalist Baroness Tanni-Grey Thompson, who will talk about the latest challenges, innovations and solutions within the sport and physical activity sector.
Delegates will also have the opportunity to participate in workshops, where topics will be discussed in detail as well as networking opportunities with like-minded individuals.
LGA Culture, Tourism and Sport Conference 2019, The Guildhall, London, 5-6 March 2019
Be sure to save the date for our 2019 flagship Annual Conference, hosted by the City of London Corporation in their Guildhall. The theme this year is culture-led regeneration and will focus on the launch of our research into how councils can transform their communities using culture. We are also delighted to offer walking tours covering the City’s Cultural Mile, Waltham Forest and Brent as the first London Boroughs of Culture, and a tour of the British Library. Further details to come.
Leadership Essentials Culture Events for Portfolio Holders
We are coming together at a critical time for publicly funded cultural services. Through your participation in the event, we hope to support you to respond to the challenges and explore the opportunities posed by a changing political economic landscape, single cultural offer, transforming culture through new delivery models, commissioning and public health reforms. We will also be discussing the contribution of culture to wider community outcomes.
- Monday 10 December – Tuesday 11 December 2018
- Thursday 24 January – Friday 25 January 2019
Places are limited to one member per council. Accommodation, meals, course materials and delegate fees are funded. Accommodation is available for the night before. To book your place, please email grace.collins@local.gov.uk
Leadership Essentials Sport and Physical Activity Events for Portfolio Holders
Following 16 successful Leadership Essentials Sport programmes in the last five years, the LGA and Sport England are pleased to offer further programmes to assist cabinet members/portfolio holders with the responsibility for sport to lead transformational change in their service. It is also a very beneficial experience for new portfolio holders.
- Thursday 28 February – Friday 1 March 2019, Warwick Conferences, Coventry CV4 7SH
Places are limited to one member per council. Accommodation, meals, course materials and delegate fees are funded. Accommodation is available for the night before. To book your place, email grace.collins@local.gov.uk
£40 million funding for historic high streets
England’s struggling historic high streets are to be regenerated with £40m Government funding that will be delivered by extending Historic England’s successful Heritage Action Zone initiative. The substantial funding was announced in the Autumn Budget (29 October 2018).
Creative Industries Clusters
Led by the Arts and Humanities Research Council within UKRI, the £80 million programme. Creative Industries Clusters in Bristol, Leeds, London, York, Cardiff, Belfast, Dundee and Edinburgh will bring together creative hubs with researchers and businesses to boost their world-leading status.
LGA Culture Hub
This online hub, developed by the LGA and Arts Council England, highlights good practice in the delivery of cultural services by councils and their partners.
One particularly illuminating example is Creativity Works. a local charity using creativity as a catalyst for personal and social development. Until April 2017, it was commissioned directly by Bath and North East Somerset Council, now through the contractors Virgin Care, to deliver a mental health creative support service through co-production with service users. Participants can join free weekly groups which cover creative and social interests such as photography and rambling, writing and cooking.
Be part of the LGA's Innovation Zone
Do you use creative ideas to tackle local issues? Have you taken a big risk that has paid off? If so, you could be part of next year’s Innovation Zone, a vibrant, creative space and programme within the LGA’s Annual Conference and Exhibition, taking place from 2-4 July 2019 in Bournemouth. Take the plunge! Tell your story, share your lessons and help others multiply your success.
Local partnership working for a vibrant night time economy
A report published by LGiU and Portman Group based upon a survey of over 100 council leaders, cabinet members, chief officers and service directors in English local authorities on their approach to managing the evening and night time economy.
VisitEngland Business Advice Hub
A new Hub has been set up by VisitEngland designed to provide tools to help tourism business to grow - with practical tips, legal obligations and local support.
Ground Staff Survey
The Institute of Groundsmanship (IOG) is currently conducting research into the sector to assess the conditions in which groundsmen/women and greenkeepers are operating and the contribution it makes to sport and the economy. The IOG will present the outcomes of its research to organisations across sport, local/national government and funding organisations.
Please pass on the details of the survey to your grounds staff.
New physical activity resource for health professionals
The digital Moving Medicine tool is a new resource that will improve conversations about physical activity between patients and healthcare professionals. The tool, produced by the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine in partnership with Public Health England and Sport England, focuses on helping to address the most common long-term health conditions.
National Graduate Development Programme 2018/19 council information pack
Known as the ngdp, the LGA’s flagship management trainee programme offers councils a unique opportunity to grow their own local government leaders.
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'first' is LGA's membership magazine and is received as a hard copy by over 18,000 councillors and 400 Chief Executives. In a response to demand, we have made it easier to read online by creating a dedicated website to read all of its articles, interviews and opinion pieces.
Both the hard copy and online pdf are still available to readers, and subscriptions can be amended online.
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