We work with a range of regional organisations to promote arts and the creative arts in the East Midlands.
The importance of culture, leisure and sport in addressing issues such as social inclusion, health and crime is becoming increasingly apparent. Government Offices work with a range of regional and local partners to identify where links can be made with other government programmes at local level.
Culture also has unequalled potential to enrich individual lives, enhance quality of life and reach out to communities which feel excluded.
The importance of culture, leisure and sport in addressing issues such as social inclusion, health and crime is becoming increasingly apparent. Government Office for the East Midlands works with a range of regional and local partners to identify where links can be made with other government programmes at a local level.
Government Office aims
Government Office provides a regional focus for the Department for Culture Media and Sport’s (DCMS) national policies and programmes on:
- sport
- arts
- museums, libraries and archives
- heritage and architecture
- the creative industries, including film and broadcasting, tourism, the lottery, licensing and gambling.
We promote the work of the DCMS and its sponsored bodies in the regions. This includes developing partnerships and facilitating linkages between us and DCMS and the wider cultural sector within the region to promote a shared understanding of regional cultural needs and to play a full part in the development of cultural policies in the region.
One of our key tasks in this area is to assist DCMS in the sponsorship of Culture East Midlands (the Regional Cultural Consortium) including monitoring, promoting and facilitating the implementation of the Regional Cultural Strategy.
We are developing and delivering Government policies that enable a vibrant, healthy and prosperous region.
We ensure that DCMS policy is embedded across the work of the whole of the Government Office and that this contributes directly to the achievement of Government Office in-year priorities such as Sustainable Communities Growth Areas, European Regional Development Fund delivery, Neighbourhood Renewal, Health and Physical Activities.
