Supporting Local Creativity
It’s time to put arts and culture back where it belongs—at the heart of a more hopeful future for Bournemouth with growth and new jobs in every community
Labour’s Access to the Arts Plan includes:
A Creative Education for Every Child, ensuring creative and cultural experiences at school to build confidence and essential skills such as communication, critical thinking, problem solving and teamwork.
A new National Music Education Network, to help parents, carers and teachers find resources and opportunities for children to kickstart a route into the arts.
Identify spaces to create across the UK to provide local arts and cultural institutions with the extra support needed to thrive, and defend our existing grassroots music venues, art galleries, pub and sports pitches.
Ban ticket touting and put an end to scammers ripping people off, putting fans back at the heart of music, cultural and sporting events where they belong.
Ensure there is access to art for everyone, everywhere by requiring publicly-funded national museums and galleries to increase their regional and national engagement, and loans to public spaces. A Labour Government will take art to schools, hospitals, town halls, community centres and shopping centres, as well as local museums and libraries.
Develop a financial model that works for the creative sector, crowding in private finance and working with the Creative Industries Council, Arts Councils and other funders to unleash the potential of this vibrant industry.
Promote cultural Britain around the world by introducing a new Digital Music Instruments Certificate to simplify and speed up the bureaucracy that prevents many musicians and arts organisations from touring.
Tom Hayes, Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Bournemouth East, said: “Bournemouth and Britain are already a world-leader in this field. This has everything to do with local people and their creativity rather than politicians. Labour in government will build on the success of local creatives, and fire up the engines of our artistic economy. As your Labour MP I would be a champion of the arts and work with you to help local people paint, perform, film, sing, dance, design, read and write a new more prosperous and joyous story for Bournemouth.”