CREATIVE STIRLING
ORGANISATIONAL OBJECTIVES 2023-26
To secure a long term future for Creative Stirling’s presence within the city centre
To scale our capacity for new creative and cultural opportunities working with our communities
To achieve financial and environmental sustainability as creative community organisation
CREATIVE STIRLING SCIO
Creative Stirling’s charitable objectives are for the advancement of the arts and education. The charity reconstituted from a Charitable Company to a SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation) in March 2022. Since its foundation in 2012, Creative Stirling has delivered a range of activities based around three principles…
People: producing creative projects and events for people to enjoy
Partnerships: stimulating and nurturing creative opportunities for and with our network of communities
Place: driving and energising creative industry support through the city region and beyond.
OUR VISION
For Stirling to be known as a centre for inclusive creative enterprise, ensuring talent from all our communities has equal opportunity to thrive.
OUR MISSION
To transform the quality of life for people and communities in Stirling through culture and creativity.
OUR values
Ambition: passionate about raising the quality of creative prospects and practice in our city region
Sustainability: of our organisation, our communities, and our planet
Inclusiveness: being ‘open to all’ and engaging communities across Stirling
Partnership: advancing our aims through working collaboratively and with active integrity
OVERVIEW OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMME 2022
Last year, we provided free creative opportunities and skills development experiences for 475 young people, women, and families with young children through holiday projects, creating community exhibitions and a large outdoor community event, delivering creative workshops and other free and accessible artist-led activities to connect people with each other, learn new skills, and promote confidence and wellbeing. This number does not include the many visitors that attended our community exhibitions from recorded foot fall through our venue last year, estimated to be around 3,000 people.
Creative Stirling recently secured three-year funding from the National Lottery Community Fund - Young Start to deliver an initiative called ‘Community and Media Matters’ (CAMM), which is unique to the area. Co-working with Stirling Council Youth and Migrant family support services, LGBT+ Youth Forth Valley and others on principles of referral, it will provide a progressive ladder of media opportunities to inspire, connect, and support children & young people from communities experience multiple deprivation to be strong local citizens with better connections to their wider community through access to digital skills and training opportunities.
Creative Stirling also works with LGBT Youth Scotland to support LGBTQIA+ Young People aged 13-25 living in Forth Valley through creative learning projects to express and learn more about themselves and by providing safe space for our young LGBT community to connect and access support. Our LGBT youth projects provide opportunity to gain skills, address issues of discrimination and social stigma and improve mental health working with community partner organisations like Police Scotland.