- Provide specialist professional continuous development programmes to support the career of artists and creative practitioners.
- Offer a range of support services (consultation, project management, fundraising and financial advice) to other voluntary sector arts and cultural organisations as well as individual practitioners.
- Work with partner organisations to support their training and development needs and therefore increase the capacity of the sector.
"To use arts and culture as a vehicle to challenge and change dominant practice and values, by empowering individuals and communities to access and influence a range of arts employment, community development and economic regeneration".
Based in Liverpool City Centre we work with arts and creative practitioners from across the Merseyside region. We strongly identify with working with the most vulnerable groups in our society and with this in mind we have had a long relationship working closely with the BRM communities across Liverpool and helped support their development and training within the Creative Industries for many years, with many successes.
With regards to access to the LCAD building, we comply with all DDA requirements and we certainly believe in opportunity for all.
We are an established Training and Development Centre, we have historically delivered training for nearly 25 years and this will be part of the continuing process of delivery to our service users.
We encourage a range of non-formal practical art programmes and work with a range of voluntary and community organisations that both use and receive support from us to deliver these programmes at LCAD.
We have also managed the Outreach and Support for a grant fund called Arts and Culture Fund – Merseyside, working across Merseyside supporting local charitable organisations who wish to apply to this fund, providing guidance and support in the application process. This contract enabled us to build a large database of contacts across the V & C sector in Merseyside and widened the promotion of LCAD services to a larger audience of potential beneficiaries.
Resources Available
There are 3 training rooms and 1 ICT resource room with 12 terminals. We have a kitchen facility, a disabled accessible toilet on ground floor and a further toilet at 2nd Floor level. Rooms vary in size and we can facilitate training in Room 1 – 15, Room 2 – 20 and Room 3 – 30 approximate. We also have a middle floor which we intend to rent out on a long term lease.
We have a small car park outside of the building with provision for up to 10 car parking spaces, these are accessed on a first come, first served, basis only.
Public transport access
We are in the heart of Liverpool city centre, Brownlow Hill, with a bus stop approx 50 yards away from the building. We are near to both Lime Street Station and Central Train Station.
Linkages
We work across the V & C sector working in both Liverpool and across the other 5 boroughs. Our contacts are both with Local Authorities and Local Support Agencies working within the Creative Industries and across the V & C Sector. We also provide detailed information about our courses to Liverpool Jet, South Liverpool Personal and Job Centre Plus. We have received a number of referrals from these agencies who have accessed our provision.
Historically, the Centre has worked closely with the BRM communities and we have strong links with the Refugee and Asylum Seeker communities as well. Over 50% of our students are usually from BRM communities.
Our Patron: Professor Peter Roberts OBE
As Chair of the Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC), Peter is responsible for providing effective strategic leadership and is the principle link between the ASC Board and the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG).As well as leading the ASC, Peter is Professor of Sustainable Spatial Development at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds. He also advises Addleshaw Goddard on matters concerned with sustainable communities, regeneration, regional and urban planning and environmental management matters.
Nationally and internationally he is involved in numerous activities concerned with sustainable communities, regeneration, regional and urban planning and environmental management. He is currently Vice-President of the Town and Country Planning Association, Hon Vice-Chair of the Regional Studies Association, Chair of the Best Practice Committee of the British Urban Regeneration Association, Chair of the Planning Exchange Foundation and an adviser to the Local Government Association.
Peter has conducted research and provided advice for a wide range of UK, European and regional governments, partnerships and local authorities on governance, planning, sustainable communities, regeneration and environmental matters.
Peter is married with one son and is active in a number of charities and voluntary bodies, including Urban Mines. He is a keen narrowboater, a hill-walker, an avid reader and he supports Liverpool Football Club. He has written many books, reports and papers on urban and regional governance, planning, development, sustainable communities and regeneration, and the spatial dimension of environmental management and sustainable development. Some of his most recent books (some with other authors) include Metropolitan Planning in Britain; Environment, Planning and Land Use; Environmental Taxation; Environmentally Sustainable Business; Urban Regeneration: A Handbook; Learning from Experience; and Regional Planning and Development in Europe.
He is an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies (ACSS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and was awarded an OBE in 2004 for services to regeneration and planning.
February 2007
