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2 CONSULTATION WITH COMMUNITY PLANNING CONTACTS
Section 1: Project Background and Rationale
1. Please describe the Pathfinder project with which you have been involved in terms of its objectives, structure, activities and target groups?
2. What was the extent and nature of your involvement in the development of the project idea/ concept (i.e. prior to application)?
3. At a strategic level, what do you think the project intended to achieve? (probe here for links to Community Planning priorities, engagement of specific target groups, policy issues around widening access to culture etc)
4. Why did you (Community Planning) get involved in the Pathfinder? What did you expect/ hope to get from the project?
Section 2: Activities and Processes
5. Was the project connected into the Community Planning structures, budgets, and processes in your area? Probe for fit with Community Planning working groups, reporting structures, management arrangements, funding streams, etc. If project was connected, were these connections there at the outset or did they develop during the Pathfinder?
6. Was there an explicit fit with the Regeneration Outcome Agreement ( ROA) for your area, or actions targeted towards areas of multiple deprivation locally?
7. How well has the project fitted with the cultural activity being promoted or delivered by individual Community Planning partners? (statutory and voluntary sector)
8. As far as you are aware, has the project been implemented effectively and in the spirit of partnership? Probe for feedback on joint working, management, activities, etc.
9. What worked particularly well in this respect, and what did not? (probe for key points of learning around means of engagement and fit with Community Planning priorities, examples of good practice etc.)
10. Which elements, if any, do you think might be successfully replicated or transferred to other Community Planning Partnerships? What factors would be necessary to ensure success elsewhere?
11. To what extent, and in what ways, will the learning from the Pathfinder influence future activity in your area? Are there any specific plans in place at this stage to continue or mainstream any aspects of the Pathfinder?
Section 3: Achievements and Impacts
12. Please comment in the extent to which you think the Pathfinder project has been successful in:
a. engaging with Community Planning processes and structures
b. encouraging participation in cultural activity, particularly amongst 'hard to reach' groups
c. encouraging participation and input to the planning of future cultural provision
d. influencing key partners/ stakeholders (specify who) and raising the profile of culture across other service/ policy areas (e.g. regeneration, education etc)
13. What have been the impacts of the project on:
a. the Community Planning Partnership (e.g. raised profile of culture, increased use and participation in cultural provision, increased awareness of the benefits of working through and with the arts/ culture, enhanced buy-in/ support etc)
b. other key partners/ stakeholders (e.g. raised profile of culture, broadened understanding of role of culture across service/ policy areas etc)
c. participants (e.g. personal benefits, increased interest in culture etc)
d. the cultural sector in your area(s)
14. Have there been other benefits of the project not mentioned so far? Please describe.
15. What would have happened without the Pathfinder project? Would these impacts have been realised in other ways? Please expand.
16. Taking into account the cost of the project (including Scottish Government funding, match funding and in-kind support) do you believe it has offered value for money? Why do you say this?
17. What do you believe will be the longer-term legacy/ legacies of the project (if any)? Please expand.
Section 4: Final Comments
18. How appropriate is Community Planning as a vehicle for the delivery of planning for cultural provision in ways that address the interests of Community Planning partners (e.g. skills/ economic development, promoting health and well-being, community safety etc?)
19. What are the barriers (if any) to the effective integration of planning for cultural provision with Community Planning? How might these be overcome, and are there any lessons from the Pathfinder project?
20. Any final comments/ issues not covered in our discussion?
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