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3 CONSULTATION WITH LOCAL AUTHORITY 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 cross-service working, cross authority collaboration, links to Community Planning, engagement of specific target groups, policy issues around widening access to culture etc)
4. Why did you get involved in the Pathfinder? What did you expect/ hope to get from the project?
Section 2: Activities and Processes
5. Please describe the means by which the Pathfinder project worked across the authority and with external partners. Probe for the range of partners involved and the means of engagement.
6. What worked well in this respect, and what did not? (probe for key points of learning around means of engagement with under-represented groups, and engagement and fit with local authority and Community Planning priorities, examples of good practice etc.)
7. To what extent, and in what ways, will these lessons influence future activity?
Section 3: Achievements and Impacts
8. 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. influencing planning for future cultural provision in ways that address identified community needs and aspirations
d. encouraging participation and input to the planning of future cultural provision
e. influencing key partners/ stakeholders and raising the profile of culture across other service/ policy areas (e.g. regeneration, education etc)
9. What have been the impacts of the project on:
a. your organisation (e.g. raised profile of 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 local community life and active involvement in culture etc)
d. the cultural sector in your area(s)
10. Have there been other benefits of the project not mentioned so far? Please describe.
11. What would have happened without the Pathfinder project? Would these impacts have been realised in other ways? Please expand.
12. 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?
13. What do you believe will be the longer-term legacy/ legacies of the project (if any)? Please expand.
Section 4: Final Comments
14. How appropriate is Community Planning as a vehicle for the delivery of planning for cultural provision?
15. 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?
16. Any final comments/ issues not covered in our discussion?
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