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4 CONSULTATION WITH WIDER STAKEHOLDERS
Section 1: Project Background and Rationale
1. What has been the nature of your involvement with/ interest in the Scottish Government's Cultural Pathfinders programme?
2. What is your understanding of the aims and objectives of the Programme? (probe here for policy drivers, planning for culture and Community Planning, engagement of specific target groups, widening access to culture etc)
Section 2: Supported Activities and Processes
3. What is your understanding of the kinds of projects supported by the Programme (probe for aims and objectives of supported projects, nature of project activities etc)
4. To what extent do you think the projects are well aligned with the objectives of the programme?
Section 3: Achievements and Impacts
5. Please comment in the extent to which you think the Pathfinder projects have been successful in:
a. engaging with Community Planning processes, structures and partners
b. engaging marginalised groups and encouraging their involvement with their local community through their participation in cultural activity
c. encouraging active participation in culture by those groups who had not taken part previously, and/or their input to the planning of future cultural provision
d. influencing key partners/ stakeholders and raising the profile of culture across other service/ policy areas (e.g. regeneration, education etc)
6. What have been the impacts of the Programme on:
a. your organisation (e.g. raised profile of culture, enhanced buy-in/ support, learning gains 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, increased interest in local neighbourhood etc)
d. the cultural sector more widely
7. Have there been other benefits not mentioned so far? Please describe.
8. What would have happened without the Pathfinder Programme? Would these impacts have been realised in other ways? Please expand.
9. What elements of the project did not work so well, and what actions were taken to address these issues - what are the key lessons?
10. 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? (and how was match funding levered?)
11. What do you believe will be the longer-term legacy/ legacies of the project (if any)? Please expand.
Section 4: Final Comments
12. How appropriate is Community Planning as a vehicle for the delivery of planning for cultural provision?
13. 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 Programme?
14. Any final comments/ issues not covered in our discussion?
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