City of York Council’s Inclusive Arts Team

Inclusive Arts’ Key Aims are to:

• Enhance the quality of life for York’s residents through participation in arts andf creative activities especially those living in deprived neighbourhoods or who are in other ways disadvantaged.
• Remove barriers to ensure residents can share in the city’s cultural, economic, environmental and social well-being.

This will be achieved by focusing on the following objectives:

• Encouraging and nurturing the creative potential and energy of children and young people
• Promoting inter-generational understanding
• Valuing and making the most of the experience and knowledge of older people
• Promoting and supporting good citizenship through volunteering and contribute to the development of the role and capacity of the third sector
• Fostering greater understanding and positive contact between different cultures and communities
• Responding positively to the changing black and minority ethnic population in the city.