On July 16th we were welcomed to Dragon Hall to hear from Chris Gribble and Hannah Garrard on Art, Learning, and Place in Norwich.

1. Norwich Networking Breakfast
16.07.19
@norfolkchamber @norfolkchamber
Norfolk Chamber of Commerce
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2. Your Customer Experience Team
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3. Chris Gribble, CEO National Centre for Writing
and Norwich UNESCO City of Literature

4. In 2016, the last year for which full data is available, the arts and
culture sector
- supported 360,000 jobs
- directly contributed £10.8 billion to the nation's economy (the
net contribution from farming is now just under £10.1 billion)
- When the wider cultural spend is included, which covers
associated businesses like material suppliers for costumes, set
construction, food suppliers for cafes and restaurants, hotels
and car parking etc that cultural contribution rises to £23
billion
- contributed £2.8 billion a year to the Treasury in taxation –
more than £5 for every £1 of public funding
- had a GVA per worker of £62,000 compared to £46,800 for
the wider UK economy
- There were £5.2bn exports of arts and culture goods and
services in 2013, more than 3 times that of UK film sector.
With 84% going outside the EU.
Sources: Contribution of the Arts and Culture
Industry to the UK Economy: Centre for Economics
and Business Research (Cebr) 2019 commissioned
by Arts Council England

5. Culture accounts for an estimated 5,815 jobs in Norfolk and Suffolk.
45% of these are in Music and the Visual & Performing Arts, 39% in
Crafts and 17% in Museums and Heritage. Just over a third of jobs
(34%, 2000 jobs) are in Norwich and Ipswich.
Proportionately more people work in the cultural sector than
regionally or nationally and the net change in employment during
the recession indicates a surprisingly level of resilience. It expanded
by a quarter (24.8%) compared to regional and national growth of
13.9% and 0.1% respectively.
There are an estimated 1,013 cultural businesses/organisations in
Norfolk and Suffolk, equivalent to 1.8% of the total business base.
Norfolk and Suffolk attract some 5m overnight visitors annually. It is
estimated that cultural tourism accounts for 165,000 of these visits
and is worth around £13 million to the visitor economy.
The cultural and heritage sector contributes an estimated £83.6m to
the East Anglian economy. Turnover in cultural and heritage
businesses in Suffolk and Norfolk accounts for £206.2m.
At a regional level there were 1,500,000 visits/attendances to major
arts and cultural organisations in the 2016-2017. This excludes
heritage sites, visitor attractions, National Trust properties and small
museums.
Sources: New Anglia LEP Economic Strategy
evidence base, 2018. Look Sideways East
Evaluation, Audience Agency, April 2018. Culture
Drives Growth, 2016, New Anglia Cultural Impact
Analysis, Shared Intelligence, 2012.

6. Art
Supporting writers, translators
and new thinking for literature
• Support new talent
• Commission new work
• Stimulate new thinking
• Showcase new work

7. Learning
Improving lives through
reading, writing and literary
translation
• Working with young people
in and out of school
• Community Engagement
• Volunteering, Professional
Development and Support

8. Place
Promoting Norwich, UNESCO City of
Literature as an international centre of
literary excellence
• Cultural Tourism
• Regional, National and International Competitive
Advantage
• Export and Exchange Opportunities

9. ‘Do different’: A city of pioneers and
campaigners for social change – Dame Julian of
Norwich, Thomas Paine, Harriet Martineau
Home to the University of East Anglia where the
UK’s first Creative Writing MA was founded in
1970.
Home to independent bookshops and
publishers: from Jarrolds (publishers of Black
Beauty) in 1815 to The Book Hive in 2009 – there
are 35 independent publishers based in Norwich
and Norfolk, including Galley Beggar Press,
publishers of Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half -
formed Thing

10. Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library has
been the most used public library in England
for six out of the last seven years.
Norwich was the first city in England to
establish a municipal library in 1608 and the
first city to implement the Public Libraries Act
of 1850
Norwich joined the International Cities of
Refuge Network (www.icorn.org) in 2006. A
city of strangers that has welcomed people
from all over the world for hundreds of years.

11. Home to England’s oldest city arts festival, the Norfolk
& Norwich Festival, which began in 1772. Norwich is a
city that is serious about seriously good culture.
Home to Noirwich Crime Writing Festival – the biggest
regional crime writing festival and a partnership
between National Centre for Writing and UEA.
Home to National Centre for Writing.

12. Hannah Garrard
Programme Manager, Learning and Participation
National Centre for Writing
Working with Young People
in the Arts

13. Priority 4: Give young people the information and
support they need to move successfully between
school, college, university and into work
Priority 4 – DfE social mobility plan for Norwich

14. Engage! Young Arts Professionals

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The Norwich Engage! group have put together a festival-
in-a-day as part of Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2019
• Programmed 5 events, booked 7 notable artists
• Responsible for design of logo and marketing
• Worked out pay-what-you-can pricing structure
• Found accessible venues and performed risk
assessments
• Managed the event
Young Producers

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• Set up young people for careers in the arts
• Better understanding of multicultural arts (visit to
Krakow in April)
• Create methods to help literary organisations find
innovative ways to interact with young people
• Part of a Europe-wide best practice initiative
Objectives for young people & NCW

17. ‘This is our opportunity as young
people to prompt real change, real
discussion, it feels amazing!’
–Mathilda Arminger, Paston college
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18. Thanks for coming!
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