Presenter: Dawn Yates-Obé, Housing Arts Officer, Bolton at Home Event: How arts & cultural interventions support housing associations to achieve their outcomes, London, 14 May 2015, part of our Making Connections events series. Between May 2015 and March 2016, we are running a series of regional events to bring together commissioners, arts and cultural providers, and others interested in increasing levels of cultural commissioning. The Cultural Commissioning Programme works to help the arts and cultural sector engage in public sector commissioning and to enable public service commissioners to increase their awareness of the potential for arts and cultural organisations to deliver their outcomes. This three year programme, funded by Arts Council England, is being delivered through a partnership between NCVO (lead partner) , NEF and NPC . www.ncvo.org/CCProg

1. Dawn Yates-Obé
Housing Arts Officer
Bolton at Home

2. Overview
Bolton at Home
Percent for Art
Projects

3. Bolton at Home

4. Housing Percent for Art

5. SRB/City Challenge

6. Housing Percent for Art
established in 1997 to:
Work with communities to
maximise the benefits of
regeneration, facilitated by creative
arts projects

7. The Early Years

8. What we learnt:
What public art can (and can’t)
do
That communities evolve and
change
That all artwork has a lifespan

9. Percent for Art today:

10. The Arts Vision:
• Increase experience and participation in the artsAccess to the Arts
• An improved quality of life and wellbeingHealthy
• Strong and confident individuals and communitiesStrong & Confident
• Developing creativity, skills, and confidence to achieveProsperous
• Feel good about where they livePlace & Space
• Inquire, explore, challengeThink & Do
Delivering a quality arts service that meets
customers’ needs and contributes to the
regeneration of our neighbourhoods
Key outcome areas for our customers:

11. Headline Figures
In the first 10 years of Housing Percent for Art we:
Supported 152 projects costing BAH
nearly £1 million
• Leveraged £1.2 million of match funding
• Commissioned over 100 artists/ arts
organisations
• Engaged over 8000 customers

12. Projects

75. Thank you
Dawn Yates-Obé
dawn.yates-obe@boltonathome.org.uk
01204 329 580 / 07920 560 428