Join Barnet’s Cultural Action Group
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Join Barnet’s Cultural Action Group
Passionate about arts and culture? Join the Cultural Action Group to support us in delivering our Culture Strategy.
Background
Co-produced with Barnet’s vibrant cultural community, our five-year Culture Strategy 2024-2029 is dedicated to celebrating, supporting, and enhancing Barnet’s creative and cultural sector. To support us in achieving its strategic ambitions, we’re again calling on our cultural community to collaborate with us.
If you live or work in the borough, and are passionate about arts and culture, we invite you to help shape Barnet’s cultural future by joining our new Cultural Action Group. We invite individuals, community groups, local businesses and organisations to take part. The group should be inclusive and representative of the creative community in Barnet, and we especially welcome applications from individuals currently underrepresented in the sector.
The Cultural Action Group will act as an assurance board to provide strategic oversight and ensure that the action plan for delivering the Culture Strategy’s priorities is progressing. The group will check overall health and progress of actions, provide guidance and support key decision making.
Visit our Culture Strategy page to learn more about the Culture Strategy and its six priorities - Involvement, Infrastructure, Interconnection, Identity, Inspiration and Influence.
Your role and eligibility explained
What will you be required to do if you join the Cultural Action Group
- attend Cultural Action Group meetings, held three times a year (meetings are online or in-person, as advised)
- review the Culture Strategy action plan and associated programming
- help monitor overall progress; review and make recommendations as to how the Culture Strategies objectives and priorities are being met or could be updated
- we have also provided the Cultural Action Group Terms of Reference
The qualities we're seeking
- passion and enthusiasm for the purpose and aims of Barnet’s Culture Strategy
- a collaborative approach and able to work with other Cultural Action Group members to ensure action is taken and change takes place
- values diversity, equality and inclusion
Eligibility
- you need to be living in Barnet, or working in the creative, cultural or community sector in Barnet
Terms
- the term is 12 months
- for self-employed participants not representing an organisation or charity, compensation for your time will be available in form of an hourly rate (up to a maximum of three hours per meeting) equivalent to the London Living Wage, plus travel costs
How to apply and application timeline
We want the board to be inclusive and representative of the artists, creative communities and cultural organisations based in Barnet. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
To apply, we ask you to submit an expression of interest form
Find out more the about the transparent and inclusive way we intend to select candidates and the assessment criteria.
If you have any questions or need assistance with your application, please contact us at culture@barnet.gov.uk
Timeline
Applications open: 7th April 2025
Applications close: 12th May 2025
Applications assessed: w/c 12th May 2025
Outcome shared: w/c 19th May 2025
First Cultural Action Group Meeting: Thursday 12th June 2025, 4-5.30pm, In-person, location tbc
We will select people based on their application but not everyone will be successful.
