Cornwall Council signs agreement supporting the creative sector

Arts Council England chief executive Darren Henly, Councillor Carol Mould and Historic England chief executive Duncan Wilson are signatories to the agreement

Cornwall Council and national cultural organisations have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at promoting the county's creative sector.

The council said the MoU with the Arts Council England and Historic England meant the organisations would cooperate to support the sector until 2030.

It said the aim was to ensure Cornwall "reaches its potential as one of the UK's leading creative economies".

The agreement was first signed in 2019 and it has now been renewed.

'Cultural distinctiveness'

It commits the organisations to cooperating on three main themes.

They include "improving places in Cornwall, developing the resilience of the creative economy and fostering Cornwall's cultural distinctiveness".

Councillor Carol Mould, the council's portfolio holder for neighbourhoods, said: "By signing the MoU, each partner is committing to work together to continue to support arts, heritage and culture so that Cornwall reaches its potential as one of the UK's leading creative economies."

Darren Henley, chief executive of Arts Council England, said the organisation had spent more than £19m in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly over the past three years to improve access to the arts.

Duncan Wilson, chief executive of historic England, said the MoU was "testament to the powerful role that culture, and heritage plays in shaping successful and creative places of which people can be proud".