Sport and major events

Louise Miles-Payne

17 October 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)

I've watched these committees a lot, and, obviously, you've heard that the steady decline of funding has not just been what happened in December; this has been happening over the last decade. We are in a perfect storm of all of those things. We've got to remember that, during COVID, venues were shut…

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Hannah Firth

17 October 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)

Yes. I think we've all talked today around the role that arts can play in health and well-being and telling stories about climate justice, and so on. We even have projects like Arts and Minds that the Arts Council of Wales are working with NHS Wales on to look at well-being and health, and investing…

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Hannah Firth

17 October 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

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Are you coming to me first? It's a combination, I think, is the answer that I would give to that. As we've talked about, there is social change. People are spending more time at home or their habits have changed since COVID, actually, and it's just taking time to remember how joyful it is to be…

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Alun DaviesLabour

17 October 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

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I've enjoyed the conversation this morning. I've tried listening to your different perspectives on these issues, but I want you to convince me of something, and this is what it is: to what extent is this simply a financial crisis that you've been describing? And to what extent is there a change…

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Delyth JewellPlaid

17 October 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

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Thank you for that. We have fifteen minutes left. Perhaps we'll be running a few minutes late, after 10:30, if that's okay with everybody. I'll go finally to Alun.

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Naomi Chiffi

17 October 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

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Just to echo everything that's been said there, Wales is such a talented nation of artists and creatives, but we are in danger of losing some of those most talented to outside of Wales, without the direct talent pipeline for them to follow and a path for them to follow. I think that the Welsh…

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Hannah Firth

17 October 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)

Just thinking about what we were talking about, skills development and our reliance on project funding, I think investing in ways to recruit into the industry is really key as well, because we are facing the threat of losing really talented people from Wales because they can't get access into jobs…

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Louise Miles-Payne

17 October 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)

I'll jump in. I think there definitely needs to be more cross-collaboration with other Government departments, like we've heard already in terms of arts and health, education, the creative curriculum. I think we're not looking at diversifying where the funding is perhaps coming from, and making more…

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Laura Anne JonesConservative

17 October 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

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That's brilliant. Thank you for that. Sorry about that—just interested. To all of you now, what else could the Welsh Government do beyond additional funding to mitigate the impact of reduced funding on the arts? Thank you.

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Hannah Firth

17 October 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

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The original festival was developed with a collaborative team of venues across Wales, so we did it as a national project. It has been advertised across Wales and elsewhere using BSL, flyers and so on, so fully accessible in terms of marketing. For example, our conference, which we held, we filmed…

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Laura Anne JonesConservative

17 October 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

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That's excellent to hear. Just a quick supplementary on something that you said. The deaf-led festival at Chapter sounds excellent. I'm just wondering how that's advertised across Wales to ensure that as many people who are deaf can benefit from that, please.

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Naomi Chiffi

17 October 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

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I think something that we've always been able to do through TEAM, and has always been a really important part of our work, is to work in socioeconomically deprived areas, or with under-represented groups. We specifically look to provide opportunities to diversify the sector, diversify the stories…

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Louise Miles-Payne

17 October 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)

I was just going to jump in, in terms of representing all the venues around Wales. There are 40 venues that are part of the Hynt scheme, which you might have come across. This is a national card access scheme that we manage on behalf of the arts council. We did a massive report on the scheme last…

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