The Next Major Enterprise- after a one year consultation, we concluded that scotland can lead the world in cultural provision, supplemented with radical new thinking and with the right amount of funding and investment.
There were 124 recommendations that were done, and the key recommendations are included below.
- Appoint a Deputy Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport
- A national council for creative people, so that they can show their talents and skills.
- Tax support scheme for creative individuals promoted to the UK parliament by the Scottish executives
- School children getting entitlement schemes, things such as Cultural vouchers be given away, and Scottish schools become the pioneer of this movement.
- Every person will be entitled to share in any publicly funded cultural activities, adding in the four cultural rights
- Tackle the funding gap and leave $100m each year for culture development within Scotland which represents 1% of the Scottish Executives annual budget
- Introduce a culture bill by 2007 with a total of 29 recommendations. These needs to pass by the law…
- Public libraries funded to carry culture materials and books, by writers and musicians living in Scotland
Scotland’s Cultural life has to be preserved, and expanded so that it would not be lost in the new era of technology and new agism. The plan is to celebrate current successes in implemented or through the process of improving the cultural strength within scotland, but still being fueled by the drive to make it even better for the future generations.
New structures are needed, new thinking, a paradigm shift is required and embraced to bring this whole movement to the next level and to encourage the younger generations to embrace it wholeheartedly.
There’s so much more that we can do, and there’s so much more that we should do. And this should take priority in the coming 10 years, for the good of the citizens of Scotland, and for Scotland, while being an example for other countries to follow suit.
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