WORCESTER’S new arts centre is set to to bring people together to make the city a more creative place.
The new centre, Scala in Angel Street aims to set out in a draft business plan and a ‘Creative Consortium’ of local arts, cultural and creative organisations.
The plan was drawn up by Worcester City Council and will be considered by the policy and resources committee on July, 30.
Scala – which will be created in the former Scala cinema and Corn Exchange buildings in Angel Street – will be supported by two commercial activities, serving food and drink, and hiring of the new venue to third parties.
Coun Lynn Denham, leader of the City Council and chair of the policy and resources committee, said: “I am very proud that we have taken a collaborative approach in developing the draft business plan for Scala.
“Thanks to the hard work, talents and expertise of the Creative Consortium, we now have a strategy for creating a successful, lasting new arts centre that will bring something new to Worcester, not compete with the entertainment offer that we already have in our city.”
The project is being funded by £17.9million from Worcester City Council from the previous Government’s Future High Street Fund.
The Council is not permitted to use that funding to support running costs once Scala is open, so one of the main principles of the draft business plan is to create a sustainable operating model for the new arts centre.
