DG Unlimited is proud to be one of the founding partners of the Dumfries and Galloway Cultural Partnership. The core purpose of the Cultural Partnership is to lead and oversee delivery of the Dumfries and Galloway Cultural Strategy.

Our involvement in the Cultural Partnership came about as a result of our long-standing relationship with Dumfries and Galloway Council over the last 12 years. We are delighted to see the Partnership is now moving forward with its plans and we are particularly looking forward to continuing to work with DG Council Colleagues, our fellow founding partners, and with the whole cultural sector in the region. We invite you to find out more by downloading the Strategy below and by reading more about the Cultural Partnership via the link below.

Our work for the arts and culture sector and ongoing partnership with Dumfries and Galloway Council is important to us and we want to be as transparent as possible to ensure you, our valued members and the interested public understand why we we were invited to be involved in the formation of a Cultural Partnership for our region.

DG Unlimited meets the requirements as laid out in the Cultural Partnership Framework, that founder members represented on the Cultural Partnership must:

• Have collective networks, partnership and relationships on which to grow
  region and sector-wide support for delivery of the Cultural Strategy.
• Have a strategic role in setting the cultural agenda for Dumfries and Galloway.
• Collectively demonstrate a track record in good partnership working and can
  model this for stakeholders and partners.
• Be able to speak with authority for the broad remit of the Cultural Strategy,
  quickly establish credibility and influence at a strategic level, and have capacity for strategic decision-making.
• Have combined knowledge and expertise to advocate, debate and inform on
  issues and concerns critical to the cultural agenda in Dumfries and Galloway
  now, and into the future.

The aim of the Cultural Partnership is to work together to oversee delivery of the
vision of the Dumfries and Galloway Cultural Strategy, so that by 2030 Dumfries and
Galloway’s distinctive creativity, culture and heritage will have an international profile
and be renowned for their contribution to the region’s economy and quality of life.

The Cultural Strategy is principally aligned to the priorities and aims of the Cultural
Strategy for Scotland, the National Strategy for Economic Transformation, the
Climate Change Plan 2018-32, The Place Principle, Scotland Outlook 2030 and Fair
Work.

The Dumfries and Galloway Cultural Strategy outlines three ambitions, and their subsequent objectives, which have been formulated in response to what people highlighted as important to them during Dumfries and Galloway Council’s consultation and engagement phase:

• Ambition 1: Our people
• Ambition 2: Our places
• Ambition 3: The difference we make