Our Mission Statement

Gregson Centre Mission Statement
“To promote and encourage discussion and participation in
arts and community events, issues, activities and groups
in order to improve the quality of life for the whole community.
To excite, engage, stimulate and fulfil.”

Adopted by the Gregson Community Association Board of Trustees January 2003

The Gregson Mission Statement and General Policy Statement are intended acknowledge the important role of the Gregson for engaging with residents, and providing a venue for the discussion of issues etc. These issues are seen as additional and complementary to the aims of promoting and encouraging arts, events, activities and groups.

Gregson Centre General Policy Statement
The Gregson is a Community Centre which believes that all of its facilities and arts and events programmes should be totally accessible to all members of the community.

We will achieve this goal through the AIMS, IMPLEMENTATION and ASSESSMENT strategy laid out in this document:

AIMS

·         To present a broad range of events and activities to excite, engage with, stimulate and intellectually challenge our users.

Arts

·         To encourage music, drama, dance, literary and all other arts events and activities which will improve the quality of life for the community as a whole.

·         To provide "safe-housing" for small scale groups, performers, musicians, composers, artists and writers for them to perform, workshop or display their work.

·         To encourage creative risk taking, to ensure that all valuable work in the centre can be experienced by the widest possible audience.

Community

·         To promote and encourage use of the centre by a wide and varied range of community groups within the aims of the constitution.

·         To work together with local authorities, other voluntary groups, organisations and inhabitants of community in order to ensure maximum use of the centre.

·         To encourage activities that promote equal opportunities, health, race relations, law and order, environmental and other worthwhile community issues.

·         To support the discussion of community issues

IMPLEMENTATION

The board of Trustees will meet quarterly to meet with the Administrators of the Gregson Centre in order to provide a mechanism for quality assessment, a review procedure to safeguard the Gregson Centre Policy and a means towards encouraging expansion and development of programmes and activities in the centre.

The administrators will be required to provide a detailed report to these meetings which will form the basis of assessment of the success of the Gregson Centre according to the Criteria of Assessment and Expectation determined annually by the Board of Trustees and subject to review and amendment at the Quarterly Meetings.

ASSESSMENT and EXPECTATION

The success of the Gregson Centre will be reviewed with with regard to the following criteria of assessment:

·         Financial security

·         Administration of the Centre

·         Quantity of activities, events and individual use of the Centre

·         Variety of activities, events and individual use of the Centre

The Board of Trustees will review the policy on an annual basis, setting 'milestones of expectation' for the forthcoming twelve months. For the next twelve months these milestones will be to:

Seek to encourage and develop use of the centre by the following community groups

·         Family use of the centre     

·         Parent & Toddler Group

·         Senior Citizens activities

·         Womens Theatre group

·         Community touring groups

·         Resident groups

·         Community enterprises

·         Voluntary organisations

·         Youth groups

Seek to develop the following entertainment programmes

·         Literature

·         World Music

·         Jazz

·         New Music

·         Young peoples music and theatre

·         Whole centre festivals: workshops, forums, performances

Seek to increase audience & community awareness

·         Working with disabled organisations

·         News and Media links to be developed

·         Marketing strategy to be improved

·         Communication with membership

Infrastructure

·         Disabled access

·         Community office

·         Expansion and development of centre

·         Review of existing facilities

·         Information technology

·         Maintenance

·         Committee training, strategic planning and development