Culture, creativity and heritage makes Torbay a better place in which to live, work, learn and visit. Torbay Culture was set up with support from Arts Council England to provide strategic leadership for the local culture sector, and progress the cultural strategy which is focused around people and place.
MISSION & STRATEGY
Culture, heritage, the arts and creativity, nature and the built environment improves our quality of life, and shapes the places we call home.
Our mission is to ‘enable the cultural and creative development of Torbay through collaboration, making our home – the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark - a better place in which to live, work, learn and visit.’
Torbay Culture works with a range of partners to make the cultural offer here more sustainable and more visible. Between us, we ensure Torbay's ten-year cultural strategy achieves what it has set out to do, and contributes towards a prosperous future for everyone in Torbay.
Read Torbay's cultural strategy below:
You can find out more about how we deliver our strategy through our projects.
During 2019, at the mid-point of this ten-year strategy, we reviewed our progress and prioritised our objectives for the years ahead. A summary is available to download below:
Throughout 2020 Torbay Culture worked in collaboration with Torbay Council and partners to create a new heritage strategy for the bay. Heritage Arts and People undertook this review and over 800 people and numerous organisations participated in the process, shaping the themes that mattered most to them. In November 2020, the Council formally adopted the new Torbay Heritage Strategy, which expands on the heritage ambitions in Enjoy, Talk, Do, Be. To read more click below:
““I have been impressed by the collaborative, community-led approach to restoring and reopening the historic Paignton Picture House, with support of the Cultural Development Fund. The project is a shining example of improving coastal towns through culture and heritage to the benefit of local people, businesses and visitors.”
- Charlie Courtenay, the Earl of Devon
”Collaborating with a range of partners and local people, Torbay Culture has developed and delivered projects and activities that are working to make Torbay a great place to live, work, play and visit by promoting health and wellbeing, developing civic pride and making the most of the area’s natural beauty and rich heritage.”
- Darren Henley, Chief Executive, Arts Council England”