Who We Are
Herefordshire Cultural Partnership is an independent consortium of Herefordshire’s arts, heritage and cultural organisations, creative businesses and local government. Board members meet throughout the year to drive forward the Herefordshire Cultural Strategy and identify new opportunities. As an Arts Council England-backed Cultural Compact, the group works across sectors (health, economy, volunteer) to strengthen arts, cultural and creative engagement.
Our Vision
For Herefordshire to be internationally recognised as a beacon for inspirational arts and culture that enhances wellbeing.
Our Mission
To enrich the lives of all who live, work and visit Herefordshire by building on existing arts and culture programming and generating new opportunities and more engagement. To develop young people’s pride in place, confidence, creativity, skills and opportunities through inspirational arts and culture.
Our Values
Working together we can achieve great things.
We are ambitious for quality and value for money.
We respect and seek to do the best for everybody who lives, works or visits Herefordshire.
We make the most of what we have, take pride in resilience and welcome innovation.
We are open and transparent in the way we work, open to opportunities, open-minded and outward looking; we are rooted in place and connected to the world.
Our Board
Herefordshire Cultural Partnership board members are individuals drawn from organisations working in and in support of the county's cultural and creative future.
- Nic Millington, Chair of Herefordshire Cultural Partnership and CEO of Rural Media
- Abigail Appleton, Principal, Hereford College of Arts
- Ian Archer, Chief Executive and Artistic Director, The Courtyard Centre for the Arts
- David Bailey, General Manager, National Trust Herefordshire
- Robert Elliot, Director of Business Development & Engagement, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce
- Damian Etheraads, Museum and Art Gallery Lead, Herefordshire Council
- Bruce Herriot, Chair, Three Choirs Festival
- Amy Howard, Director, Ledbury Poetry
- Ian Kerry, Executive Director, Arts Alive and Flicks in the Sticks
- Sarah Lee, Culture and Leisure Lead, Herefordshire Council
- James Pacey, Chancellor, Hereford Cathedral
- Clare Purcell, Executive Director, Meadow Arts
- Lisle Turner, Creative Director, Open Sky
- Tom True, Executive Director, Hay Castle Trust
- Cliff Woollard, CEO, Encore