Founded around ten years ago, and rising out of the ashes of the Glossop Vision Board, The Glossopdale Trust has worked to create an environment where the Community is working with public and third sector partners like High Peak Bourough Council and Big Lottery, to support and develop the creative scene in the town, and on the way make it a better place to live work and enjoy.
Over this time, we have driven some great initiatives like the Bankswood and Town Hall Sessions Festivals, Art in the Window, and Championed the development of the Town Hall, Market and Municipal Buildings into an asset for the town, driven by the community.
But over the last twelve months it became clear that the Trust as it stood was no longer quite the right vehicle to take this ambition forward. Focused more on doing than supporting and developing. We recognised that we needed to shift our focus to a more strategic role, working with businesses groups and individuals within the town to deliver our goals, rather than aiming to deliver them in isolation.
Through the process of this “review” of our ambitions we recognised that we needed to strengthen relationships and create better ownership from across the community. and decided it was time to restructure and re-brand.
The end result is that:
- The name has changed from The Glossopdale Trust to The Glossop Creative Trust to better reflect our focus on the creative communities & Industries – but more of that in a Future posts.
- We have restructured, bringing some great new talent onto the board of the Trust, a restructure that has significantly improved connections with other groups in the across the town including, The Victoria Arts Centre Project, Glossop Music Festival, Dark peak Music, Glossop Arts Project to name a few. As well as retaining many of the exiting members, still passionate and committed to the work of the trust. You will find details of the full board here
- We are re-branding to reflect the new focus of the Trust and its new board. This website is the first part of this new brand. A brand that will develop and grow over the coming months.
- We have identified 3 core strands to our strategy “Nurturing Creativity”, “Transforming Spaces” and “Inviting Ideas”. These will be central to our focus going froward
Whilst in the short term, we must say goodbye to the Bankswood and Town Hall Sessions festivals, this is only because we now aim to focus more broadly to bring bigger and better initiatives and festivals to the town.