This group consists of the Arts Development Worker, the Arts Resource Worker and representatives of:

• The Nidderdale Festival
• Nidderdale Visual Arts
• Pateley Bridge Dramatic Society
• no 6 studio gallery
• Nidd Chorale
• King St Workshops
• Nidderdale Museum
• The Brass Bands
• The Embroiderers' Guild

Terms of reference are as follows:

Role:

The role of the Arts Partnership is to act as the community forum which professionally influences the direction of the Arts Development project.

Overall objective:

To ensure that the project reflects local needs and and is of sound quality

Function:

• To provide a local consultative forum for arts development work
• To give a community influence to the direction of the work
• To provide a professional steer and support for the Arts development worker
• To provide a network of interested organisations and individuals.

Reporting:

The NAP meets on a monthly basis and is chaired by a member of the Nidderdale Plus Partnership Board, the Director with responsibility for the arts, Margaret Mitchell

The core membership of the group is drawn from local arts organisations such as Nidderdale Festival, Pateley Bridge Arts club, nca, The Embroiderers Guild, King Street workshops.

The meetings are minuted and the minutes received by the Nidderdale Plus Partnership Board at its next available meeting.

This group is made up of all the occupants of the King St Workshops, with representation from Nidderdale Business Association, Nidderdale Museum and the AONB.

The group are working together to improve the outside area of the workshops / museum, the proposal to do this has five objectives:

• To create a visually attractive area that people will want to visit in its own right.
• To create an area that can be used as outside exhibition space and public performance space when it is not being used as a car park.
• To create an area that reflects and utitlises Nidderdales cultural and environmental heritage.
• To propose a scheme that would guide visitors from the High Street to the King St Workshops
• To contribute to the Arts as part of a broader regeneration programme in Nidderale.

Nidderdale Plus has recently made a successful bid to the AONB Sustainable Development Fund to commission a design statement for the above.

    This group consists of representatives of:

• North Yorkshire County Council
• Harrogate Borough Council
• Pateley Bridge Town Council
• Bewerley Parish Council
• Nidderdale Business Association
• AONB
• Nidderdale Plus

The function and vision of the group is as follows:

Function

• A consultative and planning forum that shares information and resources to improve the future of Nidderdale.
• A forum that will listen, respect and reflect local views.
• A forum that has representation from organisations that have responsibility for strategic direction in Nidderdale.
• A forum that influences how future decisions about Nidderdale are taken
• A forum that provides a strategic framework for funding applications.

Vision

Through positive and co-operative action, to increase the capacity of Nidderdale to:-

• Provide and support the services and facilities essential to create a sustainable community where people wish to live and work
• Retain its cultural and historic character
• Act as a tourism destination in order to support the rural economy
• Contribute to an environmentally sustainable area in accordance with the designation as an AONB

Pateley Bridge

As the major settlement and traditional market town, Pateley Bridge has a key role in helping to achieve the vision for Nidderdale.

• The town should be the place where people of the Dale can obtain the majority of the essentials of life, food and supplies, leisure activities and social interaction.
• The town should be the automatic stopping place fro visitors to the area, providing them with an opportunity to experience and learn about the area and to contribute to its continuing well being.
• The town should aim to improve the quality of life through the range and standard of its services and environment