The Glenkens Community & Arts Trust has a long track record of economic regeneration through arts and community
work in the Glenkens. We are a key anchor organisation for the area, with a clear vision of making the Glenkens
an excellent place to live for people of all ages.
The CatStrand Arts delivers the CatStrand Artistic Vision, which has three key strands:
CatStrand Touring Arts – hosting high quality touring work and supporting the region’s artists.
Cultural Glenkens – preserving and celebrating our natural and cultural Heritage.
CatStrand Young Creatives – engaging and developing children and young people aged from 5 to 25.
Based primarily at CatStrand, New Galloway, the Cultural Glenkens Project Lead is an important role within GCAT.
Working as one of the 3 keys strands of the Arts programme, you will be responsible for delivering the Cultural
Glenkens project. This has six key components:
1. Delivering an Events programme, in collaboration with Glenkens grass-roots volunteer heritage organisations and
regional partners. To include a Festival of Land.
2. Delivering Galloway Conversations – programme of hybrid talks on a heritage theme, with regional partners.
3. Supporting Glenkens grass-roots volunteer heritage organisations in their work, with a view to increasing their
long-term sustainability and self-sufficiency.
4. Creating a digital archive for the Glenkens, including oral histories.
5. Delivering an intern programme across the Glenkens.
6. Working with local schools to improve heritage understanding.
In this post you will be a champion of heritage in the Glenkens – empowering and supporting our many committed
volunteers, recruiting new volunteers to the cause and ensuring that the heritage of the Glenkens is both
preserved, celebrated and created anew.
This post is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players