Introduction
What do we mean by the term culture? The Scottish Executive's National Cultural Strategy uses the broad definition of culture which was developed during the UNESCO world conference on cultural policies in 1982.
In its widest sense, culture may now be said to be the whole complex of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features that characterise a society or group. It includes not only the arts and letters, but also modes of life, the fundamental rights of human beings, value systems, traditions and beliefs.
Creating Our Future... Minding Our Past, Scottish Executive 2000
Foreword
The core of our strategy is to recognise individual and collective cultural identity and to give everyone living, visiting or working in West Dunbartonshire the opportunity to interact with its culture.
The strategy will provide a framework to celebrate and develop the range of cultural activity in order to expand and increase levels of participation and to provide a means of increasing the resourcing of culture, thus achieving best value for that investment.
This strategy is part of a continuing process to help us establish our objectives and plan how to achieve them. It will help us to address the National Cultural Strategy at a local level with the three main aims of access, achievement and regeneration, whilst simultaneously enabling citizens of West Dunbartonshire to benefit from our local culture and heritage.
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