You'll find two related but distinct pages in this section - this one and Strategic Priorities. They're not the same thing, and it's worth understanding the difference.
This page sets out Strange Field's constitutional purpose - the aims written into our OSCR governing document that define us as a charity. They don't change unless we formally amend our constitution, and they're written in broad terms deliberately, to cover everything Strange Field might ever do. OSCR uses them to assess whether our activities qualify as charitable.
Our Strategic Priorities sit within that foundation - they describe what we've chosen to focus on right now, in language that reflects how we actually think and work. They're reviewed annually and written in Strange Field's full voice. The aims are the structure, the priorities are what we're building inside it.
Our vision is for accessible creative platforms to be embedded across Glasgow, at the heart of communities as catalysts for increased creative development, education, experimentation, inclusion, and wellbeing.
1. To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the G31 and G40 community and its environs without distinction of gender, sexual orientation, political, religious or other opinions by associating the local statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance access and enjoyment of the arts.
2. To provide space, facilities and support for contemporary art practice, education, enquiry, and research for the benefit of our local communities and anyone's individual or collective arts practice and in the interest of social welfare for recreation and creative education so that their conditions of life, wellbeing and opportunities be improved.
3. To promote and contribute to the social and cultural resilience of the East End of Glasgow in particular via community ownership, co-operative non-hierarchical democracy and wage equality.