Please save the date for this final edition in our series of “Big ambitions for Culture and Communities”. This meeting will be held online, and registration will open in the new year. You can register to join the CPG (and receive notifications of future meetings) at https://culturecounts.scot/cross-party-groups.

In this meeting (postponed from October 2025), we will continue our ongoing exploration of "big ambitions" for culture and communities in Scotland. This meeting will explore some questions that have arisen in earlier meetings of this group around understanding impact.

Key themes are likely to include:

• the balance between piloting new ideas and sustained funding for ongoing initiatives,

• articulating the impact of preventative activity,

• ‘what counts’ as evidence (and how that might tie to power and privilege within the sector),

• how we capture, share and understand impact in different contexts,

• how we create space for risk and experimentation, and

• the possibilities for artistic and creative approaches in evaluation

Convener: Claire Baker MSP

Secretariat: Culture Counts