Governance
Our four core values of Rights to High Standard Music and Arts, Diversity/Inclusion, Sustainability and Place Making/Community building are reflected in every aspect of our organisation, from cradle to grave, promoting engagement throughout the generations.
Strategic Plan 2024-2029
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Focus Areas
Focus Area 1
Community Engagement and Place Making
We cater for all demographics within the Crumlin and wider environs, always looking to provide intergenerational involvement. Systemic building of a community is at our core and we achieve this through being accessible to all ages, abilities, neurodiversity, genders, orientation, ethnicities and socio – economic groups using the medium of music and the arts to provide inspirational activities.
Being an integral part of the cultural fabric of the Crumlin area, we strive to maintain and develop further civic engagement, encouraging ownership of music and arts development within both the individual and the community.
Rationale
A sense of belonging, artistic expression, developing your voice as an individual and as part of the wider community, are integral to our principles. We encourage social interaction, wellbeing and community engagement. We promote accessibility through our location, socio-economic considerations and intergenerational programming while also providing pathways for participation at regional, national and international levels.
Objectives
Building the CCMA community and developing our programmes to meet the evolving community needs.
Building access for all, as a means of promoting confidence within the individual and the community as a whole.
Breaking down socio-economic barriers, enabling access by keeping fees for participation as low as possible.
Finding new pathways such as Social Prescribing to engage with all in the community.
Advocate for and promote the development of a custom built performance venue for the Crumlin/Dublin 12 area to help develop live arts performances for the local area.
Focus Area 2
Breaking Down Barriers
At St Agnes’ CCMA, we provide a space to develop the individual and the community through music and the arts. Our programmes are actively responsive to all, innovating new learning pathways and enabling social interaction.
Rationale
Following the UN Charter for Human Rights, we believe that all of our community “have the right to express themselves musically in all freedom” and “to have access to musical involvement through participation, listening, creation and information”. Providing a safe and accessible resource is key to breaking down the barriers to expression.
Objectives
Providing a variety of programmes for the community to engage with St Agnes’ CCMA from "cradle to grave".
Promoting a person centred approach with innovative engagement that actively enables all.
Providing healthy engagement with the arts that helps overcome anti-social activity and counteract the underestimation of our community.
Opening doors to music and arts education, up to and including 3rd level training, developing the individual who can then feed back into the community through their artistic and educational practice.
Evaluating the experience of participants and evolving our programmes to meet the needs of the community.
By promoting the development of a performance venue for the Crumlin/Dublin 12 area to help develop live arts performances for the local area, we aim to create a viable centre for music performance, increasing engagement for both the participant and audience.
Focus Area 3
Responsive Programming
We will continuously endevour to respond to the developing community, and evolving practice in music and arts education to ensure the high quality and relevance of our programme. We will support both management and tutors to further develop their skills and deliver relevant music education programmes.
Rationale
From cradle to grave, we strive to provide programmes that cater for all generations and backgrounds, especially those from the Crumlin area. Inclusive and responsive programming will continue to be a primary focus, concentrating on enabling our community to reach their full potential.
Objectives
We will continue to provide the wide ranging programme currently on offer, from baby music classes, instrumental lessons, orchestras and choirs, Musical Society and St Agnes’ Violin project. We will strive to respond to specific new areas of programming for the duration of this plan.
Encouraging the development of Traditional Music education by building on our current programmes and developing new monthly sessions open to all in the community
Developing and facilitating Neurodiverse participants through our Sensory Stars Club led by a qualified Music Therapist. This will be done in partnership with Scoil Eoin and our community after-school groups with D12 Autism.
Developing Music Therapy programmes for new members of our society who have experienced trauma as a result of displacement or conflict.
Seek statutory and non-statutory partners to develop an arts performance plan for the Crumlin/Dublin 12 area, using local amenities and venues while also striving to develop a custom built performance space.
Focus Area 4
Maintaining Standards
We will maintain and improve the quality of music education provision in all of our programmes. We will concentrate on quality of experience for both the participant and the music / arts practitioner.
Rationale
Sustaining standards of provision and ensuring that all participants receive high quality music experiences in all of their activities. We also strive to sustain and improve quality employment for skilled music teachers, conductors and performers.
Objectives
Continuing to provide quality music education that is recognised at local, national and international levels.
Ensuring that all classes and performing ensembles are appropriately structured with suitable and relevant programming.
Providing meaningful and sustainable employment for musicians and teachers at local level, allowing them to live and work within the city area.
Enabling staff to seek Continuing Professional Development to help them to develop their practice, both artistically and pedagogically, for their own benefit and that of their students.
Reducing our environmental impact by encouraging green space development and upgrading the energy efficiency in our building. Promoting Dublin City Council’s 15-minute city policy by encouraging participants to use carbon sensitive travel such as bus and providing safe cycling park.
Focus Area 5
Sustainability, Governance & Communications
Ensuring external communications are improved by building on local knowledge and developing an online communications plan. Ensuring that communications are clear and open and that all communications between the Board of Directors, General Manager, teaching staff and support staff flow both ways.
Rationale
For continued sustainability, communications between all members of the CCMA community will be improved by increasing access points for information. The Board of Directors and General Manager will ensure that clear governance parameters are in place to ensure the efficient and safe running of the organisation.
Objectives
Creation of two new employment roles of Head of Development; and an administrator.
Continuing to provide clear routes of communication at local level through partnerships and local knowledge.
Developing a new website and updating branding.
Developing clear social media plans and Key Performance Indicators.
Maintaining and developing funding partnerships with local and national organisations from both statutory and corporate sectors.
Develop sub-committees of the Board of Directors to encourage good governance by establishing a sub-committee in the following areas: HR & Finance, Compliance, Artistic Planning.
Updating Equality Diversity and Inclusion policy for further inclusivity.
Reviewing Terms of reference of Board of Directors, including a range of preferred skills of members and optimum lengths of service.
Engage an independent Review of the Board of Directors every 5 years.
Ensuring compliance with statutory obligations of Charity Regulator, Company Registration Office and employment legislation in a timely manner.