![]() Supporting new screen networks such as Picture House in West Lothian run by Generation Arts, Linstone Housing Association in Renfrewshire and with Cinemor77’s work in coalfields communities, we saw the challenges specific to communities of low income to making local cinema truly accessible and inclusive, and the great work being done to address this. It ran for three years from June 2019 – June 2022, extended due to the pandemic, and supported new and established local cinemas all across Scotland. ![]() Our advocacy and development work led Screen Scotland to ask us to deliver a funding programme to address gaps in cinema provision and this, in partnership with Film Hub Scotland, became A Cinema Near You (CNY). It affirmed the intention behind the name of our organisation – that we needed to have a Regional outlook because beyond the rural touring circuit of the Screen Machine – Scotland’s towns, villages and edge of cities can all benefit from support to make local cinema as inclusive and welcoming as possible. ![]() That report was further important because it showed that a cinema has an impact on their local community no matter the size, location or demographics of where it is situated. The report was crucial for us in showing the multiple ways that a local cinema can be embedded and important to its local community, and should be at the heart of local plans and development programmes. The roots of this work go back to our 2016 report, Your Cinema Your Community compiled with the Social Value Lab, which supported our advocacy of the importance of screen provision by identifying the six domains of influence that a local cinema can have: Culture, Community, Economy, Heritage, Wellbeing and Education. In 2022 we started working in earnest to implement plans laid out in our Business Plan 2022 – 2026 to develop the concept of a ‘Universal’ Cinema – somewhere truly welcoming and inclusive to all.
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