An Arts Centre is both the space and the people within it. Its concern is with creativity, artistic expression, teaching and learning and personal development. It serves as a focus for the community in celebrating its diversity, its past achievements, its present strengths and its future potential.

Arc manages and delivers a programme of professional and community arts projects aimed at:

• Making an important contribution to the social and economic regeneration of the region in raising aspirations and achievements and helping to develop an entrepreneurial approach.
• Seeking to involve those parts of the community which are at present socially and economically excluded.
• Creating a learning environment that will give young people the opportunity for both accredited and informal arts training.