Samantha Whelan
Platform Thirty1
Area of expertise/industry/experience
Arts, culture, creativity, small business growth, community-first approach
Finish this sentence - "Bolsover is ..."
How do your own organisational priorities align with the Bolsover Place Programme?
An untapped gem for business, an affordable and diverse opportunity for visitors, and a community rich in potential for residents to make a home here.
Positioning arts, culture and heritage as a golden thread.
Taking a community-first approach that builds agency in the people affected by the programme. Shifting power to residents, groups, organisations and partnerships that are often overlooked. Using arts, culture and heritage as strategic levers to connect and create. Valuing lived experience in the heart of a programme.
The opportunity I am most excited to support is...
I believe in Bolsover because...
The appetite for change, progress, with and by people here matters to so many, and together we are noisy advocates for collective, innovative and change-driven ways of working.