Falkirk Community Trust planning to keep striving for improvement

Falkirk Community Trust will be hoping to maintain the five-star attraction status it worked so hard to achieve at Callendar House

That’s why bosses have drawn up a list of ambitions which FCT hopes to have achieved by 2019 to ensure its staff and services aren’t standing still.

The first of its three main aims is to operate from venues people want to use, with a more responsive programme offering better quality for customers.

So too is being regarded as a trusted and valued organisation with diminishing reliance on council funding, which is more flexible, entrepreneurial and commercially minded, and secure in its role as a leader for culture and sport.

The final objective for FCT is to have a loyal workforce and volunteers who motivate a huge cross section of the community to take part in culture and sport.

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Measures taken to secure financial sustainability, such as securing £516,000 in income from competitive grant-making bodies and reducing its reliance on council funding from 72 per cent in 2011/12 to 60 per cent in 2017/18, are also seen as encouraging signs of progress.

Maureen Campbell, FCT chief executive, said: “Over the course of the year a number of good ideas emerged that should provide a solid foundation for the future of some of our main facilities, such as introducing a professional pantomime at Falkirk Town Hall, expanding our afternoon tea offer at Callendar House and improving customer facilities at the Hippodrome.

“Financial pressures continue to dominate for the Trust and the council.

“Nonetheless, I am pleased that our customer income trend remains positive and every day we receive very positive feedback from people who use our services.”