Executive summary
East Street Arts is a creative social enterprise based in Leeds. The charitable trust was founded in 1993, by artists Jon Wakeman and Karen Watson, to facilitate artistic practice and bring art into the community and the built environment. This artist-led regeneration model is now more familiar in many major cities, but in the early 90s it was a new concept and East Street was a pioneer. It set out to provide studios for artists to work in, deliver artist-led programmes and to use art to both motivate and create urban regeneration by partnering with Local Authorities and...