Fife Council has decided to transfer services to a cultural trust by 1 October 2012. The new trust will manage and operate libraries, arts, museums and archives on behalf of the council, as well as the theatre provision currently provided by ON at Fife (Adam Smith Theatre, Rothes Halls, Lochgelly Centre and Carnegie Hall) and the Byre Theatre, St Andrews.
It will be the fourth trust to be set up in Fife, joining those for sport and leisure, golf, and coast and countryside. council-owned buildings will be leased to the trust, but artefacts and art works in the museums’ collections and archives will remain in the local authority’s hands.
It is expected that Fife Cultural Trust will generate efficiency savings in the first full year of £250,000 for the council as well as a non domestic rates (NDR) saving of £389,000.
