Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland

Constitutional objectives

3.1 The charitable purposes of the SCIO ('the Charitable Purposes') are: 3.1.1 To increase knowledge and understanding of Scotland's culture, traditions, languages and living heritage. 3.1.2 To advance the practice of the arts in Scotland by: (a) perpetuating, propagating and developing creative skills grounded in Scotland's cultural traditions of music, storytelling, dance, song and crafts, including through shared collaborative development across the sector. (b) widening access to these creative practices and skills across all sectors of Scottish society and all age groups, including (but not limited to) through the operation of facilities and the delivery of programmes and services that support these aims. 3.1.3 To advance cultural heritage in Scotland by: (a) enabling individuals and communities to source, interpret and express their intangible or living heritage as a resource for the arts, lifelong learning, and community life and wellbeing. (b) fostering cultural exchange and understanding between diverse communities of place, culture, belief and language, and between such minority communities and Scottish society as a whole. (c) promoting and contributing to international standards and best practice in the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, informed by TRACS’ recognised expertise and advisory work with UNESCO. and 3.1.4 To increase international understanding of Scotland's living cultural traditions and heritage. 3.2 For the purposes of this Clause 3, “culture” is understood to include artistic expression, heritage education, beliefs, language, customs and ways of life as defined in the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (2001).