CCANW’s policy is to ensure maximum access for all sections of society. Our intention is to significantly increase access to the arts by breaking down physical, psychological and intellectual barriers, working with different communities, embracing cultural diversity and social inclusion.

The Centre aims to attract at least 60,000 visitors a year, yet engage its local, regional, national and international audiences in different ways. Artists, students, young people, families, the rural community, disabled people, those from different cultural backgrounds and socially deprived areas will be particularly encouraged to become involved.

• Firstly, the establishment of the Centre creates a social and cultural focus for the local community and contributes to the quality of life in the area. It has created new jobs, invites voluntary help and helps to support tourist-related businesses.

• The Centre brings together a unique combination of features which attract a significant number of tourists; stimulating exhibitions, activities and live events presented within a dynamic new eco-building and landscape.

• It provides an important platform for the work of established and emerging artists. It also creates new art and art practice by supporting artists to respond to the specific historical, culture and ecological features of the landscape and to position such responses within a local national and global context. Project spaces, a studio and accommodation are used for long and short-term projects, residences and commissions.

• CCANW is an innovative, dynamic and authoritative centre of excellence for learning that has relevance and meaning for both experts and the broader public, both locally, nationally and globally. It also attracts new audiences for the arts that are more informed, artistically aware and encourages them to become regular visitors and active participants in the programme.
  

The real journey of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes... Marcel Proust

• Children and young people are valued as creative researchers, interpreters, practitioners and learners. Their views, voices and work feed the integrated artistic and educational programme. Relationships are developed through a dynamic schools programme, long term, process-based projects with young people’s groups, and a commitment to working with young people on ongoing projects.
  

The man who does not love his children cannot enjoy spring flowers. Basho 1644-94

• The Centre is committed to providing the highest standards of access in terms of both the physical structures of the building and surroundings, and policies with regard to employment and programming. It has worked to Arts Council access standards and to disability equality principles based on the ‘social model’ of disability. Beyond physical access, other support issues have been considered and are reflected in our equal opportunities policy covering employment, training, marketing, education and programming.

• CCANW is committed to create conditions within which people from different cultural backgrounds can be involved, on its board, as staff, exhibitors, visitors and participants. Effective involvement is likely to call for outreach projects and close liason with such organisations as the Devon and Exeter Racial Equality Council and Black Environment Network.
  

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught. Baba Dioum, Senegalese Conservationist

• Strategically placed between Bristol and St Ives/Newlyn, CCANW serves areas of the South-west to which there is significant under-provision for the visual arts.