Council / College collaboration to rescue Peterborough’s cultural services

The operation of Peterborough’s cultural, heritage and library services will be taken over by City College Peterborough after the previous not-for-profit trust operators, Vivacity, handed back control of the loss-making enterprise to the City Council. The college is legally a department of Peterborough City Council but operates with an independent board of governors.

City College Peterborough Foundation, the college’s charitable arm, has created a trading company called City Culture Peterborough Ltd which will run the former Vivacity services. City Culture Peterborough will be accountable both to its own foundation and the city council.