Who We Are?
Salt Arts CIC celebrates the community and places that make SE Cornwall and the Tamar Valley so special.
We work with individuals, businesses and community organisations to deliver cultural projects.
Our Objectives are to:
- Strengthen, diversify and build the cultural sector in the region.
- Facilitate a wide range of cultural and creative projects.
- Grow new talent and engage a wide audience.
We aim to create work which:
- Has longevity and will grow and become embedded in communities for years to come.
- Brings genuine long-term benefits to users and communities.
- Through excellent content will inspire, entertain, educate and instil happiness and wellbeing.
From tiny seeds of ideas to activities reaching thousands of people – if it sparks the imagination, we will nurture and support to bring that vision to life.
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Research & Development
Consulting with stakeholders.
Exploring opportunities and assessing risks.
Producing feasibility studies and delivery plans (versions A, B and sometimes also C).
Fundraising and income generation.
Creating Connections
Finding people with exceptional skills for all areas of delivery.
Setting up collaborations, defining responsibilities and agreeing terms.
Administrating collaboration and service level agreements, contracts and IPR.
Managing co-production partnerships with stakeholders including individuals, community groups, funders, education organisations, local authorities and businesses.
Delivery
Managing schedules and finances.
Supervising multiple workflows.
Managing tenders, sourcing suppliers and procurement.
Locating, securing and setting up spaces, venues and locations.
Liaising with agencies such as traffic management, the police and public authorities.
Public Engagement & Participation
Public feedback and research for consultation, co-curation and community led activities.
Producing workshops and public collaborative activity.
Engaging, training and managing volunteers.
Progressing equality and diverse representation within projects.
Marketing.
Press & public relations.
Ticketing & data management.
Evaluation & Reporting
Managing tenders for evaluation and working with external evaluators.
Gathering qualitative and quantitative data.
Analysis of feedback, data and box office information.
Report and evaluation writing and dissemination.
Delivery of data to funders and other stakeholders.
Salt Arts CIC is a non-profit Community Interest Company with charitable objectives.



Lindsay Endean
Salt Arts CIC Director
Lindsay set up Salt Arts to make things she loves with people she thinks are fab. Her career has taken her from orchestras in Oxford to libraries in Croydon and shops in Covent Garden, and more recently on to commemorations in Plymouth and music in Cornwall. High points include opening a community arts venue in a former drugs factory and watching 30,000 people follow a very large dragon around Plymouth (these two things are not connected). The single low point was probably eating an insect-flour cookie in the name of Public Engagement.
Lindsay lives in Cornwall with two children, a husband and a cat and any spare time is for sailing.

Ambika Olney
Saltash Studios Venue & Co-Work Administrator
After travelling in her early 20s, Ambika chose to pursue a freelance career in graphic design and video editing to create a flexible work-life balance while raising her family. She balances her current role with SaltArts CIC and the Saltash Studios initiative alongside freelance projects. Her diverse portfolio includes work for local authorities, festivals, small businesses, charities and CICs, with a focus on projects that align with her community values and passion for social impact. With a degree in Media Studies and a background in sales management, she brings a broad skill set to each project she’s involved in. Ambika lives in Cornwall with her husband and two children, along with three chickens, a snake and a blind dog. When not working, she’s baking, fermenting, or knee-deep in whatever creative mess has caught her attention that day.

Kirstie Dickson MSc
Saltash Studios Venue & Co-Work Administrator
Kirstie is a designer maker who started her career making costume for Theatre, Film & TV. After challenging herself to complete her first academic qualification in her 30’s her career took a new direction in marketing & events but she is still addicted to stitching and all things sparkly.
Kirstie brings her creative & planning skills to her local community in Saltash & St Germans volunteering to organize community events, workshops & fundraisers and is a trustee for a local youth project.
Spare time is spent travelling, gardening, stitching, enjoying life with her whirling dervish grandson or cosied up with a good book and a cat.