Balineum will house several departments that will function relatively interdependently and will be mutually supportive in terms of resource and finance. We will create a venue unlike any other; a venue that will serve up a complete range of entertainments, from classical concerts, operas and ballets, modern and classic theatre, pop concerts, sporting events, and practical events such as job and career fairs. A place where we can film productions for broadcast and distribution, create original broadcast material, and provide video and audio production and editing facilities. In addition we will house a full restaurant, a cafe-bistro, bars, and a gallery-coffee shop serving both ticket holders and the general public. In short we will build one of the most complete live and recorded entertainment facilities in the country.

We will serve the community through our educational programme for schools, our work experience programmes in conjunction with local education and training organisations, and by co-operating with other venues and groups in the area to promote and stage community arts and events where possible.

The principle objectives in creating this media centre are:

Consultation with organisations and project leaders in the area have shown us that this facility would be both useful and welcome, and experience has shown us that the only way to properly establish a programme for artists and technicians while delivering the educational programme is to have complete control over the venue in which we are working, where we do not lose huge percentages of box office, are not restricted by whom we can approach for funding and sponsorship, and have free and unrestricted access to the venue.

Balineum will operate as a not for profit venue for at least the first five years, and it will be seen from the wage parities that there will be no exceptions and no favourite positions. The point of this project is to maximise the facility's employment capabillities, while steering it towards self sufficiency and inevitably profitabillity. In order to make the overall management simpler, and to ensure that all profits are poured back into the central fund to sustain the whole centre, it will be regarded for budgeting purposes as a whole, divided into sections that must each be individually sustainable and then profitable. We will be looking for the catering, hospitality and merchandising sections to ultimately provide a large proportion of the operating budget for the in-house shows, which will serve to attract people to the centre, who will then spend money eating, drinking and buying souveniers etc. The whole thing should be cyclic and self perpetuating, with the profits all going back into the centre so that we can gain independance from the funding system as soon as possible.

Of course this will not happen over night, and looking closely at the mistakes made by other, and in some cases much larger, projects in the area, we can estimate that three to five years will be needed to gain total independance (hence the initial not for profit policy). However, in seeking to provide such strong artistic, educational and work experience programmes, it can be seen that we will always look to provide value to our funders and sponsors, and something that everyone can be proud of.

Each facet of the centre will have its own speciality area: