Phil Walker has only been in his post as head of cultural services at Gloucester City Council for three weeks, but he has already set out some ambitious targets.

Charged with overseeing some of the city's seen and unseen gems, Mr Walker has a key role in ensuring Gloucester's renaissance isn't confined to just bricks and mortar.

With the Museum of Gloucester and Guildhall under his direct control he has plans in place to improve the cultural offering.

However, he knows the most important job will be to keep all of the other organisations who are trying to do their bit for the city singing from the same hymn sheet.

Mr Walker joined Punchline editor Mark Owen on air as a guest on BBC Radio Gloucestershire's Breakfast Show this morning.

Speaking to host Mark Cummings, he said: "I am really enjoying the job so far.

"While I am part of the city council and in charge of culture there, my role is to bring the city's cultural offering together.

"A big part of it is developing partnerships and making sure that this city punches above its weight with its cultural offer.

"There are loads of different organisations doing lots of things and my job is to ensure that the Culture Trust is talking to the Quays and the festivals and to Marketing Gloucester.

"If we bring that all together, we create a great and unified city offering.

"I would love to be involved with the Tall Ships Festival. In my role in Bristol I was responsible for running the Harbour Festival and also bringing back the St Paul's Carnival.

"I have been involved in large-scale festivals, so I would love to help out in any way I can."

Pressed on whether that would involve a more 'hands-on' role in Marketing Gloucester - a company currently independent of the council - Mr Walker wouldn't answer.

Instead he wanted to concentrate on what he is charged with overseeing, like the museum and Guildhall - both of which run at annual losses.

"We need to be much more efficient as a business," he said. "As a cultural business we need to be more efficient in how we run and I will be looking at that.

"That will be partly down to the programme of events, but the Guildhall should be Gloucester's premier arts venue.

"It's not just about running commercial events, culturally it has to be exciting too.

"One of the key things I want to do is bring in investment to our cultural offering, to the guildhall and museum.

"The Department for Culture Media and Sport have announced that there will be funding available for culture for £250million for projects across the country.

"We will be pitching for some of that money and it will be a mark of my success if we can bring investment in.

"We also want to bring some unity to what we offer across the city and raise the aspirations of what we're doing in the city."