• Arts funding
• Collaboration
• Placemaking

With financial pressures mounting, staying true to social purpose can be a challenge for cultural organisations. The team at The Audience Agency give a shout out to those who are f…

• Disability
• Diversity
• Equality
• Placemaking

Creative People and Places (CPP) programmes take an action research approach to community engagement in arts, creativity and culture. Evaluator Jamie Buttrick has been working with…

• Collaboration
• Placemaking
• Research

Culture Central was founded as a voice for the cultural sector, working collaboratively to support a dynamic, resilient and inclusive cultural ecology in the region, writes Anthony…

• Collaboration
• Research

Arts and cultural organisations are wrestling daily with their business models to ensure sustainability. Suzie Leighton thinks they should look to their local university for suppor…

• Health and wellbeing
• Placemaking

Creative placemaking is vital for community cohesion, writes Tom Holley. But more than social benefits, it can generate significant economic returns too.

• Income
• Placemaking
• Regeneration

With the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget committing to an as-yet-unspecified ‘package of cultural infrastructure funding’, Jason Jones-Hall unpacks some of the learning and challe…

• Local authorities
• Placemaking
• Policy

At a time of increasing pressure on budgets for both arts organisations and local authorities, Gavin Barlow of The Albany explores how they might work together differently.

• Collaboration
• Scotland
• Theatre

Scotland’s arts sector has suffered continuing uncertainty in terms of public arts funding this year. Fiona Gibson, chief executive of Capital Theatres, thinks meaningful collabo…

• Access
• Collaboration
• Education

As the first Associate Director of Arts and Culture at the University of Southampton, and the Director of Turner Sims concert hall, Louise Coysh reflects on the civic role of unive…

• Collaboration
• Supporting artists

Collaboration drives opportunity, say Lucy French and Tom McKenzie. Here they discuss how collaborative and social enterprise approaches can address the need for creative spac…

• Collaboration
• Placemaking

A good partnership is based on a few basic principles. But, as Jason Jones-Hall argues, it cannot be achieved without a partnership mindset.

• Collaboration
• Education
• Museums and heritage

As the new academic year gets underway, Robert Dingle reflects on how collaboration between museums and schools can provide a richer learning experience for everybody.

• Collaboration
• Digital
• Placemaking

Fiona Morris explores the wide-ranging benefits of arts organisations building place-based partnerships. 

• Placemaking
• Policy
• Research

Universities and creative industries may seem unlikely bedfellows, but their potential – in partnership – to catalyse growth should not be underestimated, write Profess…

• Collaboration
• International

Among the thousands of art lovers that flocked to the Edinburgh Festival last month was a British Council delegation of global creative tastemakers who are working to build interna…

• Collaboration
• Participatory arts

A key question for the new government has to be how to create the conditions for artists of all backgrounds to flourish, argues Patrick Fox.

• Collaboration
• Local authorities
• Research

Cross-sector partnerships – regardless of scale – are complex. As Evelyn Wilson writes, they need time, financial resource, proactive caring and ethical handling, not t…

• Devolution
• Placemaking
• Policy

A new government means new strategies. But if they are to respond truly to what’s required at the local level, it’s up to the sector to make itself heard, says Jason Jo…

• Evaluation
• Local authorities
• Placemaking

Stephanie Wilson and Honey Gabriel reflect on Croydon's year as London Borough of Culture 2023 and look ahead to the borough’s cultural future.

• Collaboration
• International
• Law

As arts companies look internationally for new partnerships and audiences, Alex Lalak explores potential concerns about copyright protection when taking your work to China.