The question of how to place a value on culture and heritage is the defining issue on which the future of investment in our sector hangs, and the question that Culture Makes… aims to answer through a bold and joyful celebration of the ways in which culture has an impact on our lives.

WE BELIEVE THAT CULTURE BENEFITS US ALL

We know that cultural and heritage organisations of all scales and locations create impact with and for their communities but to date have struggled to articulate the value of what they do in a clear and robust way. We have been caught up in binary arguments between intrinsic and social value for so long and failed to make our case effectively with the economic argument only capturing a fraction of the impact we create.

This is critical time for the cultural sector – with a general election being called at a time of ongoing standstill funding for central government, a more than £500m decline in investment from local authorities in recent years, in the face of losses due to Covid, ever-rising energy and wider cost of living increases and the news that philanthropic support of culture has more than halved - now is the moment for an overwhelmingly powerful sector voice that cannot be ignored.

#CultureMakes

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    A & B Cymru

    ARC Stockton Arts Centre

    Access All Areas

    Act On It

    All Change

    All Party Parliamentary Jazz Group

    An Tobar and Mull

    Anvil Arts

    Applause Rural Touring

    Arena Theatre

    Art UK

    Arthouse Wakefield

    Artillery CIC

    Artists Benevolent Fund

    Arts & Business NI

    Artsadmin

    Arvon

    Association of Leading Visitor Attractions

    Attic Theatre Company

    Autograph

    Awen Cultural Trust

    Babbling ​Vagabonds

    Badapple Theatre Company Ltd

    Ballet Soul

    Barbican Centre

    Belfast Buildings Trust

    Birmingham Museums Trust

    Black Lives in Music

    Boy Blue

    Bristol Old Vic

    Built Environment Trust / Building Centre

    CVAN Contemporary Visual Art Network

    Cambridge Junction

    Cardboard Citizens

    Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

    Clean Break

    Colchester Mercury Theatre

    Coniston Stonecraft

    Corby Cube Theatre Trust

    Crafts Council

    Creative Arts East

    Creative Folkestone

    Creeq Community Interest Company

    Crescent Arts Centre

    Crown Lane Productions Ltd

    Dash Arts

    Deco Publique

    Derby Theatre

    Drama and Theatre Education Alliance (DTEA)

    Dudley Museums Service

    Dundee Contemporary Arts

    Déda

    East Street Arts

    Edinburgh International Festival

    Emerald Ant CIC

    English Folk Dance and Song Society

    English Touring Theatre

    Espas

    Finding Rhythms

    First Story

    Foundation for Future London

    Fourth Monkey

    Frantic Assembly

    Fuel

    Future Arts Centres

    Go Live Theatre Projects

    Grand Union Arts CIO

    Greenwich+Docklands International Festival

    Group 64 Theatre for Young People

    Hastings Art School

    Hastings Contemporary

    Headlong Theatre

    Hereford Community Arts CIC

    Hilanderas Plaforma Culturel

    Imaginate

    Imagineer Productions

    Inside Job Productions

    Islington Festival of Music and Art

    Jaivant Patel Company

    Javaad Alipoor Company

    Jelly

    Kendal Brewery Arts

    Kids in Museums

    Living Proof

    Lakeland Arts

    Lambeth Council

    Lancaster Arts

    Landmark Arts Centre

    Lighthouse, Poole

    Literature Wales

    Litfest – Lancaster Festival of Literature

    Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art

    Lyric Belfast

    MAC

    Middle Child

    Minerva Creates CIC

    Museums Association

    Museums Galleries Scotland

    Music Mark

    Music in Offices

    Musical Theatre Network

    National Centre for Writing

    National Foundation for Youth Music

    National Museums Liverpool

    National Youth Orchestras of Scotland

    National Youth Theatre

    Nesta

    New Contemporaries

    New Writing North

    Nonsuch Studios

    Nordoff and Robbins

    Northern Ballet

    Northern Ireland Opera

    Noël Coward Foundation

    Oily Cart

    One Dance

    Open Clasp Theatre Company

    Opera Circus

    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    Orchestras Live

    Oriel Davies Gallery

    Oriel Mostyn Gallery

    Pagrav Dance Company

    Parable Dance CIC

    Park Theatre

    Phoenix Art Space

    Picturehouse Cinemas

    Playbox Theatre

    Pleasance

    Powered by Can

    Prism Arts

    Project Art Works

    Proteus

    Puppet Place Trust Ltd

    Qisetna

    Round Table Books CIC

    Roundhouse

    Royal Academy of Dance

    Royal College of Art

    Royal Literary Fund

    Royal Shakespeare Company

    SAVVY Theatre Company

    SL​I​DE

    STEAM Co.

    Same Sky

    Scottish Ballet

    Second Floor Studios & Arts

    Shakespeare North Playhouse

    Shetland Arts Development Agency

    Shobana Jeyasingh Dance

    Shubbak

    Southbank Centre

    Speech Bubbles CIO

    Stage Beyond

    Stanley Arts

    Stephen Joseph Theatre

    Storyhouse

    Streetwise Opera

    Studio Eleven

    Take A Part CIO

    Talawa

    Tees Women Poets

    The Albany

    The Blake Cottage Trust

    The Box

    The Bright Foundation

    The David Parr House

    The Dukes

    The Exchange

    The Flavasum Trust

    The Forum Norwich

    The Garage Trust Ltd

    The Javaad Alipoor Company

    The Literary Consultancy

    The Mamahood Space CIC

    The Mills Archive Trust

    The Poetry Society

    The Wordarium

    Theatr Clwyd

    Theatre and Dance Northern Ireland

    TiPP

    Tinderbox Theatre Company

    Tracks Darlington CIC

    Tramshed Arts Ltd

    Transported Art

    Trapped in Zone One

    Traverse Theatre

    Tullie Museum and Art Gallery

    UD Music Foundation

    University for the Creative Arts

    Vagina Museum

    Visual Arts South West

    Wakefield Museums & Castles

    Wiltshire Creative

    Women's Prize Trust

    World Heart Beat Music Academy

    Worthing Theatres & Museum

    York Citizens Theatre Trust

    York Theatre Royal

    Yorkshire Dance

    creativeShift CIC

    theCOLAB

    Musical Theatre Network

    Group 64 Theatre for Young People

    Royal College of Art

    Deco Publique

    Literature Wales

    Pavilion Dance South West

    David Parr House

    Barbican Theatre

    Gilded Balloon

    Dance Blast

    Avant.Dev

    Shepway HEART Forum

    Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio Essex

    Lost Lady Society

    Foundling Museum

    Heart of Glass

    Applecart Arts

    Sonia Sabri Company

    Creative Folkestone

    Norfolk & Norwich Festival

    Jacksons Lane

    Oxford House in Bethnal Green

    The Duncairn

Collective Actions


Join us to celebrate the 8 Types of Impact of Culture and Heritage each month on the following dates:

  • Creative Benefit 24.05.24

  • Economic Benefit 21.06.24

  • Social Benefit 26.07.24

  • Innovation 23.08.24

  • Educational Benefit 27.09.24

  • Mental Health and Wellbeing 25.10.24

  • Community Building 22.11.24

  • Physical Health 20.12.24

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