A UK-wide campaign celebrating the 8 Types of Impact of Culture and Heritage.

We are currently in the sign-up phase and are inviting all UK cultural and heritage organisations to join us ready for the official launch in May 2024.

Join us today.

  • 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 our forthcoming Culture Makes… campaign aims to answer through a bold and joyful celebration of the ways in which culture has an impact on our lives.

  • 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.

  • Culture Makes... will launch at a critical time for the cultural sector; 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.

  • The Campaign will use 'The 8 Types of Impact of Culture and Heritage ©’ as a simple tool to enable all cultural organisations to celebrate the ways in which culture and heritage as an ecosystem have value whilst showcasing the impacts their individual organisation creates.

  • 'The 8 Types of Impact of Culture and Heritage' are Creative, Economic, Social Benefit, Innovation, Education, Physical Health, Community Building and Mental Health. It's worth noting that diversity isn't an impact we can isolate, but rather is a value that should sit across everything organisations do, and so outputs and outcomes in each of the types of impact relate to diversity.

  • Culture Makes.... is free to join, open to all culture and heritage organisations in the UK and goes live on 1 May 2024 with over 30 organisations confirmed to date. Organisations can now sign up to participate and register for our Online Information session on April 9th at 2pm. This will be available to view after the event for those who register for the session. Follow #CultureMakes

  • We welcome artists, creatives and academics to join us in spreading the word about the campaign and sharing your perspective of the impact of culture by signing up as Campaign Ambassadors.

  • Audiences can join the campaign on Instagram, X and LinkedIn. Follow #CultureMakes

WE BELIEVE THAT CULTURE BENEFITS US ALL.

​​20 Stories High; Access All Areas; All Change; All Party Parliamentary Jazz Group; An Tobar and Mull; Anvil Arts; Applause Rural Touring; ARC Stockton Arts Centre; Arthouse Wakefield; Artillery CIC; Artists Benevolent Fund; Arts & Business NI; Association of Leading Visitor Attractions; Attic Theatre Company; Autograph; Badapple Theatre Company Ltd; Ballet Soul; Belfast Buildings Trust; Birmingham Museums Trust; Black Lives in Music; Bristol Old Vic; Built Environment Trust / Building Centre; Cambridge Junction; Cardboard Citizens; Coniston Stonecraft; Crafts Council; Creative Arts East; CVAN; Contemporary Visual Art Network; Dash Arts; Derby Theatre; Dudley Museums Service; Dundee Contemporary Arts; Edinburgh International Festival; First Story; Foundation for Future London; Fourth Monkey; Future Arts Centres; Greenwich+Docklands International Festival; Hastings Art School; Hastings Contemporary; Hilanderas Plaforma Culturel; Imagineer Productions; Islington Festival of Music and Art; Javaad Alipoor Company; Jaivant Patel Company; Kids in Museums; Lakeland Arts; Litfest – Lancaster Festival of Literature; LIVING PROOF; Lyric Theatre Belfast; MAC; Museums Galleries Scotland; Music in Offices; National Centre for Writing; National Foundation for Youth Music; National Museums Liverpool; National Youth Orchestra Scotland; National Youth Theatre; New Contemporaries; Noël Coward Foundation; Northern Ballet; Northern Irish Opera; Opera Circus; Oriel Davies Gallery; Oriel Mostyn Gallery; Park Theatre; Picturehouse Cinemas; Pleasance; Powered by Can; Round Table Books CIC; Roundhouse; Royal Academy of Dance; Royal Shakespeare Company; SAVVY Theatre Company; Scottish Ballet; Shakespeare North Playhouse; Shetland Arts Development Agency; Southbank Centre; Stage Beyond; Stanley Arts; Stephen Joseph Theatre; Stephen Spender Trust; Studio; Eleven; Talawa; The Albany; The Exchange; The Javaad Alipoor Company; The Literary Consultancy; The Mamahood Space CIC; The Mills Archive Trust; Theatr Clwyd; theCOLAB; Tracks; Darlington CIC; Transported Art; Traverse Theatre; Vagina Museum; Womens Prize Trust; World Heart Beat Music Academy; Worthing Theatres & Museum; Yorkshire Dance; and York Theatre Royal.

The campaign is free to join and goes live on May 1. With over 100 Partners signed up to date, we invite all culture and heritage organisations to join us.

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Culture Makes… is made possible by sponsorship from Achates and Pentagram.

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