A coalition of over 150 culture and heritage organisations from across the UK celebrating the 8 Types of Impact of Culture and Heritage.

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  • 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 uses '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 150 organisations forming the coalition. 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.

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A & B Cymru
Access All Areas
Act On It
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
Artsadmin
Arvon
Association of Leading Visitor Attractions
Attic Theatre Company
Autograph
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
Cambridge Junction
Cardboard Citizens
Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Clean Break
Coniston Stonecraft
Corby Cube Theatre Trust
Crafts Council
Creative Arts East
Creative Folkestone
creativeShift CIC
Creeq Community Interest Company
Crescent Arts Centre
Crown Lane Productions Ltd
CVAN Contemporary Visual Art Network
Dash Arts
Derby Theatre
Dudley Museums Service
Dundee Contemporary Arts
East Street Arts
Edinburgh International Festival
English Touring Theatre
Finding Rhythms
First Story

Foundation for Future London
Fourth Monkey
Fuel
Future Arts Centres
Go Live Theatre Projects
Grand Union Arts CIO
Greenwich+Docklands International Festival
Hastings Art School
Hastings Contemporary
Headlong Theatre
Hilanderas Plaforma Culturel
Imagineer Productions
Inside Job Productions
Islington Festival of Music and Art
Javaad Alipoor Company
Jelly
Jaivant Patel Company
Kendal Brewery Arts
Kids in Museums
Lakeland Arts
Lancaster Arts
Landmark Arts Centre
Litfest – Lancaster Festival of Literature
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art
LIVING PROOF
Lyric Belfast
MAC
Minerva Creates CIC
Museums Association
Museums Galleries Scotland
Music in Offices
National Centre for Writing
National Foundation for Youth Music
National Museums Liverpool
National Youth Orchestras of Scotland
National Youth Theatre
New Contemporaries
New Writing North
Noël Coward Foundation
Nordoff and Robbins
Northern Ballet
Northern Ireland Opera
One Dance UK
Opera Circus
Orchestras Live
Oriel Davies Gallery
Oriel Mostyn Gallery
Pagrav Dance Company
Park Theatre
Phoenix Art Space
Picturehouse Cinemas

Pleasance
Powered by Can
Project Art Works
Puppet Place Trust Ltd
Round Table Books CIC
Roundhouse
Royal Academy of Dance
Royal Shakespeare Company
Same Sky
SAVVY Theatre Company
Scottish Ballet
Second Floor Studios & Arts
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Shetland Arts Development Agency
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance
Shubbak
Southbank Centre
Stage Beyond
Stanley Arts
Stephen Joseph Theatre
Streetwise Opera
Studio Eleven
Take A Part CIO
Talawa
The Albany
The Box
The Exchange
The Flavasum Trust
The Forum Norwich
The Literary Consultancy
The Javaad Alipoor Company
The Mamahood Space CIC
The Mills Archive Trust
The Poetry Society
Theatr Clwyd
theCOLAB
TiPP
Tracks Darlington CIC
Tramshed Arts Ltd
Transported Art
Traverse Theatre
UD Music Foundation
Vagina Museum
Visual Arts South West
Wiltshire Creative
Women's Prize Trust
World Heart Beat Music Academy
Worthing Theatres & Museum
York Citizens Theatre Trust
York Theatre Royal
Yorkshire Dance

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 20.06.24

  • Social Benefit 26.07.24

  • Innovation 23.08.24

  • Educational Benefit 27.09.24

  • Physical Health 25.10.24

  • Community Building 22.11.24

  • Mental Health and Wellbeing 20.12.24

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

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