We understand the transformational power of culture and the creative industries. With a 25-year track record of working across sectors, we work with you to plan, design and deliver sustainable cultural projects, demonstrate their impact, and identify opportunities for growth.
We see a world brimming with cultural and creative potential. Backed by a team of industry experts and experienced thinkers at the top of their fields, our bespoke tools give leaders and decision makers an unparalleled understanding of their cultural and creative assets and how to make the most of them.
We operate around the world to build and support a new cultural and creative economy that prioritises sustainable development and people’s wellbeing.
We have worked in over 50 countries with clients from international agencies, national and regional government departments, to city leaders and regeneration bodies, individual cultural and creative businesses.
Known for our work with cities, we built and grew the World Cities Culture Forum with the Mayor of London over the last decade. This network brings together leaders from 40 global cities to understand the role culture plays in urban development. It continues to operate under the Mayor of London’s oversight and inspired us to develop our flagship data service BOP500, the first global interactive index dedicated to cities and their cultural and creative economies.
We believe that culture and creativity weave a golden thread through all sectors of the economy and areas of public policy. They should be treated with the same seriousness as other sectors. Our rigorous data and intelligence aims to do this.
About Us
BOP Consulting
A global research and consulting practice for culture and the creative economy
Meet the team
Meet the people who work with you to plan, design and deliver sustainable cultural and creative projects, demonstrate their impact, and identify opportunities for growth.
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Paul Owens
Co-Founder and Director
Callum Lee
Managing Director
Richard Naylor
Director, Research
Rachel Kuhn
Associate Director
About BOP Consulting
The transformative power of culture and the creative industries
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Culture Counts: New Approaches to Evidence Based Cultural Policymaking in World Cities
This Case Guide is co-produced with the participating cities of WCCF. All of the city examples in this document are presented as ‘use cases’ of cultural data in which we highlight relevant questions and outcomes, and direct readers to further readings.
World Cities Culture Forum (WCCF)
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The Green World Cities of Tomorrow: Culture and Sustainability – Special Report Prepared for WCCF Global Conversation
The report published by the World Cities Culture Forum looks at how major cities around the world are responding to climate change through cultural policies and programmes.
World Cities Culture Forum (WCCF)
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Cultural and Creative Industries in the Face of COVID-19: An Economic Impact Outlook
This report aims to capture the scale of the global disruption caused by the spread of the virus. Building on an analysis of studies conducted across the world in 2020, it examines the economic impact and consequences of the pandemic on the cultural and creative industries, and explores digital innovations that have emerged in response to this unprecedented crisis.
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Arts Council - Catalyst: Evolve evaluation
Between August 2018 and March 2019, in partnership with Achates Philanthropy we undertook an evaluation of the second year of Art Council England’s Catalyst:Evolve programme, which supports arts organisations to build their fundraising capacity.
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UNESCO Global Report 2018: Reshaping Cultural Policies
Our research for UNESCO's major report on Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. The research explores to what extent creativity is contributing to development in 146 countries of the world across ten different themes, varying from technology to artists’ mobility, from gender equality to civil society engagement.
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Industry reports we've produced
We have a particular interest in cities and have pioneered innovative approaches to understanding and nurturing creative eco-systems in cities around the world using wide ranging research and data to guide our thinking. Browse some of our recent reports to get a flavour of our work.
Environmental Commitment
We believe in culture and creativity as a powerful catalyst for innovation, social development, and environmental awareness. Developed by an internal team our environmental policy not only addresses BOP’s environmental impact, but also aims to raise awareness and support organisations, cities, and people in our network to achieve sustainability. Because of these beliefs and commitments, we have earned ISO 14001 accreditation and are constantly addressing three core areas of influence:
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Our own impact: monitor our impact, minimise it, and offset what we cannot eliminate.
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Our work with clients: anchor ecological principles into our projects and support our clients to do the same.
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Our voice: raise awareness, promote, and share environmental sustainability good practice in the sector.
As part of our commitment to the environment we also support the following organisations:
Julie’s Bicycle: Mobilising the arts and culture to act on the climate emergency, we actively work with and support their work to meet the climate crisis head on.
The Woodland Trust: As an organisation dedicated to constructing and enhancing woodland and biodiversity across the UK, while also championing accessibility, we have made the decision to annually donate to the Woodland Trust.
These donations serve to compensate for our carbon output and align with our commitment to maintain our ISO 14001 accreditation. To learn more about our environmental commitment read our environmental policy here.
Social Commitment
We also support the following organisations and initiative's as part of our social commitment:
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Accumulate: Helping young, homeless people in London to build their skills, develop their wellbeing and improve their lives through creativity
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Achates Philanthropy Prize: Seeking to widen and deepen private support for arts and culture
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Full Fact: Checking facts and fighting bad information because we all deserve information we can trust
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Hope not Hate: Striving to expose and oppose extremism
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The Equality Trust: Working to improve the quality of life by dismantling structural inequalities
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Work with the Social Mobility Foundation to host two pupils through their Aspiring Professionals Programme every year
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Support our team with a cultural allowance to enable them to enjoy their chosen cultural interests.
Values and Responsibility
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ABOUT US
EXPERTISE
A global research and consulting practice for culture and the creative economy
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We are passionate about the power of the cultural and creative industries. With a 25-year track record of working across sectors worldwide, our cutting-edge data and intelligence translates into insights that help you strategically deliver projects and programmes, giving any project a transformative impact.