Insights

Arts festivals are a vital part of the UK cultural sector, with more than 1,000 taking place nationwide. Our research for the British Arts Festivals Association has found they are at a critical juncture.

Our new report with City-REDI forecasts that the BBC will contribute an additional £282 million in gross value added (GVA) to the West Midlands region by 2031.

As the global economy resets into a new mode following the global pandemic, to what extent will the creative sector play a role in facilitating growth, and which cities are the key players in that story?

A follow-up to our 2010 and 2015 Impact Studies, our Edinburgh Festivals Impact Assessment involved more than 22,000 participants.

Working alongside CRAIC, a new research and collaboration centre at Loughborough University, we conducted an extensive survey of virtual production assets throughout the United Kingdom to map the country’s growing ecosystem.

British Land and New Diorama Theatre reveal the substantial social and economic impact of their 12 month-long NDT Broadgate initiative, which saw 20,000sq ft of creative space provided to over 8,800 independent and freelance artists free of charge over 2021-2022.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport Culture Recovery Fund is the largest one-off package for culture in England’s history. Working alongside ECORYS and IPSOS we are pleased to share the evaluation report. The Fund supported more than 5000 organisations and sites. In turn, these organisations supported over 100,000 jobs and another 100,000 freelancers.

In 2022, the UK’s Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre published for the first time a sub-sector by sub-sector overview of the Creative Industries and net zero.

World Cities Culture Report provides a global view on the state of culture in our cities. It gives insights on the major challenges facing world cities and a vision for the future. It is a unique research output produced with input and insights from 41 partner cities across six continents, 12 global experts, 40 city leaders, four roundtables, and 40 data sets over two years.

This report offers insightful new data that shed light on emerging trends at a global level, as well as putting forward policy recommendations to foster creative ecosystems that contribute to a sustainable world by 2030 and beyond.

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.

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.