The Future of Cultural Devolution in the UK
Partners
Arts Council England
Creative Industries Council
Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
Historic England
Local Government Association
RSA
Belfast City Council
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority
Cardiff Council
Durham County Council
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
North East Combined Authority
Harlow District Council
Sheffield City Council via Sheffield Culture Collective
South Yorkshire Combined Authority
Wigan Council
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Art Fund
Association of Leading Visitor Attractions
Creative Estuary
Culture Counts
Gulbenkian Foundation
Historic England
Libraries Connected
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Centre for Cultural Value
Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, (University of Liverpool)
University of Dundee
University of Kent
University of Leeds
University of Warwick
Type
Open policy development programme
Delivery year
2024 - 2025
Culture Commons has been leading a major open policy development programme examining how devolution and increase local decision making will impact on the UK’s creative, cultural and heritage ecosystem.
In a coalition of 30 partners from across the regions and nations of the UK and our sub-sectors, we have published extensive new research and co-designed policies that will help our sectors to make the most of the opportunities that devolution has to offer to different communities.
This new digital policy portal sets out all the key findings we have been able to make following a full year of deep-dive insight gathering and active listening to our sectors, researchers, the public and decision makers.
The six new policy principles and 20 preliminary policy recommendations coming out of the programme have already influenced key regional and national policies.
We are now developing phase two of the programme in 2025 with a view to launching towards the end of the year. If you’d be interested in working with us, please get in touch.
Steering Panel
Jane Richardson
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Bernard Donoghue OBE
Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA)
Rachael Browning
Art Fund
Paul Bristow
Arts Council England
Lesley-Anne O’Donnell
Belfast City Council
Jules Ient
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority
Ruth Cayford
Cardiff Council
Professor Ben Walmsley
Centre for Cultural Value
Lorainne Cox
Creative Estuary
Fran Hegyi OBE
Creative Industries Council
Bernard Hay
Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
Trevor MacFarlane FRSA
Culture Commons
Lori Anderson & Laura Dyer
Culture Counts (Scotland)
Alison Clark
Durham Council / North East Combined Authority
Marie-Claire Daly
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Luis Jeronimo
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Rory Davies
Harlow Playhouse
Robert Llyod-Sweet
Historic England
Isobel Hunter MBE
Libraries Connected
Lauren Lucas
Local Government Association
Holly Donagh
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Evy-Cauldwell French
RSA
Diana Buckley
Sheffield City Council
Surriya Falconer & Martin McKervey
Sheffield Culture Collective
Andy Gates
South Yorkshire Combined Authority
Professor Anita Taylor
University of Dundee
Alison McKenzie Folan OBE
Wigan Council
