£150m of investment for six devolved English regions
At the 2025 Labour Party Conference, the UK Government has announcement £25 million over three years for six mayoral regions - a significant boost for creative industries. Beyond the headline, the question for us at Culture Commons is: how does this investment advance the case for cultural devolution?
Government launches ‘Pride in Place’ programme: how do our sectors factor?
On 25 September 2025, the government launched its Pride in Place Strategy as part of the Plan for Change. What began as a pilot is now a flagship national policy - backed with long-term funding and new powers for communities.
Supporting the UK Government with a new national outcomes framework for local authorities
Culture Commons has been attending a series of high level roundtables hosted by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to help support the development of the emergent Local Government Outcomes Framework (LGOF).
Minster endorses our policy on cultural infrastructure for New Towns
New Towns Taskforce report drawing on Culture Commons policy cited in an evidence session in a cross-party House of Lords committee.
New draft law on English Devolution lands
The UK Government has today published the ‘English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill’ - a game-changing moment for local decision making across England.