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DCMS - Financial Resources
The resource explains how new UK initiatives, including a Creative Industries Finance Map, aim to help creative businesses access funding more easily by connecting them with investors, finance tools, and regional support networks.
Approx. reading time: 5-10 minutes
ACE: Investment Principles Resource Hub
The Arts Council England Investment Principles Resource Hub provides guidance, tools, and examples to help cultural organisations apply the four “Let’s Create” investment principles - ambition and quality, dynamism, environmental responsibility, and inclusivity and relevance - in their work and funding applications.
Approx. reading time: 3–5 mins (hub overview only)
Creative Careers Support
The Meet Eric Library is a curated hub of creative career resources, opportunities, and industry insights designed to help young people explore pathways into the creative industries.
Approx. reading time: 5–8 mins to browse the main library.
Trans Aware - trans-led inclusions training service
TransAware provides training, consultancy, and support resources focused on improving awareness, inclusion, and advocacy for transgender and non-binary people in organisations and communities.
Approx. reading time: 2–4 mins for the homepage, varied for resources within the site.
Cultural Tax Reliefs Impact Review (Feb 2026)
The review evaluates UK cultural tax reliefs and finds they increase arts income, production, and international activity, while recommending the schemes be continued and strengthened.
Approx. reading time: 15–25 mins
Intelligence Report on Ecosystem Collapse (Jan 2026)
The article argues that global ecosystem collapse and tropical deforestation threaten UK security, food systems, and the economy, and calls for stronger UK action through trade, finance, and deforestation regulation.
Approx. reading time: 4–6 mins.
CVAN England’s response to the Hodge Review
The CVAN England response summarises reactions to the Hodge Review of Arts Council England, supporting funding protections and calling for stronger investment in visual arts infrastructure.
Approx. reading time: 6–8 mins.
Arts Council England- an independent review by Baroness Margaret Hodge (Dec 2025)
The independent review examines Arts Council England’s role, funding system, and effectiveness, and recommends retaining the organisation while reducing bureaucracy and strengthening arm’s-length independence from government.
Approx. reading time: 20–30 mins.
Anti-Exploitation Academy (UNLIMITED)
A self-paced resource made up of short modules that explain how exploitation happens in the arts sector and how to challenge it through fairer working practices and boundaries.
Approx. reading time: ~60 minutes (full course).
Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security (Jan 2026)
The UK national security assessment warns that global biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse could significantly threaten UK food security, supply chains, and national stability, with risks of cascading economic and geopolitical disruption.
Approx. reading time: 6–8 mins.
Studio Affordability – Herbert Affordability Formula
The page outlines studio affordability pressures in London’s visual arts sector and explores pricing models like the Herbert affordability formula.
Approx. reading time: 4–6 mins.
Creating a Collaboration Rider (artist care) by Jack Ky Tan (Feb 2026)
The report assesses how UK cultural tax reliefs for theatre, orchestras, and museums/galleries improve income, output, international activity, and sector resilience across the creative industries.
Approx. reading time: 15–25 mins.
Successful funding applications (The White Pube) (Nov 2020)
The White Pube Funding Library is a collection of real successful funding applications used to help artists and creatives learn how to write stronger grant applications and understand what funders look for.
Approx. reading time: 2–4 mins.
Artswork - creative career support
The website describes a UK charity that empowers children and young people through creativity, helping them build skills, confidence, and pathways into creative careers through training, programmes, and youth-led projects.
Approx. reading time: 2–3 mins.
Culture Fix: The Conscious Organisation (Dec 2025)
The provocation paper argues that cultural organisations should become more conscious, caring workplaces by addressing toxic cultures, improving leadership behaviours, and embedding long-term organisational change.
Approx. reading time: 8–12 mins.
Creative Freelancer’s Climate Almanac (Julie’s Bicycle) (May 2025)
The Julie’s Bicycle toolkit is a practical guide for cultural organisations on measuring and reducing carbon emissions across creative production, touring, and operations, with tools, case studies, and step-by-step sustainability actions.
Approx. reading time: 10–15 mins.
The Elefsina Manifesto: Envisioning a Culture of Care (July 2023)
The Elefsina Manifesto is a call for cultural organisations and artists to adopt a politics and ethics of care to improve wellbeing, equity, and social connection.
Approx. reading time: 6–8 mins.
The Gallery Climate Coalition
The Gallery Climate Coalition is an international charity and membership organisation that helps the visual arts sector reduce carbon emissions by at least 50% by 2030 and move towards zero waste through shared tools, guidance, and collective action.
Approx. reading time: 2–4 mins.
Going global: a guide for disabled artists
The guide provides practical advice, tips, and resources for disabled artists to develop international careers while addressing access, travel, safety, and working abroad challenges.
Approx. reading time: 6–8 mins.
Calderdale Creates: Creative Directory
An online hub connecting creatives, cultural organisations, freelancers, and opportunities across Calderdale to support collaboration, visibility, and growth within the local creative sector.
Approx. reading time: 3–5 mins to browse the main directory.