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Creative People and Places | Inspire Your Community

Creative People and Places is about more people choosing, creating and taking part in brilliant art experiences in the places where they live.

Next Steps | Already part of Creative People and Places?

If you’ve already received funding for your Creative People and Places programme, there are several ways we can help to maximise your impact and learning:

Get Started | New to Creative People and Places?

If you’re interested in becoming a Creative People and Place, The Audience Agency can support you in the development phase of your programme in various ways:

Get Started | New to Creative People and Places?

If you’re interested in becoming a Creative People and Place, The Audience Agency can support you in the development phase of your programme in various ways:

Report | Creative People and Places: Digital Engagement & Opportunities

Insight and practical recommendations for how CPPs can harness digital tools more effectively.

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Creative Places | Supporting your local creative economy

Making places resilient and outward looking depends on creative activities of all kinds – in our professional and personal lives, in the local economy and civil society.

The Learning Diaries | Welcoming Barrow-in-Furness to the Creative People and Places family

Artist Founder Director of ArtsGene, one of the local organisations supporting Barra' Culture, reflects on what becoming a CPP will mean for the local community.

Creative Places

Bespoke place-based services for local and combined authorities, built environment professionals, creative and cultural leaders and place-based compacts, consortia and partnerships.

Feature | Reshaping our places and communities post-Covid

Cultural organisations can play a key role in creating thriving places for people to live, work and visit, but only if they reach out to creative partners beyond the local ‘culture club’.

Feature | Creative processes at the heart of Placemaking

The place in which a cultural organisation finds itself can determine how it thrives, survives or even dies, but many organisations are now taking the lead in helping places reinvent themselves. Anne Torreggiani explores the rise of place-shaping.

Top Tips | Getting creative with evaluation – 5 things to consider

Lucie Fitton believes evaluation can be fun and fruitful when you get creative about collecting feedback.

4. Places

This predominantly urban group lives within easy reach of a wide range of cultural provision, but is also prepared to travel to experience new activities and places.

Feature | Reaching Out to Young People

Thoughts and advice on how we can engage better with young people.

The Learning Diaries | 5 fantastic ways you can get young people to love evaluation.

Inspired by her recent work with the Wellcome Collection's youth teams, Ashleigh Hibbins walks us through her tried and tested tips to engaging young people with evaluation.

Creative Activities For Engaging Communities

Our Co-Creation and Participation Team offer some suggestions for creative activities to engage your communities.

International Agent | Planning for People

Jonathan Goodacre discusses developing and implementing a user-centered design thinking process through the large scale Creative Europe project Adeste+.

Creative Participation

Actively participating in arts and culture activities is just as important (if not more so than) attending in person or online venues and events, so we're keen to share our findings about people's personal creative engagement during the past few years.

The Learning Diaries | Supporting Young People's Learning

How much do arts in unusual spaces enhance young people's engagement?

The Learning Diaries | What young people really, really want from membership schemes

Working with the Barbican to gather insights into what young people want from their membership in future.

The Learning Diaries | Young feel people ghosted by power

Reflections of Beatfreeks Brum Youth Trends 2019, a report that aims to bust myths about young people and their attitude to culture.

Major new study shows younger people more willing to return to venues

The first wave of findings from our nationwide survey of changing views about participating in creative and cultural activities through the pandemic.

Shaping Places, Supporting Communities

As a cultural or creative organisation, we can support you to deepen your understanding of the creativity and people in your place, to collaborate with local communities and organisations, and to assess your impact.

Top Tips | Observational evaluation with young people

Anya reflects on her recent work evaluating CELL – a STEM learning and dance project with Key Stage 2 pupils.

People-Centred Approaches to Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development

The Audience Agency's essay for the British Council’s Cultural Heritage for Inclusive Growth pilot programme has been published.

The Learning Diaries | Exploring young people's relationship with Independent Film

Penny Mills (Chief Consultancy Officer) led a recent project with BIFA (British Independent Film Awards) to learn about under 30s' relationship with independent film.

Government cash available to grow creative businesses

The government has announced nearly £11m of funding to help grow the creative economy in England, but there are only a few days to apply for the cash...

Places

In all UK nations and regions, the arts, culture and heritage sector has been faced with new challenges through the pandemic and now the evolving cost-of-living crisis, prompting organisations to adapt to new ways of working.

4. Places

Found primarily around the edges of industrial Northern and Midlands towns, and small cities, this group is locally minded, and both unable and disinclined to travel far.

4. Places

This group lives largely in outer city and suburban areas with limited access to arts and culture, so taking opportunities to them is important for engagement.

4. Places

Located in and around urban areas, predominantly in the North and Midland regions, public transport can be a hinderance, despite being quite close to many arts offers.

4. Places

These inner city dwellers are close to a lot of cultural provision, but income and transport limitations inhibit access, so community-led, local co-creation is very important.

4. Places

Found in semi-detacheds and suburban terraces across the UK, they are likely to be well embedded in the local fabric and willing to travel into town centres by car for events.

4. Places

These leafy greenbelt suburbanites are found especially in the south, in easy commuting distance of urban centres, and in areas with a strong sense of community involvement.

4. Places

A suburban cohort concentrated heavily around the South East and North West, with average levels of arts and cultural provision locally, but a willingness to travel for treats.

Out and About | Highlights from our 'Creative Levelling Up' webinar

Richard Leeming reflects on a wide range of fascinating and impactful speakers' real world examples of how they’re delivering transformative schemes in their local areas.

Your Area Is Going Places

Culture is a catalyst for placemaking

Event Blog | R U Engaging Young People

From youth panels and co-production projects to internships and volunteering opportunities...

The Learning Diaries | Connecting young people to their rural communities

A spotlight on Great Place Lakes and Dales.

The Learning Diaries | Creative learning within the criminal justice system

Reflections on practice and evaluation from poet and writer Louisa Adjoa Parker.

Case in Point | Peterborough Presents

Working with Peterborough Presents to evaluate and evolve its Creative People and Places action research programme into an active model for social representation and creative change.

Case in Point | East Durham Creates

How a Creative People and Places participant combined Audience Finder and Audience Spectrum insights to build an audience representative of its local population.

Feature | Can you quantify class?

Asking questions about someone’s social class may feel uncomfortable. But, given the right approach, people are less sensitive than you might think.

Feature | Audience Development is dead. Long live Audience Centred Design.

Technocratic, old-school approaches to building audiences have only worked among privileged groups. The sector needs to think harder about what people actually want, says Anne Torreggiani.

Feature | Can the arts tackle digital exclusion?

New research highlights how cultural organisations could play a key role in demystifying the internet to non-users, writes Katie Moffat.

International Agent | On Tour Autumn 2019

The Audience Agency has been participating in a number of engagements around the world; meeting, contributing and learning as they go.

Case Studies | Cultivator

The Cornwall-based Creative and Cultural Leadership Development Programme's inaugural year is drawing to a close, and the first cohort of creative and cultural practitioners to have taken part are ready to reflect upon its impact.

Audience Report | Museums

This report demonstrates the breadth of people museums are able to engage through their diverse appeal, collections, learning activities and specialist knowledge.

Working Internationally

From individual audience participation workshops to large-scale, multi-organisation and consortia collaborative research, we can tailor our services to suit your needs.

Toolkit | Build Back Creatively

This toolkit is a practical document that you can begin using today to work out how you to boost your local creative economy.

The Learning Diaries | Research for Everyone: participatory research and evaluation

Research Assistant, Sophie Hobson, reflects on the particularities and similarities of creating participatory research experiences that are accessible for people with autism.

The Learning Diaries | Audiences: Diversity and Representation

Lucie Fitton and Gabrielle Young discuss great ideas that were generated at the recent Young people in the Arts event