Creative & Cultural Sectors

Rosie McPherson

Artistic Director of Stand and Be Counted

"We've wanted to have more influence on policy making for years. Culture Commons opened that door. We've now put across our views to the Home Office and had a meaningful response and that's just major for us."

We regularly work with clients and partners with a focus on the creative and cultural sectors in professional networks, trade bodies, trade unions, sub-sector representative bodies, arms length bodies, grant giving organisations and individual partitioners.

Our team has worked in the creative and cultural sectors - as leaders, but also as freelance, self-employed and atypical workers. In fact, some of our team are still working in the creative and cultural sectors part-time to this day, fusing their experiences in policy making and practice, helping us to keep our finger on the pulse. It is our unique blend of sectoral, policy and parliamentary knowledge that gives us the ability to design policy that will connect with decision makers.

If you or your organisation has been thinking about they might influence policy at the local or national levels, then we're here to help you.

As a consultancy with lots of in-house experience, we can support you with any of your policy and advocacy related ambitions. Here's just a snapshot of some of things we've been supporting the creative and cultural sectors with in recent months:

Strategic support to Creative and Executive Directors
Planning engaging policy events - from roundtables to post-show discussions
Translating live cultural projects into coherent policy positions
Designing policy impact and advocacy plans
Developing new taxonomies of creative, cultural and heritage capitals
Convening meetings & events with policy makers
Political, policy and legislative horizon scanning
Designing and deploying effective issue-based campaigns