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Creative
Workforce
Workshops

Place

In the first in our series of 'Creative Workforce Workshops', we're investigating how 'Place' can affect the outcomes of freelance, self-employed and atypical workers in the UK's creative and cultural sectors.

Use the cards below to navigate your way around our findings and observations, and check out the three stunning new works of art commissioned as part of our 'Place' series.

With thanks to our 'Place' series funders:

Executive Summary

A quick overview of our 'Place' workshops, with some headline findings. This is a good place to start if you've only got 15 minutes going spare!

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Introduction

A more detailed contextualisation of our 'Creative Workforce Workshop' series.

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Project Design

The rational for our choice of places, the participants we interviewed and what we learned from the process.

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Selecting our Artists

An overview of our work with partner organisation ArtULTRA and our process for selecting our three talented local artists.

Meet the artists

The Workshops

Truro, Cornwall

Deep-dive

Croydon, Greater London

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Deep-dive

Rotherham, South Yorkshire

Deep-dive

The Policy

Our Observations

We've made several policy-related observations that cut across each of our three 'Place' workshops and started to compare them.

Nexts Steps

We share the ways we anticipate using our 'Place' findings to support our ongoing workforce advocacy efforts.

And finally...

Our Thanks

We take a moment to spotlight our funders, partners and supporters who've made our 'Place' workshops possible.

We think the 'Creative Workforce Workshops' findings are best explored using the online portal, so we ask that you share the link with those you think would benefit from it. However, if you prefer a PDF document, this one's for you:

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You can also download a plain text version of the report that works better for text-to-speech technology here:

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You can also download a large print version of the report here:

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