Creative Producers is a programme created for British Council delivered over three-years that develops the cultural economy and creative skills across Central Asia and Wider Europe. It supports and develops artists, projects and festivals in the formation of a contemporary and experimental arts scene lead by different practitioners acting as a sector. Driving best practice, fair pay and high standards of safety and accessibility we have launched the careers of over 150 young producers. Learn more about our training at www.creativeproducertraining.com

Curated Place’s training team worked with the Royal Opera House to take the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme out of their spectacular Covent Garden venue and into London’s international rail hub - St Pancras International. Our tools and systems ensured their high-profile International Women’s Day project for 2022 “Lost and Found” met the needs of an incredibly complex stakeholder group including the many departments of The Royal Opera House, HS2, Network Rail and international partners Casco Phil and Europalia Festival.

Curated Place were commissioned by Derbyshire County Council and Derbyshire’s CHAT Board to create a new Cultural Framework for Derbyshire providing a focus for significant investment into the sector whilst encouraging collaboration and renewed effort to maximise the social and economic benefits for all across the diverse county. The Framework aims to raise the profile of culture in its many forms and shine a light on the beautiful county at the centre of the country. Download the framework.

Curated Place have been commissioned by Bury Council to develop a Cultural Strategy for Bury. As the inaugural Greater Manchester Town of Culture, Bury has increasingly positioned culture at the heart of local strategic planning, including playing a key role in the Borough’s response to and recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. A key element of this has been the determination of the role culture will play in the delivery of the Let’s Do It strategy, during and as a legacy of being Town of Culture. Download the strategy

Curated Place were commissioned by CVAN North West to inform the organisation’s Strategic Development going forwards by carrying out research across three key fields: Health & Wellbeing, the Climate Emergency and Place making. The work focuses on the need to develop new employment opportunities for visual artists, form more inclusive and representational delivery methods, and to identify the role and value of the Arts in the building back better agenda to ensure social impact of the visual arts is widely understood.

Curated Place worked with Tameside MBC to develop a new Cultural Framework to provide a coherent vision and mechanism for delivering both a culture led programme of COVID recovery and the Arts Council England’s new 10 year strategy “Let’s Create”. The work’s core focus is on providing a coherent yet agile vision to act as a catalyst fuelling the underdeveloped creative economy in order to financially support the culture offer, upskill and retain talent, develop new cultural entrepreneurs and attract new investment into Tameside.

Curated Place worked alongside BID Leamington to investigate the feasibility of recreating a modern, relevant, and inclusive version of the historic Lights of Leamington - reimagined for the 21st century. Our work focussed on identifying the festival vision, key ambitions, relevant stakeholders, and varying constraints on developing a sustainable, relevant and inclusive festival with a positive impact on the town and region. Alongside we delivered a costed plan alongside risk management and mitigation plan providing budget recommendations and a skeleton event management plan to take the event plan forward.