The results of the third Heritage Panel survey from thrive, Northern Ireland’s audience development agency. The Heritage Panel tracks audience’s views on returning to heritage, what has changed, what has stayed the same and what their attitudes are.    

How has Covid-19 affected diversity in the creative and cultural sectors? This report highlights the negative impact of the pandemic including the reduction of job and financial security, widening patterns of exclusion and reduction of job opportunities. It also details a set of industry and policy recommendations.

Rob Lawson, Press Officer at The Cultural Spring takes us through how their team quickly pivoted their methods of delivery in response to Covid-19. Find out how they contributed to the improved wellbeing of participants, enhanced connections and also supported local artists and creative practitioners.  

How Farnham Maltings put the community at the heart of everything they do from fundraising campaigns to building an organisational mission. A case study by the ticketing and box office software provider Ticketsolve to support their sponsorship of the Small Scale Development Programme: Wales 2022  

The Insights Alliance (Baker Richards, Indigo and One Further) look back on 18 months of data gathered directly from cultural audiences – the fluctuations in confidence levels, the key dividing issues and the lessons we’ve learnt along the way.

The UK Disability Arts Alliance 2021 Survey Report is the first to focus specifically on the impact of the pandemic on disabled people and organisations in arts & culture. The survey reveals an alarmingly fragile cultural environment for disabled people, full of intersectional inequalities. The Survey Report has been compiled by Alistair Gentry and edited by Andrew ... Read more

We Shall Not Be Removed has worked in partnership with Ramps on the Moon, Attitude is Everything, Paraorchestra, and What Next? to create a new guide for the arts and entertainment sectors to support disability inclusion. Their Seven Inclusive Principles for Arts & Cultural Organisations working safely through COVID-19 is designed to complement the suite of guidance documents already issued by UK ... Read more

Creative People and Places in Lockdown: responses and learning is a short series of  five case studies that explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on CPP projects and how they responded. Each of the five case studies explores a different theme. In the fifth case study Kathryn Welch reflects on some of the themes ... Read more

Merrin Kalinowski, Museum Marketing Relationship Manager at Art Fund explains the benefits of their free ticketing system, Art Tickets. Built by museums, for museums the platform includes functionality for time ticketing, online events, membership and donations.

The May 2021 findings from the Culture Restart research by the Insights Alliance, a partnership between Baker Richards, Indigo and One Further. The research supports cultural organisations at all stages of reopening, and will track customer sentiment over six months, giving organisations instant access to audience insight and building a national picture for the benefit of the whole sector.

Research from the Chartered Institute of Fundraising’s Cultural Sector Network, RAISE: Arts, Culture & Heritage, The University of Sheffield’s Management School and the University of Kent highlights how arts and cultural fundraisers were impacted by and managed the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

A new study released by TRG Arts and UK arts data specialists Purple Seven, Green Shoots in April 2021?, is based on data collected from the COVID-19 Sector Benchmark, an initiative led by TRG Arts and Purple Seven, which has grown into the largest global arts and cultural consumer dataset in the industry. Data from venues in ... Read more

Like most arts organisations in the UK, the Covid-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the activities of Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT). However, the team at BOAT have shown remarkable resilience in implementing changes and learnings into their work throughout the past year, in order to safely welcome families back to their open ... Read more

Kizzie Burkett, Account Manager at the international arts and live entertainment marketing agency AKA outlines 17 productive and real actions you can take now to enable you to put your best foot forwards before reopening.

The digital agency Substrakt organised a roundtable to reflect on the different ways organisations have responded during the Covid-19 pandemic. They gathered a range of industry professionals from various organisations across the UK, USA and Canada to share their own experiences using digital in new ways, on the new ideas generated, and on the things ... Read more

Hannah Mason, Head of Social Entrepreneur Support, Creative United talks to Jen Chapman Head of Marketing and Sales, Storyhouse about launching a new membership scheme during a pandemic. One of a series of AMAculturehive podcasts commissioned for The Learning Lounge, AMA Arts Marketing Festival 2020.

Katy Raines, Indigo looks at health and safety, access, financial, social and brand reassurances that you must give audiences in order to build confidence to return.

The March 2021 findings from the Culture Restart research by the Insights Alliance, a partnership between Baker Richards, Indigo and One Further. The research supports cultural organisations at all stages of reopening, and will track customer sentiment over six months, giving organisations instant access to audience insight and building a national picture for the benefit of the whole sector.

A new study of performing arts organisations in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. by TRG Arts and U.K. arts data specialists Purple Seven shows a decline in philanthropic revenue in 2020 on both sides of the Atlantic. David Brownlee and Eric Nelson examine the findings.

TRG Arts’ analysis of performing arts box office data at the one-year anniversary of the Covid-19 shutdown reveals catastrophic impact on both sides of the Atlantic. David Brownlee, Managing Director, Purple Seven, takes us through the findings.