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CDF Symposium: Developing People Businesses and Communities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2rV-SEYw-I Re-Imagining Place: Sustainable and Inclusive Growth Through Culture, took place at the Guildhall Worcester in March 2023, offering opportunities to celebrate, share learning, connect...

CDF Symposium: Activating Spaces

https://youtu.be/mW9GZQy4fow Re-Imagining Place: Sustainable and Inclusive Growth Through Culture, took place at the Guildhall Worcester in March 2023, offering opportunities to celebrate, share learning, connect...

CDF Symposium: Capital Projects

https://youtu.be/BhhL_j4lE0o Re-Imagining Place: Sustainable and Inclusive Growth Through Culture, took place at the Guildhall Worcester in March 2023, offering opportunities to celebrate, share learning, connect...

DCMS introduction to CDF (R1)

VIDEO: With the five Cultural Development Fund (CDF) first round projects now complete, funders DCMS and Arts Council England opened the CDF symposium, Re-Imagining Place, with introductions to the fund and the first round projects from Lord Parkinson (DCMS) and Paul Bristow (ACE)

Insights and Inspiration from CDF Network

The Creative Industries Policy Evidence Centre (Creative PEC) has published a suite of resources designed for those working in Local Authorities (LAs) who are considering investing in their creative industries, including a number of case studies from the Cultural Development Fund (CDF) Network and Pioneering Places projects.

RTPI Planning Awards

RTPI Planning Awards: Pioneering Places nominated as Best Project Pioneering Places, a cultural placemaking project delivered across four locations in Kent by leading cultural and...

Role of heritage and culture in levelling up

“Forgotten” heritage sites and cultural organisations recognised for role played in ‘Levelling Up’ local towns and cities Cultural regeneration projects at disused heritage sites across...

Levelling up through culture and heritage

Although conceived years before the phrase became a central part of government policy, the achieved outcomes of Pioneering Places provide evidence of what Levelling Up might look like in practice, with the right focus, partners and ambition. With all four of the project locations based in local authorities identified as priority one areas in the Levelling Up Prospectus, and specific sites such as the Folkestone gasworks and Ramsgate’s East Cliff in the top 10% most deprived wards in the country, there is a clear need to find new, innovative and creative ways to address the issues of our left-behind towns and smaller cities. 

Conrad Shawcross: Beacons (2021)

New major artwork by renowned artist Conrad Shawcross commissioned by local school children launched in Ramsgate. As part of Pioneering Places East Kent - the...

Heritage-led regeneration: Do less. Impose less. Make the building the star.

Canterbury youth creating new histories through heritage Faced with some "fairly difficult choices" over what to do with the 13th century former Poor Priest's Hospital...

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