Over the last ten years, Arts Council England have dedicated £116 million to funding place-based programmes that are predicated on arts and culture acting as a key component in delivering lasting benefits for people and places. As they begin to deliver Let’s Create their new strategy for 2020 to 2030, Arts Council England wanted to understand the role existing place-based investment programmes have played in delivering economic and social outcomes and what lessons can be learned from completed studies of those programmes to inform future policy.
Over the last ten years, Arts Council England have dedicated £116 million to funding place-based programmes that are predicated on arts and culture acting as a key component in delivering lasting benefits for people and places. As they begin to deliver Let’s Create their new strategy for 2020 to 2030, Arts Council England wanted to understand the role existing place-based investment programmes have played in delivering economic and social outcomes and what lessons can be learned from completed studies of those programmes to inform future policy.
