Future Arts Centres is supporting and training arts centres to use a story-based evaluation methodology, Most Significant Change (MSC), to […]

Most Significant Change (MSC) is a participatory, qualitative evaluation approach. Future Arts Centre is using MSC in a range of […]

Future Arts Centres frequently conducts research about arts centres for the benefit of our members.   Salary benchmarking Annual salary […]

A key strand of our work involves supporting art centre leaders to grow in confidence and efficiency when working with […]

Action Research Groups (ARGs) are an opportunity for a small group of FAC members to explore a key topic in […]

Arts centres as creative enterprises In early 2024, a small group of FAC members met six times to interrogate the […]

Upcoming opportunities and events available to any Future Arts Centres member include: Creative Enterprise A series of online discussions […]

We were delighted to work with the World Wildlife Fund, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the National Trust to support the People’s Plan for Nature – the biggest ever conversation about the future of nature in the UK.

Here and Now was a national and local celebration of culture within communities. 40 new projects took place in and around 40 arts centres across the country throughout 2020, led by artists and co-created with local people.

Future Arts Centres’ Global-Vision project set out to explore how arts centres could work internationally, to find ways of working that retained our connections to our local communities whilst at the same time, benefited from international ideas, resources and networks.

In 2017, Future Arts Centres was awarded £90k from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to support the founding partners to explore […]

National Members’ Meetings take place three times a year and are an informal, discursive opportunity for leaders of arts centres […]

Championing the role of arts centres in the wider social and cultural landscape is a key priority for Future Arts Centres.