Future Arts Centres

Our Activities

Future Arts Centres is a network enabling peer-support for leaders of UK arts centres.

We also deliver a range of consultancy, advocacy, major projects and ongoing activities to further develop the work of arts centres or to share expertise beyond the sector.

Our Freedom: Then and Now

Our Freedom: Then and Now is a new UK-wide, locally-led arts and creative programme which will produce 60 new pieces of […]

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Partners: Dave Moutrey and University of Manchester

Future Arts Centres is pleased to be working with Dave Moutrey and the University of Manchester on an exciting […]

Equipping arts centres for evaluation

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

Most Significant Change

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

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Research

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

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Working with Boards

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

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Action Research Groups

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

Creative enterprise

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

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Upcoming dates

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

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.

Global-Vision

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.