Year in Review: 2025
Our 'Resources' hub is the ideal place to browse a range of toolkits, case studies and videos on a variety of different topics from our Place-based and Creative Ageing Peer Learning programmes.
Our resources are catergorised by theme making it easy to narrow down your search.
Scroll down to take a look at some of the highlights from 2025...
Advocacy Skills
Would you like to develop your advocacy skills? Are you keen to develop an advocacy strategy but need some helpful tips on where to start?
Take a look at the resources from our ‘Introduction to Advocacy and Key Steps to Developing an Advocacy Strategy’, ‘Developing Advocacy Skills’ and 'How to Activate Creative Citizens' sessions.
Joint Cultural Needs Assessment
Can up on our session with Jonothan Neelands and Mark Scott on how to utilise the updated Joint Cultural Needs Assessment Guidelines.
Discover how the guidelines can help you align cultural strategies with local priorities to address urgent place-based needs.
Learning from Failure
Learning from failure isn’t always easy. Discover how you can learn and evolve following on from failure in our session with Failspace.
Take a look at our panel discussion with City of Culture applicants and discover how their unsuccessful bids led to their development of new paths, partnerships and programmes.
The session includes contributions from County Durham, Medway, Southampton and Stoke.
An introduction to Devolution
Catch up on our introductory session on the topic of devolution.
Discover more about the impact of devolution across the country and the implications of the English Devolution White Paper for Strategic Authorities and Local Government.
Development of Cultural Compacts
Arts Council England recently commissioned a review of the development of Cultural Compacts over the last five years.
In the recording, discover more about place-based strategy, delve into the report’s findings, and hear case studies from current Cultural Compacts.
Creative Care
Take a look at our inaugural session of the Creative Ageing Peer Learning Programme.
The session explored how to engage older people living in care in meaningful creative opportunities, with updates from NAPA, Belong Villages, Magic Me and Upswing.