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UN Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development

The UN year focuses on the critical role of the creative economy in promoting innovation, inclusive economic growth, and opportunity for all. Read on to find out more on why and how we’re celebrating it.

Introducing: Creative Communities Learning Lab

NEW: Creative Hub Leader's Toolkit

AMPLIFY Turns Up The Volume

Our response to Covid- 19

What you can expect from British Council Arts

Making Space 

Making Space is a series of essays commissioned in collaboration with the Barbican. The essays undertake a body of research into how arts organisations and cultural producers are seeking to become more responsive to an increasingly complex world

Explore our guide: New and Changing Dynamics

Edited by John Newbigin, New and Changing Dynamics looks at how the creative economy is evolving. International contributors build a picture of their innovative work.

The value of local context for creative businesses

Games storytelling

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Innovation flourishes when diverse perspectives, disciplines and skills meet. Our team supports people around the world to shape and share a creative and prosperous future. Read more »

Our themes

Creative enterprise

Creative enterprise

We’re helping to build sustainable businesses in the creative and cultural industries worldwide, sharing our knowledge and experience through skills workshops, mentoring and peer networks.

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Hubs and communities

Hubs and communities

In an ever-changing global landscape, we support spaces and communities where people can design, test, scale and launch imaginative and enterprising ideas together.

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Tech and interactive

Tech and interactive

We help people use technology as a creative medium, to explore new forms of storytelling and think about different ways of living and working, now and in the near future.

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