Arts & Business

Arts & Business aspires to be the world’s most successful and widespread creative network. It helps business people support the arts and the arts inspire business people, because good business and great art together create a richer society. For thirty two years, Arts & Business has brought the commercial and cultural worlds together to deliver an unrivalled range of programmes, services and expertise to both sectors.

Arts & Business provides bespoke consultancy services and brokerage to businesses that bring the unique experience of the arts into a business context. It helps deliver creative solutions that can bring innovation and new ways of thinking to address a broad range of issues facing many businesses today. Arts & Business is also an advocate for the arts, identifying and fostering emerging cultural talent and providing the necessary platform and support for the arts to work effectively with business. It ensures that a broad range of arts organisations are able to explore new sources of income and ways of engaging with the commercial sector.

At the heart of its work is a belief that the passion and acumen of the private sector can increase access to the excellence of the arts. The power and impact of the arts is something that is not just of value to the creative industries, but to UK companies more broadly. Recent Arts & Business figures reveal that UK private investment in culture has reached record levels, almost £600 million. It strives for a symbiotic funding system, incorporating strategic public and private investment, which excellence in culture necessitates.

Arts & Business has always been a pioneer in its field of connecting culture and commerce from launching the first matching investment scheme for the arts to offering the perfect arts board placement for business leaders.