Cultural investment is the quickest and most underused lever for levelling up the North today, says Katy Shaw.
The new Case of Culture report, published All Party Parliamentary Group for Northern Culture, looks at how this sector can play a key role in delivering post-Covid priorities as an enabler to levelling up.
The report argues that now is the ideal time for a new place-based recovery strategy – one that mobilises culture, co-creation and collaboration to reframe the North as a site of creative production fit for the 21st century.
Our culture and creative industries make a greater contribution to the UK economy than to that of any comparable nation, and the creative industries sector is larger (in terms of GVA) than the life sciences, automotive, aerospace and oil and gas sectors combined.
During the pandemic, Covid recovery funding ensured that many cultural organisations survived the pandemic, and are now stable and able to think about how they can thrive in the years ahead.
A dramatic shift in thinking is required if we are to rebuild, rebalance and recover the North’s rich cultural capital...Keep reading on Yorkshire Post.
The new Case of Culture report, published All Party Parliamentary Group for Northern Culture, looks at how this sector can play a key role in delivering post-Covid priorities as an enabler to levelling up.
The report argues that now is the ideal time for a new place-based recovery strategy – one that mobilises culture, co-creation and collaboration to reframe the North as a site of creative production fit for the 21st century.
Our culture and creative industries make a greater contribution to the UK economy than to that of any comparable nation, and the creative industries sector is larger (in terms of GVA) than the life sciences, automotive, aerospace and oil and gas sectors combined.
During the pandemic, Covid recovery funding ensured that many cultural organisations survived the pandemic, and are now stable and able to think about how they can thrive in the years ahead.
A dramatic shift in thinking is required if we are to rebuild, rebalance and recover the North’s rich cultural capital...Keep reading on Yorkshire Post.