Post-Covid plan sees culture lead Brighton’s recovery

A plan for Brighton and Hove to become the best place in the country to start up or scale up a cultural business or be a successful creative freelancer is being presented to councillors in the city. Local leaders from the arts and creative industries have drawn up a recovery plan to become the leading creative hub on the south coast.

Cancelling events including Pride and the Brighton Festival and Fringe is thought to have cost Brighton and Hove £100m in lost revenues, and half of the estimated 16,000 creative jobs in the the city are thought to be at risk.