The Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UK Research and Innovation, has announced new funding for the creation of a collaborative Centre for Cultural Value, the first of its kind in the UK.
The term ‘cultural value’ includes all the societal benefits that arts and culture can bring including impact on the economy, on communities and cities, and impact on health and wellbeing.
The aim of the Centre for Cultural Value will be to advance understanding of the value of arts and culture in the UK and abroad. It will present how this value is being captured and encourage organisations to act on that knowledge. As such, the Centre will function as a custodian and communicator of cultural value in all its guises; it will synthesise existing research and bring together organisations and sectors with an interest in using evidence about cultural value in their work.