ABCD Plan for Cultural Recovery

ABCD Evaluation Report Launched

The ABCD Cultural Recovery programme has been working with an external evaluator, Dr Roz Stewart-Hall, who has been looking at the aims and outcomes of the programme as a whole and of the individual strands. Her report on the work undertaken between March 2021 and June 2022 is now ready to be shared.

Read the Executive Summary here

Read the full evaluation report here

You can also read the report from the Review & Reset open space session that took place in June, that informed the plans for remainder of the ABCD programme through to the end of December 2022 here

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If you have any questions, contact ABCD Programme Manager, Polly Gifford, [email protected]

The disruption of the pandemic brought together over 100 creatives in Brighton & Hove to explore how arts & culture can be more inclusive, sustainable and collaborative in the City in the future.

It resulted in a recovery plan that has so far raised over £500k for the cultural sector in the City. Overseen by an independent group of people formed of a Governance Group and – between March 2021 and March 2022 –  a series of Working Groups, the plan aims to create paid work and opportunities for creative workers in the City, develop a more inclusive cultural offer and encourage partnership working to strengthen the creative sector in the long term.

Our partners include Brighton & Hove City Council, Arts Council England, Brilliant Brighton Business Improvement District, Visit Brighton the Pebble Trust and many funded arts organisations in the City.

The ABCD projects were also funded by the Welcome Back Fund, part of the European Regional Development Fund.

You can find recordings of all the ABCD online activity on our YourTube channel, including the Igniter Events Series, Creativity & Meanwhile Use sessions, Fundraising Strategy workshops and Brighton Creative Stories videos.