Join our next WMCRU session with Rebecca Davies, Co-Director and co-founder of The Portland Inn Project CIC (PIP) based in Stoke on Trent.
PIP is a creative arts organisation with an aim to achieve community cohesion, economic, social and cultural development by involving the community in the development of a pioneering community space, cultural hub and social enterprise. This CRU session will offer the opportunity to deep dive into the values and principles, practice and partnerships of an organisation cited as an exemplar project of people led change.
Getting involved
These meetings take place online at 9:30-10:30 am on the second Tuesday of every month. If you would like to join the learning sessions, please sign up using the form linked below or email info@culturecentral.co.uk.
We aim to facilitate and accommodate all accessibility needs. Please do let us know below if you have any specific questions, needs or comments and we will do our best to meet them.
About The Portland Inn Project (PIP)
The Portland Inn Project CIC (PIP) is a creative arts organisation which aadvocates for people-led change, and champions the importance of art in leading that change, in cooperation with public services. Currently it works from the PIPPIN – a temporary space where the team design and deliver a wide ranging programme of activity. Founded by two artists, Anna Francis & Rebecca Davies, in a residential area of Stoke on Trent, PIP works in collaboration with other artists, arts organisations, designers, service providers and residents to improve the area.
PIP’s deeply embedded, progressive approach has helped them deliver a collaborative architectural plan and raise significant funding for a pioneering cultural space in the neighbourhood, the first of its kind in the city. Renovation began in October 2023. In 2022, PIP became Arts Council NPO.
About WMCRU
Set up during COVID, our regular West Midlands Culture Response Unit (WMCRU) meetings were a vital lifeline for the sector in connecting, sharing and getting practical information and advice. WMCRU has continued to be a useful space for organisations and individuals that Culture Central continues to support as a collective and collaborative space for all those that are interested in the cultural ecology of the region. In 2024-25, WMCRU meetings will explore key strategic challenges and opportunities that affect the sector and the region.