Culture Central offers a collective statement to organisations, workforce, communities, stakeholders and supporters with regard to uncertainty around arts, culture and creativity in Birmingham.

This year, Culture Central joins forces with More than a Moment on October 20th, presenting the Beautiful Futures Summit — an intersectional critical dialogue for the sector.

Culture Central and More than a Moment have been working together to curate a week of radical listening sessions platforming the voices of marginalised creatives and culture sector professionals.

After the success of our initial Chairs forum in Coventry in April 2023, we will be hosting three more in 2023-24.

The Chairs forum is a confidential regular meeting for those in voluntary governance positions in cultural organisations in the West Midlands with the goal of working collectively on challenges and opportunities facing boards.

Culture Central x people make it work x Collective is a leadership programme for those traditionally excluded from senior roles in the cultural sector.

This is an invitation for you to join us to explore and support how we make change for ourselves, our peers, the cultural sector and the people and places of the West Midlands.

As part of the Culture Volunteer project, we are launching the Culture Volunteer Knowledge Sharing Network.

Culture Volunteer West Midlands (a regional volunteering programme for volunteers in the arts and culture sector) are recruiting 16 people across the region, to be trained as Volunteer Access champions.

Culture Central is working in partnership with Birmingham Museums Trust, Creative Black Country, Stoke Creates and Open Theatre to deliver regional and place-based, volunteering and development opportunities.

We wanted to understand more about the actual day-to-day experiences of freelancers working in the West Midlands, and we’ve partnered with the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick to ask freelancers ‘What do you do all day’?

Culture Central have today launched a brand new membership scheme, which gives everyone working in arts and culture in the West Midlands, an opportunity to be part of the collective voice of the cultural sector in the region, and enjoy a range of member benefits.

Whether you would like to join as an Individual or an Organisation, there is a membership option for everyone.

Over 160 community organisations, including Culture Central, are set to support 7,800 new volunteering opportunities over the next two years, as the Government has confirmed the beneficiaries of a £4.6 million fund that will level up access to the benefits of volunteering across the country.

Culture Central, Birmingham 2022, Coventry City of Culture, and the West Midlands Combined Authority  recently invited strategic leaders and partners from across the region to discuss how the findings from the recent West Midlands Cultural Sector Research Project impact on the future of creativity and culture in the West Midlands.

As lockdown restrictions once again begin to shift in England, we wanted to take some time to reflect on what we have achieved so far as a collective, and think about what we’ve learnt about working together.