Congrats Floella Benjamin - so lovely to have worked with you in the UK Parliament on children’s media and the arts over the years via many of the platforms you support 🫶🏽

Starmer invites Labour mayors to develop 10-year local growth plans | The Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/tories…

I mean Kew Gardens in the month of May folks 👌🏽

Good to see our Metro Mayors recognising the important role that #arts #culture and #creativity plays in #health and #wellbeing of populations 🙌🏽

Proud Culture Commons has been supporting colleagues in Greater Manchester Combined Authority and NHS Greater Manchester get the Creative Health Strategy up and running!

Just a couple of days back from an enforced holiday and it’s been a busy one Culture Commons HQ!

Meetings, roundtables and events w/ MPs, Ministers and Official in House of Lords, insight gathering sessions with partners Art Fund and a panel w/ Tom Bloxham of Urban Splash

Director Trevor MacFarlane FRSA was invited to National Museum news parliamentary reception yesterday to talk w/ MPs Ministers & Officials about the important work museums are doing the length & breadth of the county

Good to see our clients, English Civic Museums Network & catch up w/ Museums Association

For the first time in many a year, I swerved the #LocalElection madness

Hopefully I’m forgiven…

Terrible policy

Terribly executed

Fiasco

We all understand it’s not for civil servants to defy ministerial direction

Thoughts with all those implementing under duress

Calling on all MPs to delay the process now with representations

#rwanda thetimes.co.uk/article/14561d…

Is #Venice now a #museum ?

Call for #evidence live!

Part of major four UK nations open #policy development programme looking into how further #devolution /increased #local #decision making will impact on the #creative #cultural & #heritage sectors

Lots of ways to contribute👇🏾

culturecommons.uk/post/call-for-…

Name a leading authority in #museums policy in the UK

Thanks!

drink responsibly etc etc etc but yes to this

Private schools have increased fees well above inflation for over a decade. They need not pass VAT increases on to parents

thetimes.co.uk/article/ff5637…

Insight Paper: how can #cultural #strategies support local cultural decision making?

Takeaways from a #Knowledge #Exchange session held as part of an open #policy development prog ‘the future of local cultural decision making’

#futurelocalculture

culturecommons.uk/post/insight-p…

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Are you allowed to use your tax payer funded parliamentary office as the location for advertising the sale of your own book for private profit, Liz?

IPSA Guardian politics BBC Politics Beth Rigby emily m ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Lewis Goodall Politics.co.uk

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Picked the right weekend to be in #Paris reading for meeting on Monday

26 degrees
Sun out
In full bloom

Do the ⁦Conservatives⁩ not want creative, inquisitive, adaptive, responsive, empathetic citizens then?

Creative arts courses at English universities face funding cut | University funding | The Guardian theguardian.com/education/2024…

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Thanks @Olivercoppard for coming to see Culture Commons #futurelocalculture programme partners

#devolution offers up so many opportunities to regional leaders, inc. for the #creative & #cultural life of communities

We’re unpacking how as part of 👉 culturecommons.uk/futureoflcdm