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Arts for Us All: Putting culture and creativity at the heart of national renewal

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The Fabian Society’s Arts and Creative Industries unit was set up in November 2023 to develop bold new ideas for culture policy inspired by progressive values. This pamphlet draws together some of the unit’s most innovative and influential ideas, from a ‘new deal’ for libraries to a progressive tourism charge.

The proposals, including several that helped inform Labour’s Sector Plan for the Arts and the Creative Industries and its election manifesto, are shaped by the belief that the arts have an essential role to play in the new government’s project of national renewal and in the delivery of its five core missions. Along with health, education and technology, the authors argue, the arts are one of the cornerstones of a fair and flourishing society and an open, dynamic and innovative nation – not to mention remarkably powerful engines of economic growth and regeneration, transforming the everyday lives and fortunes of places and people.

Download the pamphlet here, or find a mobile-friendly version here.

Correction: p35 was amended at 16:35 on 18 September to fix an error. The number of French cultural projects supported was 12,000, not 1,200.

Alison Cole

Alison Cole is director of the arts and creative industries policy unit at the Fabian Society. She was previously editor of The Art Newspaper

Nathan Lloyd

Nathan Lloyd is senior researcher in the Fabian Society's Arts and Creative Industries Policy Unit. He previously worked as a political researcher at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and co-authored reports across various policy areas.

@nathlloyd

Flora Dodd

Flora Dodd is a researcher in the Fabian Society's Arts and Creative Industries Policy Unit. She previously worked in the London Symphony Orchestra’s education department, LSO Discovery, running music education projects in east London.

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