Policy paper

Annex 7: Arts Council England (ACE) Review - Contributors to the Review

Updated 26 March 2026

This was published under the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

Applies to England

This list is accurate to the best of our knowledge. These organisations were all invited to provide evidence through a variety of means. This, however, does not mean all attended and provided evidence.

Participating organisations

• 2 funky arts
• 20 stories high
• 24 Hope Street
• ACC Liverpool
• Acosta Dance Foundation
• Africa Oye Limite
• Afrocats
• Akram Khan Company
• All Party Parliamentary Jazz Group
• Ambassador for Creative Industries
• Art Fund
• Art in Libraries
• Art in Liverpool C.I.C.
• Artichoke Trust
• Artreach
• Arts Alive
• Arts Council Wales
• Arts for Impact
• Arts Groupie
• Asian Arts Agency
• Association of British Orchestras
• Association of Leading Visitor Attractions
• Association of Senior Children’s and Education Librarians
• ATG Entertainment
• ATG Productions
• Attenborough Arts centre
• Backlit
• Ballet Black
• Band on the Wall
• Barnsley Council
• Barrowful
• Battersea Arts Centre
• Beacon Collaborative
• Beamish
• Bickerton Graeae Theatre
• Birmingham City Councillor
• Birmingham Hippodrome
• Birmingham Libraries
• Birmingham Literature Festival
• Birmingham Museums
• Birmingham Museums Trust
• Birmingham Opera
• Birmingham Repertory Theatre
• Birmingham Royal Ballet
• Birmingham Symphony orchestra
• Black Girls Bookshelf
• Blackpool Grand Theatre
• Bloomin Buds
• Bolton Council
• Bolton Lads & Girls Club
• Bolton Music Services
• Bolton and Buxton Opera House
• Booksellers Association
• BookTrust
• Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
• Boy Blue London
• Bradford 2025
• Bradford African Festival of Arts
• Bradford Arts Centre
• Bradford Asian Heritage Festival
• Bradford College
• Bradford Council
• Bradford Eid Festival
• Bradford LEAP (consortium)
• Bradford Literature Festival
• Bradford Museums & Galleries
• Bradford Music Hub
• Bradford Producing Hub
• Bradford Theatres
• Bristol City Council
• British Film Institute
• British Future
• British Library
• British Screen Forum
• Britten Sinfonia
• Broadway
• Cameron Mackintosh Limited
• Campaign for the Arts
• Candoco
• Canterbury City Council
• Cecil Green Arts
• Chaos Arts CIC & Leap Dance Festival
• Charleston
• Chartered Institute of Fundraising’s Cultural Sector Network
• Children’s Discovery Centre East London
• Chromatica Orchestra
• CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)
• Citizens for Culture
• City Arts
• Civic Museums Network
• Clore Duffield Foundation
• Collective Encounters
• Collusion
• Commonwealth Theatre
• Community Arts North West
• Community Foundation North East
• Company Chameleon
• Company Hofesh Shechter
• Compass Dance
• Complicite
• Contemporary Visual Arts Network England
• Cornwall Council
• Cornwall Museum
• Craic™
• Create Central
• Creative Arts East
• Creative Barking & Dagenham
• Creative Black Country
• Creative East
• Creative Industries Council
• Creative Kernow
• Creative Lives
• Creative Policy and Evidence Centre
• Creative Scotland
• Creative Scotland Review
• Creative UK
• Creswell Crags
• CRIPtic Arts
• Cultural Capital Partners
• Cultural Voice Forum
• Culture Health & Wellbeing Alliance
• Culture House Sunderland
• Culture Squared CIC
• Culture Start Manager
• Curious Directive
• Curious Minds
• Curve
• DaDaFest
• Daily Life Ltd
• Dance City
• Dance East
• Darbar Arts Culture Heritage Trust
• Dare to Diva
• Dash Arts
• De Montfort University
• De Montfort University - Talent 25
• Dead Ink Books / Cinder House Publishing
• Derby Museums Trust
• Design & Artists Copyright Society
• Diverse City
• Donmar Warehouse
• dot-art
• Down to Earth
• Drake Music
• Durham LA and Strategic Authority
• Early Doors Club
• East Durham Trust
• East Midlands Carnival Arts Network (EMCAAN)
• Edible East
• Education Endowment Foundation
• Eleanor Lloyd Productions
• Empire Theatre
• English Folk, Dance and Song Society
• English National Ballet
• English National Opera
• English Touring Opera
• Equity
• Essex Cultural Diversity Project
• Ex Cathedra
• Fabric
• FACT
• Falmouth University
• Faya Kunu
• Fiery Angel Productions
• Figurative.org
• Film and Video Umbrella
• First Light Festival Lowestoft
• Flux Rotherham
• Freedom Foundation
• Freedom in the Arts
• Freelancers Make Theatre Work
• Frozen Light Theatre
• Fuel
• Future Creators
• Garsington Opera
• Generator
• Gloucester City Council
• Gloucester Guildhall
• Glyndebourne
• Gorilla Circus
• Greater London Authority
• Greenwich Leisure Limited Literary Foundation
• Greenwich+Docklands Festivals (Festival.org)
• Grimm & C0
• GroundWork Gallery
• hAb
• Hall for Cornwall
• Hampshire Cultural Trust
• Hay Festival
• Heads Together Productions Limited
• Heart of Glass
• High Rise Entertainment CIC
• Historic England
• Historic Royal Palaces
• Hive Bradford
• Hocus Pocus Theatre
• Homotopia Limited
• Hope Mill Theatre
• Horniman Museum and Gardens
• Hull Truck Theatre
• Ikon Gallery
• ILUVLIVE
• Impermanence Dance
• Impressions gallery
• Index on Censorship
• Inspirate
• Inspire
• Jean Abreu Dance
• Jewish Museum Bolton
• Jodi Myers
• Julie’s Bicycle
• JW3
• Keighley Asian Women and Girls Association
• Keighley Creative
• Kiln Theatre
• King’s Lynn Festival
• Knowsley Arts
• Leeds City Museum
• Leeds Museums and Galleries
• Leeds Road Festival
• Leicester Caribbean Carnival
• Leicester City Council
• Leicester Museums
• Libraries Connected
• Libraries Unlimited South West
• Literati Arts
• Little Lion Entertainment
• LIVE
• Liverpool & Merseyside Theatres Trust Ltd
• Liverpool Arab Arts Festival
• Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art Ltd
• Liverpool City Council
• Liverpool Lighthouse
• Liverpool Museums
• Liverpool Royal Court
• Local Government Association
• London City Hall
• London Museum
• London Philharmonic Orchestra
• London Sinfonietta
• London Symphony Orchestra
• Make CIC
• Make/Shift
• Making Music
• Manchester Camerata
• Manchester City Council
• Manchester City of Literature
• Manchester Collective
• Manchester Public Libraries
• Martin Prendergast Communications
• Mc7
• Melting Pot Productions
• Member of RECWA
• Midlands Arts Centre
• Migrants in Theatre
• Milap Festival Trust
• Mind The Gap
• Mishmash Productions
• Motionhouse
• Movema
• Multistory
• Museums North East
• Music Mark
• Music Venue Trust
• Musical Keys
• National Archives
• National Army Museum
• National Centre for Writing
• National Gallery
• National Literacy Trust
• National Museums Liverpool
• National Opera Studio
• National Portrait Gallery
• National Theatre
• Neal Street productions
• Neurodiverse Friends of Thanet
• New Art Exchange
• New Writing North
• Newcastle Theatre Royal
• No More Nowt
• NoFit State Community Circus
• Nonsuch Studios
• Norfolk / Suffolk Cultural Board
• Norfolk and Norwich Festival
• Norfolk and Suffolk Self - employed Cultural Workers
• Norfolk Library and Information Service
• Norfolk Museum Service
• North East Cultural Freelancers
• North Yorkshire Libraries
• Northern Ballet
• Norton Priory Museum Trust Limited
• Norwich Puppet Theatre
• Nottingham Asian Arts Council
• Nottingham Black Archive
• Nottingham Contemporary
• Nottingham Playhouse
• Nupar arts
• Octagon Theatre
• Odd Arts
• Oglesby Charitable Trust
• Old Vic Theatre
• One Dance UK
• One Latin Culture Ltd
• Opal22 Arts
• Open Eye Gallery
• OpenUp Music
• Opera North Limited
• OperaUpClose
• Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
• Outdoor Arts
• Pagoda Arts
• Pagrav Dance Company
• Paraorchestra
• Patrick Gracey Productions
• Paul Hamlyn Foundation
• Pavilion Dance South West
• Pegasus Opera Company
• People Dancing
• People United
• Phizzical
• Phoenix
• Poetry Society
• Primary
• Public Digital
• Rambert
• Ramps on the Moon
• Reading Borough Council
• Redruth Revival
• Regents Park Open Air Theatre
• Rogue Artists’ Studios CIC
• Roundhouse
• Royal Academy of Arts
• Royal Air Force Museum
• Royal Albert Hall
• Royal Ballet and Opera
• Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
• Royal Court Liverpool Trust
• Royal Exchange Theatre
• Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
• Royal Museums Greenwich
• Royal Opera House
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• Royal Philharmonic Society Awards
• Royal Shakespeare Company
• ROYO Theatre
• Rule of Three
• Sadler’s Wells
• Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
• Screen South
• Second Collection Writing Time and Outreach
• Seeta Patel Dance
• Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage
• Severn Arts
• Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
• Shakespeare North Playhouse
• Shakespeare’s Globe
• Sheffield Theatres
• Shobana Jeyasingh Dance
• Sid Motion Gallery
• Sinfonietta Productions Limited
• Sir John Soane’s Museum
• Slung Low
• Soho Theatre Walthamstow
• Sole Rebel
• Society of Independent Theatres
• SOLT UK / UK Theatre
• Somerset Council
• Sonia Friedman Productions
• SoundCity
• Soundroots
• Soundworld
• Southbank Centre
• Spark Arts for Children
• Spike Island Artspace Ltd
• Spitalfields Festival Ltd.
• Stockton International Riverside Festival
• StopGap
• Streetwise Opera
• St George’s Bristol
• Suffolk Libraries
• Sunderland City Council
• Sunderland Culture
• Sunderland Empire Theatre Trust
• Sunderland Music, Arts and Culture Trust
• Super Slow Way
• Surrey County Council
• Swirl Education
• Take 1 Studios
• Tara Arts
• TATE
• Tate Liverpool
• The AHRC Everyday Creativity Research Network
• The Albany
• The Arts Development Company
• The Atkinson
• The Audience Agency
• The Black-E
• The Bluecoat
• The Bowes Museum
• The Box (Plymouth City Council)
• The British Academy
• The Comedy Trust
• The Comics Cultural Impact Collective
• The Dukes
• The Forum
• The Garage Trust
• The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
• The Ladder in Redruth
• The Leighton Group
• The Lowry Centre Trust
• The Race Equality Centre
• The Reader Gallery
• The Reading Agency
• The Society of Authors
• The Space
• The Touring Network Chairs Group
• The Windows Project
• The Writers Guild
• The Yard theatre
• The Young Musicians Project
• Theatres Trust
• Theatre in the Mill
• Theatre Royal Norwich
• Theatre Royal Plymouth
• Theatre-Rites
• Theatre503
• Thickskin Theatre
• tiata fahodzi
• TIN Arts
• Tmesis Theatre
• Tomorrow’s Warriors
• Tourettes Hero
• Trafalgar Entertainment
• Trial and Error Studio
• Tribe Arts
• TripleC
• Tullie Museum
• Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
• Turf Projects
• Turner Sims
• Uchenna Dance
• UK South Asian Digital Archive
• Unicorn Theatre
• United Arts Project
• Unity Theatre
• Universities UK
• University of Cambridge Museums
• University of Kent, Centre for Philanthropy
• University of Oxford Museums
• University of Sunderland
• University of the Arts London
• UPSWING
• V&A
• Venture Arts
• Wakefield Council
• Walk the Plank
• Warwick Arts Centre
• Watershed Arts Trust Ltd
• Watts Gallery
• We are Unlimited
• We Make Culture
• Welsh National Opera
• West Midlands Combined Authority
• West Sussex County Council
• West Yorkshire Combined Authority
• Westacre Theatre
• Wigmore Hall
• Wimbledon Book Festival
• Without Walls
• Wolverhampton Arts Centre
• Wonder Arts
• Work up
• World Fringe
• Writing East Midlands
• Writing on the Wall
• Writing West Midlands
• Yewande 103
• York Museums Trust
• Yorkshire Dance
• Young Vic

Individuals consulted

In addition to these organisations, the review team engaged with individuals from the following professions:

• Actors
• Archivists
• Arts Administrator
• Arts Council Officials
• Arts Leaders
• Authors
• Broadcasting executive
• Composers
• Conceptual Artists
• Conductors
• Cultural Thinkers
• Curators
• Dancers
• Directors
• Economists
• Journalists
• Members of Parliament
• Members of the House of Lords
• Musicians
• Painters
• Playwrights
• Poets
• Policy makers
• Producers
• Projection Artists
• Screenwriters
• Sculptors
• Songwriters
• Theatre makers
• Visual Artists
• Writers
• Young Artists

Geographic distribution

Figure 1: Spread of those who contributed to the review.