Policy paper

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

Published 16 December 2025

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 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
• 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.