Community Arts & Culture Recruitment

Arts and culture can play a powerful role in how people connect with each other and the places where they live. Community arts and cultural organisations create opportunities for creative activity, skill and talent development, broader access to culture and creative responses to local needs and ambitions.

Their work is often built through relationships with communities, artists, schools, local authorities, funders and other partners. Leaders need to sustain those relationships while securing income, developing programmes and creating organisations where participation is meaningful, and the people they work with have a voice in what happens next.

Place is increasingly part of this work, as arts centres, cultural partnerships and grassroots organisations can contribute to local identity, skills, regeneration and the vitality of towns and cities. Leadership in these settings requires understanding the communities around an organisation, alongside the ability to build partnerships across culture, education, public services and local economies.

We work with you to understand your organisation’s purpose, who participates in its work and how programmes, partnerships and funding come together. This helps us identify which experience matters for the appointment, including where knowledge of community arts, creative learning or cultural development is essential and where leadership from elsewhere could bring a useful perspective.

Our experience across arts and culture sits alongside years of recruiting for charities, education and socially focused organisations. We draw on both when searching for leaders who can work across creative practice and social purpose, while giving candidates a clear picture of the communities, partnerships and ambitions at the heart of the opportunity.