Arts Council England is the national development agency for creativity and culture. Our vision, set out in our strategy Let’s Create, is that by 2030, we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish, and where every one of us has access to a remarkable range of high-quality cultural experiences. Between 2023 and 2026 we will have invested over £467million of public money from Government, alongside an estimated £250 million each year from The National Lottery, to help ensure that people in every part of the country have access to culture and creativity in the places where they live. Visit our website to learn more about our work. 

The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is the lead funding and development agency for the Arts providing support to arts projects throughout the region, through its Treasury and The National Lottery funds.  Arts Council funding enables artists and arts organisations to increase access to the arts across society and deliver great art that is within everyone’s reach. 

To date, National Lottery players have helped to raise £52 billion for Good Causes, with more than 670,000 projects funded since 1994 . With hundreds of lottery grants in every postcode district and £32 million raised each week for Good Causes, most people will have benefited from a National Lottery-funded project. https://artscouncil-ni.org/ 

The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide. We do this through our work in arts and culture, education and the English language. We work with people in over 200 countries and territories and are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2022–23 we reached 600 million people. www.britishcouncil.org/ 

Creative Scotland is the public body that supports culture and creativity across all parts of Scotland, distributing funding provided by the Scottish Government and The National Lottery. Further information at creativescotland.com. Follow Creative Scotland on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. 

Fonds Soziokultur is one of six Federal Culture Fonds in Germany and is supporting participative art projects of all artistic kinds since 1988. The Fonds Soziokultur funds projects which act as role models for other sociocultural initiatives and institutions. The aim of socioculture is to engage with and expand both the aesthetic and communicative as well as also the social needs and capabilities of all citizens. 

In this context, objectives are adoption of cultural and artistic forms of expression and to encourage and empower active co-creation in social and cultural life. The regular budgetary resources of the Fonds Soziokultur are provided by the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media). www.fonds-soziokultur.de 

The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach. It promotes knowledge of the German language abroad, fosters international cultural exchange and conveys an image of contemporary Germany with 154 locations in 100 countries worldwide. Engaging an audience interested in culture, language and education, the Goethe-Institut London is located on Exhibition Road, offering a broad variety of scope and spaces with nearby access to world-class institutions. www.goethe.de/uk 

The Arts Council of Wales is the official public body for funding and developing the arts in Wales. Every day, people across Wales are enjoying and taking part in the arts. We help to support and grow this activity. We do this by using public funds from the Welsh Government and by sharing the money we receive as a good cause from the National Lottery. By managing and investing these funds, the Arts Council contributes to people’s quality of life and to the cultural, social and economic wellbeing of Wales. More information about us and the work we do may be found on our website https://arts.wales/ 

Wales Arts International is the in-house international agency of the Arts Council of Wales, the public body responsible for funding and developing the arts in Wales. They provide advice and support to artists and arts organisations from Wales who work internationally and are a contact point for international artists organisations and agencies working in or connecting with Wales. https://wai.org.uk/