If you’re an artist, freelancer, or independent creative, this network can help you find organisations that support your career, working conditions, wellbeing, and development.

You might want to look for organisations that offer:

• Training, mentoring, or professional development

• Advice on access, inclusion, or care responsibilities

• Freelance advocacy and policy work

• Networks and peer support

• Sector insight, research, and guidance
  
  

How to use the site

• Start with the A–Z listings to browse organisations by name

• Use the descriptions and “Who it’s for” sections to see who each organisation supports

• Look for organisations working in your artform, region, or area of practice (e.g. access, touring, marketing, freelancing)
  
  

Many sector support organisations don’t charge to access core resources, while others offer membership, programmes, or paid services depending on what you need.

If you work for, lead, or govern an arts or cultural organisation, this network helps you find organisations that support organisational development and sustainability, not artistic programming itself.

You’ll find support relating to:

• Leadership, governance, and workforce development

• Marketing, audiences, and engagement

• Access, inclusion, and environmental responsibility

• Touring, festivals, and place-based work

• Freelance policies and fair working practices

• Research, data, and sector intelligence
  
  

How to use the site

• Use the map to find national, regional, or place-based support

• Browse by type of support (e.g. training, advocacy, networks)

• Read the listings to understand how to access support (membership, programmes, consultancy, open resources)
  
  

Many Sector Support organisations exist specifically to support delivery organisations like yours, even if they don’t produce work themselves.

This network provides a view of the infrastructure that underpins cultural life in the UK.

Sector support organisations:

• Build capacity across thousands of artists and organisations

• Develop skills, leadership, and resilience

• Advance equity, access, and inclusion

• Support innovation and long-term sustainability

• Act as trusted intermediaries between policy, funding, and practice
  
  

How to use the site

• Use the listings to understand the range and diversity of sector support roles

• Explore how organisations operate nationally, regionally, and locally

• Identify who is working in specialist areas such as access, rural touring, music education, exhibitions, freelancing, or environmental sustainability
  
  

This site can support:

• Better-informed policy and funding decisions

• Clearer understanding of sector infrastructure

• Recognition of support organisations as essential contributors to cultural outcomes

Sector support organisations are:

• Organisations that support artists, freelancers, and cultural organisations

• Providers of training, research, advocacy, guidance, and infrastructure

• Networks and knowledge hubs

• Often working behind the scenes to strengthen the whole sector

Sector support organisations are not:

• Ticketing platforms

• Event listings or “what’s on” guides

• Producers or presenters of public-facing work (in most cases)

Some organisations listed here do also deliver artistic programmes, but their primary role is to enable and support others, rather than to present work directly to audiences.

Culture doesn’t only exist on stages, in galleries, or at festivals.
It also exists in:

• Skills development

• Care and inclusion

• Policy and advocacy

• Networks, relationships, and shared learning

This network exists to make that support visible, connected, and accessible, so the cultural sector can thrive sustainably and equitably.