Key takeaways from the Cities Forum 2025
Last month, Key Cities held its inaugural Cities Forum at the University of Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent, marking the beginning of a series of events aimed at fostering greater collaboration between the public and private sectors, and welcoming a new era of collaboration. The event kicked off with several introductions from the Chief Executive at Stoke-on-Trent […]
Secure your place at the Cities Forum 2025!
With the first Cities Forum by Key Cities only weeks away, don’t miss the chance to register and secure your place. Join national government, local leaders and the private sector in Stoke-on-Trent to discuss the role of public-private partnerships in housing delivery, culture-led regeneration, reaching net zero, and unlocking skills and innovation in the UK. […]
Cities Forum 2025
As the voice of urban UK, Key Cities is bringing together city leaders, officers, public bodies, investors, developers, and consultants to explore new ways of partnering to deliver more homes, meet net zero targets, and revive the UK economy. In 2024, Key Cities released a manifesto for Government, in response to the most pressing challenges […]
Culture and Place in Britain – Why a healthy cultural offer and a community’s economic wellbeing go hand in hand
This aspect often gets lost, but a new Key Cities report, Culture and Place in Britain, highlights the correlation between low cultural engagement and deprivation, and calls for a more inclusive approach to stimulating our economies. By looking at what culture means to Key Cities’ 27 member cities and beyond, and how this translates into […]
Culture and Place in Britain
The report recommends that the Government invest £100m in the development of creative industries microclusters outside the existing Creative Clusters. It proposes putting culture at the heart of a renewed drive for hyperlocal devolution to empower communities and drive local growth. Other recommendations focus on promoting local Cultural Compacts, improved monitoring and data collection to […]
City leaders urge funding for “creative microclusters” to combine growth with levelling up
Key Cities – the national network representing 27 urban centres across the UK – has today published a new report calling for a more inclusive approach to stimulating the economy and highlighting a link between low cultural engagement and deprivation. Culture and Place in Britain, a new report produced by Key Cities in partnership with […]
Key Cities welcomes ACE NPO announcement
Arts Council England’s latest funding announcement will enable creativity and culture to spread to towns and cities across the country. The investment programme represents an increase in funding for almost 60% of Key Cities’ members, with 16 cities seeing a rise in the number of NPOs supported. This is a great step forward in levelling […]
Cultural Cities Enquiry Case Studies
Bradford is UK City of Culture 2025
Congratulations are due to Bradford for a very exciting winning bid, and commiserations to Key Cities Southampton and Wrexham, and also County Durham, the other shortlisted contenders, who for the first time also receive some funding to take forward elements of their proposals. The winner was approved by Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries based on independent […]
Cultural Cities Recovery
