What We Do
Sheffield Culture Consortium develops projects which bring additional resources into the city, and encourages collaboration within the sector.
The Covid-19 Pandemic has sharpened our awareness of structural racism and climate crisis. We will shape future projects with these priorities at the forefront.
Black lives matter, and the diversity of Sheffield is precious. We need to change as organisations and as an ecology of city arts to become more diverse, to act in anti-racist ways, and to change structural inequalities. We recognise there is a long way to go, but we will work harder to learn, reach out, employ, promote, celebrate, campaign, change.
Member organisations are building on their own Equality, Diversity and Inclusion plans, and we are also developing an EDI action plan for Consortium activities.
What we are
- A voluntary working group of cultural partners, now constituted as a Limited Company
- Sheffield’s larger cultural organisations, with capacity to work beyond our own organisations; plus some artform members
- A promoter of specific projects, usually funded by Arts Council England, with city-wide benefit.
- A network with a good track record with Arts Council England, and the ability to bring additional project funding into the city.
- Inspired by Sheffield as a City of Makers.
What we are not
- A general funding body. The Consortium has no funds of its own, beyond the specific project funding it applies for.
- Arbiters of cultural taste; though we aim to promote good operating practice in our organisations and projects.
- A representative body, though we have included as many art forms as possible. All members have the capacity to work beyond their own organisation, for city benefit.
- Well resourced! A part-time council officer post supports all our work and covers basic operating costs for the Consortium.
This is what the Consortium is for now, but things will change in future!
