Creative Industries Federation
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| Formation | 24 November 2014 |
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Chair | Sir John Sorrell |
Chief Executive | John Kampfner |
Legal status | Non-profit organisation |
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The Creative Industries Federation is the independent representative body of the UK's arts, creative industries and cultural and creative education institutions. It represents more than 1000 member organisations and advocates for the infrastructure and investment required to retain the creative industries' position as the fastest growing sector of the UK economy.[1]
History
The Federation was the brianchild of Sir John Sorrell,[2][3] the designer and UK business ambassador, and a team of creative leaders including Sir Nicholas Serota of Tate, Sir Peter Bazalgette from Arts Council England, Amanda Nevill of the British Film Institute, Darren Henley of Classic FM, Tim Davie of BBC Worldwide, Sir Nicholas Hytner of the National Theatre and Caroline Rush of the British Fashion Council. Operations commenced in March 2014 before the organisation launched officially in November of the same year with a 500-person reception at Central Saint Martins. Its membership scheme commenced in January 2015.[3][4][5]
The Federation marked its first anniversary in January 2016 with a celebration at Television Centre, welcoming 650 guests and featuring an address by Chancellor George Osborne.
Membership
The Federation is funded through the membership scheme through which it represents more than 1000 organisations drawn from across sectors including advertising and media, architecture, broadcasting, crafts, creative education, creative tech, design, fashion, film, heritage, museums, galleries and libraries, music, performing arts, photography, publishing, video games and visual arts.
Members include FTSE 100 companies, multinationals, privately-owned businesses,SMEs, charities and non-profit organisations, trade associations, universities and further education colleges and individual practitioners.
Work
The Federation represents the interests of the UK creative industries to both the UK government and the general public. It advocates for the infrastructure and investment required for their future success, developing policy priorities through consultation with its members. Current focuses include the development of a skilled workforce through creative education in schools, access to finance through both public and private funding and the necessary infrastructure such as fast broadband and intellectual property rights protection.
The Federation also provides members’ benefits including research reports, a calendar of networking events and discounts.
Publications
Creative industries - routes to finance November 2015
Creative Diversity - September 2015
How public investment in arts contributes to growth in the creative industries - July 2015
Creative Education Agenda May 2015
Board and governance
Board
- Sir John Sorrell (Chair)
- Nigel Carrington, Vice Chancellor, University of the Arts London
- Melanie Eusebe, Chair and Co-Founder, Black British Business Awards
- Baroness Lane-Fox, philanthropist & public servant
- Lord Hall, Director General, BBC
- Nick Harvey
- Anna Jones, Chief Executive, Hearst Magazines UK
- Jude Kelly, Artistic Director, Southbank Centre
- Ian Livingstone CBE, games entrepreneur
- Janet Markwick, Chief Operations Officer, Grey EMEA
- Tessa Ross
- Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate
- Philip Watkins, Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (Company Secretary)
- Tom Weldon, Chief Executive, Penguin Random House UK
UK Advisory Council
The UK Advisory Council meets three times a year to inform the Federation's policy work. Advisors are selected from the Federation membership to give representation to all the arts and creative industries across the commercial, public and education sectors as well as broad representation of the country at large.
International Advisory Council
The International Advisory Council was launched in July 2016, featuring creative industries leaders from around the world. It identifies emergent opportunities for the sector and examples of innovation and best practice from around the world. These findings inform the Federation’s biannual international magazine, C.International.
References
- ↑ McElvoy, Anne (26 November 2014). "Anne McElvoy: Can Britain's creative industries finally get their act together?". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ↑ Williams, Christopher (23 Nov 2014). "Creative industries join forces to lobby Government". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- 1 2 Brown, Mark (1 January 2015). "Head of Creative Industries Federation fears 'dangerous' cost of austerity". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ↑ Wiseman, Andreas (24 November 2014). "UK creative industries launch federation". Broadcast (magazine). Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ↑ Montgomery, Angus (25 November 2014). "UK's "first independent membership organisation for the creative industries" launches". Design Week. Retrieved 2 January 2015.