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To provide security and stability for current projects, we’re extending the 2022-25 Creative People and Places National Portfolio for one year, to 31 March 2026. 

The 2025-28 CPP National Portfolio Process will therefore also be postponed for one year, giving you more time to develop your plans and partnerships so that you can apply for funding for 2026-29. 

Mother and child smiling at drummers.
Photo by The St Helens Day Citizens’ Parade, commissioned by Heart of Glass. Photo © Stephen King.
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10 year celebration

10 years of Creative People and Places

Teams of people have played a part in making Creative People and Places a success over the last 10 years. From the communities themselves, the organisations involved and the individual, often freelance, practitioners, all of whom have shown incredible commitment to the communities they work with. 

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10 years of Creative People and Places

By Rebecca Blackman, 21 November 2022

Our Director for Engagement and Audiences, Rebecca Blackman reflects as we celebrate ten years of our Creative People and Places programme.

Create Your Place
Photo by Appetite Stoke
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The festival season is back with a twist, just in time for the 10 year celebration.

Audiences at the Coopers Arms in Highbridge for the Front Garden Music Festival 2022, with Seed Sedgemoor. Image by Beni Evans
Photo by Audiences at the Coopers Arms in Highbridge for the Front Garden Music Festival 2022, with Seed Sedgemoor. Image by Beni Evans
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How creativity transformed my life

20 March 2023

Tess shares her story about finding her purpose through creativity and culture in the most challenging times of her life.

Image of Tess at starter day looking at a puppet
Photo by Starter Day Images by Andrew Billington Photography
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Welcome

Get a flavour of the programme…

This ground-breaking programme brings together local people with professional artists, curators, producers and performers. They all share the common aim of changing lives for the better in their neighbourhoods through creativity and culture.

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Are you a current Creative People and Places programme? 

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Get the documents, guidance and templates that you'll need while delivering your Creative People and Places activity

Andrew Billington
Photo by (c) Andrew Billington
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