Join Cara Pickering and Anthony Ruck for our next WMCRU session where we’ll be taking a place-based approach to using data to support your NPO application through the research and data from A Creative West Midlands.

MEMBERS ONLY meeting to discuss the landscape, needs and opportunities for cultural infrastructure in the West Midlands.

MEMBERS ONLY meeting to gather feedback to present a collective response to DCMS call for evidence on the future of National Lottery good cause funding.

For the September WMCRU session, we’ll be joined by Dr Nicola Headlam to discuss ‘Burnham's Rewiring, Devolution, and Culture’.

MEMBERS ONLY meeting to review the new Arts Council Strategic Framework and what it might mean for the next NPO and future funding programmes.

Spend an hour with the sector to find out what’s happening across the region and meet new people.

Caroline White, Business Development Manager at BOM, will share insights into what’s happening in technology and culture within the region.

Join the first in-person cultural sector consultation session about the Invictus Games Birmingham 2027.

Join the first online cultural sector consultation session about the Invictus Games Birmingham 2027.

Hear from Ed Fidoe, Founder & CEO of the London Interdisciplinary School (LIS), on innovating within the UK’s higher education system.

Alex Newton from More in Common UK joins us for this special WMCRU session: Inside Reform UK's changing support base.

Join CEO of Culture Central Erica Love and Culture Central Leadership Associates Cara Pickering and Kat Hughes where we will focus on the actions and feedback from Murmuration, our annual summit.

Join Culture Central and the RSC for Murmuration: WM Culture Summit as we continue to collectively strategise for culture in 2026.

If you’re preparing bids for Town or City of Culture, delivering Pride in Place or place partnership programmes, heritage-led regeneration projects or developing policy and place-based strategies – come to this WMCRU session to find out how developing a Joint Cultural Needs Assessment can help. 

Join our Service Design Jam bringing together practitioners, organisations and creatives to tackle some of the most urgent workforce challenges facing the sector.

This session will build on Eliza Easton’s recent paper “Theatre transformed: harnessing research, development and innovation” and consider how learnings can be applied to the cultural sector more widely, where policy change is needed, and what the implications of the paper's findings are for the West Midlands.

This session will outline the process for the Charter for Equity pilot, explain the application process and share ideas about what makes truly equitable work across the cultural sector.

Culture Central will be coordinating a collective sector response to the visitor levy consultation starting with our WMCRU session on 13th January 2026.

Join Professor Lidia Varbanova for an inspiring look at the latest European research on cultivating innovation and entrepreneurship in cultural and creative Industries in non-urban areas.

To celebrate the opening of the new exhibition ‘The Stories That Made Us – Roots, Resilience, Representation’ conceived and co-curated by Hardish Virk in partnership with the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum we are inviting members of the community to a ‘dinner party’ in partnership with the Inclusive Network.

West Midlands Combined Authority in partnership with Culture Central is hosting a consultation session on the WMCA Creative Places Growth Fund.

Hear from Innovation Unit about co-designing a workforce strategy for the cultural sector in the West Midlands.

Co-Work with Culture Central - Join other Inc Net members in a quiet, focused space. These monthly sessions are about keeping momentum and having time to think, write or plan with others around.

Join this session to hear about the current priorities and plans for libraries, and all the work they do in place.  

Co-Work with Culture Central - Join other Inc Net members in a quiet, focused space. These monthly sessions are about keeping momentum and having time to think, write or plan with others around.

Thinking about applying in the next DYCP round? Join a focused workshop to shape your idea and plan a strong and compelling application.

Inclusive Network’s first ever Creative Scratch is a platform created exclusively for Inc Net members across the West Midlands to share new work, test ideas, and connect with audiences in an open, supportive space.

Join us for Inclusive Network Late Takes: Creative Circle on 24th September where we’ll explore how creatives are building sustainable practices, community wealth, and alternative economic models.

At this half day event you will find out what ‘A Creative West Midlands’ can do for you, get hands on with the new place profiler, and be inspired by how other places have used the research and data. 

This session will provide a briefing on the National Centre for Arts and Music Education and what it might meant for arts and cultural organisations.