How Creative Land Trust creates long-term change
CLT is a creative placekeeper; its role is distinct from studio provision. It secures permanent creative infrastructure that would otherwise be difficult to protect through the market alone.
What Creative Land Trust does
THE CHALLENGE
Rising land values, redevelopment pressure and insecure leases are shrinking affordable creative space in London and increasing precarity for artists and providers.
Foundational outcomes
0-36 months
WHAT CLT DOES
Artist outcomes
1-5 years
Place outcomes
3-7 years
System outcomes
5+ years
Long-term impact
Creative infrastructure
Securing affordable space for the long term
73%
say they have extended their professional network in the building
87%
say they are confident they can keep their studio long-term
90%
choose to renew their studio rental contracts
50%
of new studio holders were working from home before
182
Artists supported
90%
say they are confident in the long-term provision of their building
93%
agreed their space is affordable
100%
say their studio is essential to their creative development
Our impact includes:
- A growing portfolio of permanent artist studio space across the capital
- Hundreds of artists supported
- Buildings protected for creative use in perpetuity
- Strong and sustained demand for affordable workspace
- Long-term cultural and community benefit within neighbourhoods across London
We work collaboratively with studio providers, developers, local authorities, funders and communities to strengthen London’s long-term creative infrastructure.
Our Reports
We commission reports to help illustrate the impact and importance of affordable creative workspace for artists, communities, place, the economy and society.
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Our Reports
We commission reports to help illustrate the impact and importance of affordable creative workspace for artists, communities, place, the economy and society.
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Research
Creative Land Trust was conceived following a series of reports highlighting the challenges of sustaining creative industries in prospering cities, and the risks poses to our culture and economies if the sector is not protected.
Since then, we have seen unprecedented changes to communities and industries. COVID-19 highlighted the fragility of our creative industries as well as shedding light on many other challenges within the sector.
As we continue to understand and forecast the many external forces that affect studio provision, we will document findings, reports and case studies to help inform our support of the sector.
The Art of the Workplace
New research evidencing for the first time since the pandemic the positive benefits of arts and culture in the workplace for office workers’ wellbeing, creativity and connectivity. The Art of the Workplace Report reveals what makes offices nationwide happier places to work and the importance of wellbeing in the workplace.
Making High Streets Work
‘Business office space rents in LB Lambeth increased by 71% between 2009-2019, whilst light industrial rents rose by more than 80%’ The reports demonstrates the local and London wide need for workspace, whether that ‘hot desking’ or co-working spaces, light industrial studios for makers & artists.
Creative Highstreets
‘50% of adults would like to see more cultural experiences on their high streets.’ This paper articulates the opportunity for rejuvenating high streets, and provides practical information from case study research on how to prioritise strategies, plans and actions for embedding creative and cultural uses in high streets.
Creatives for London
“100% of project representatives said creatives added value to the project.” Through a condensed review of four live City of London Corporation projects, this report develops an understanding of the value of embedding a cultural or creative person within a built environment project.
Research
Creative Land Trust was conceived following a series of reports highlighting the challenges of sustaining creative industries in prospering cities, and the risks posed to our culture and economies if the sector is not protected.
Since then, we have seen unprecedented changes to communities and industries. COVID-19 highlighted the fragility of our creative industries as well as shedding light on many other challenges within the sector.
As we continue to understand and forecast the many external forces that affect studio provision, we will document findings, reports and case studies to help inform our support of the sector.
Visual Arts Organisations call new Government to action
21 organisations across the visual arts have come together to provide key policy recommendations for a new UK government to enact to help sustain and grow the UK’s visual arts and support the UK’s visual artists.With the visual arts contributing £49 billion to the UK’s creative industries, it’s time to recognise the power of the UK’s visual arts and maintain our global presence.
Fostering Impact: An investor guide for engaging communities in place-based impact investing
A report designed for investors, developers, and stakeholders who want to enhance their impact and financial performance by forging partnerships with local communities through meaningful engagement. Our guide empowers investors to identify and pursue community engagement opportunities within a place-based impact investment approach.
