Arts and Culture Commissioning Toolkit

This toolkit will help you understand and engage with commissioning. Being commissioned provides an opportunity for the arts and cultural sector to deliver contracts for a whole range of public services whilst other funding is under increasing pressure.

Commissioning is about identifying people's needs and deciding how best to use the resources available to improve outcomes for communities.

The toolkit has been produced by Royal Opera House Bridge, Artswork and Kent County Council (KCC) for the UK cultural sector as providers, and the people who might commission them. It includes practical advice and learning from people and organisations in Kent who piloted commissioning for wellbeing in 2014.

The experience of six cultural providers, their partners and the commissioning group was used to create this toolkit. The commission was part of Kent's large-scale programme to promote the Six Ways to Wellbeing to their communities. Each provider was contracted to work with vulnerable young people in particular targeted areas in Kent, using creative interventions and festivals to help them learn behaviours that would increase their wellbeing.

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For more information visit http://www.artscommissioningtoolkit.com/