A flourishing and sustainable arts and culture scene can be likened to healthy and fertile soil – teeming with life and diversity, full of energy, stimulating new growth with the large supporting the small, and the small very much helping to sustain the large. That’s how we see The Culture Network LCR working and growing!
To find more in-depth information about the Membership Offer, please read on or…
Now is a great time to join the current 75+ members and help build The Culture Network LCR.
Annual membership subscription is calculated as 0.1% (£100 per £100,000) of a company’s annual turnover. The lowest annual charge being £120 for a cultural organisation with a turnover under £100k per annum (equates to just £10 per month), and capped at a maximum of £5,000 per annum for a cultural organisation with annual turnover exceeding £5m.
The cost of membership is deliberately varied and dependent on the size of the business. Larger companies pay a higher fee as they are helping to support and subsidise access, keeping subscription low for smaller creative organisations. Just like healthy soil, with the large supporting the small!
During the first two development years of the CIC, membership will be paid on an annual subscription, renewable at the start of April.
Longer term, we’ll be reviewing the annual invoicing with the potential to allow new and existing member applicants to also pay on a monthly basis.
If you’re interested in joining the network, click below for the application form
All Members gain from these, No matter how much you pay!
- Biannual Connect meetings are in person full network meetings. These specially themed meetings allow you to catch up with culture colleagues, plus meet new ones, whilst learning and shaping the network’s future.
Connect In Person Full Network Meetings: December & June
- Biannual Catalyst meetings are online. They allow you to talk about your ask or your offer to the rest of the membership. To share or generate joint programming opportunities, invite collaboration on a project, share learning, or simply open up topics for debate, development or help. Think Hive Mind!
Catalyst Online Full Network Meetings: September & March
- First Friday Socials are our informal monthly socials, open to all LCR culture folk. These ensure we are open, accessible, supportive and equitable for the whole creative community of the region. If you’re interested in attending a future First Friday Social please email admin@culturenetwork.co.uk
- Our Working Groups bring members together to collaborate on shared challenges, shape priorities, and develop collective responses across the cultural sector in Liverpool City Region.
They are spaces for peer learning, knowledge-sharing and collective action, helping members influence strategy, strengthen practice and build partnerships beyond individual organisations. Some groups focus on long-term sector priorities, while others respond to emerging needs or opportunities.
Participation is open to members with relevant interest or experience, and groups are shaped by those involved.
Our current Working Groups
1. Strategy
A space for members to contribute to big-picture thinking about the Culture Network’s direction, priorities and role in the region – supporting collective leadership and long-term planning.
2. Joint Promotion
Focused on collaboration around communications, shared audiences and collective visibility, helping members amplify activity and strengthen sector voice.
3. Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Access (EDIA)
Brings members together to share learning, challenge barriers and develop practical approaches that embed equity, inclusion and access across cultural practice.
Read or download the EDIA Working Group’s Allyship document below, offering shared principles and practical guidance for more equitable, inclusive and anti-racist cultural practice.
4. SHIFT: The Sustainability Network
Supports members to respond to the climate emergency through shared learning, collaboration and practical action – recognising sustainability as both an environmental and organisational issue.
5. Participation & Skills
Explores how the sector supports participation, progression and skills development, particularly for young people and underrepresented communities.
- Round Tables take place every month. These specially themed, in person events offer a safe space for 15 people to informally discuss major topics.
- Monthly Member Bulletins deliver a specially curated Member Only e-newsletter to you and designated colleagues at the start of every month.
- Fight your FOMO with Uncover Liverpool, Open Culture’s lovingly-curated free weekly Arts Bulletin, website and social media. And it’s now Powered by The Culture Network LCR.
Sign up here for the Uncover Bulletin to get the city and region’s arts and culture events, jobs, callouts, news, Culture Skip (freecycle for the arts) and more straight to your inbox every Monday morning.
The Uncover website has been specially designed and built with all audiences at its heart, keeping the site clean and clutter free so you’re not bombarded by a mass of advertising.
It aims to strengthen community cohesion and grow engagement through promotion of our incredible arts and culture offer that takes place each and every day across the region. It is a key component of the Culture Network LCR member benefits and encourages us all to attend, value and support each other more.
- Member Annual Survey
- Member Directory
- Joint Programming
- Shared Learning Opportunities
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