Creative UK, 25 March 2025, United Kingdom

Forging Freelance Futures is Creative UK’s comprehensive report into the freelance economy of the cultural and creative industries. Based on a survey of 1272 freelancers and 221 organisations, as well as a series of regional focus groups, this report seeks to demonstrate the challenges and opportunities faced by those working within the freelance economy.

Creative New Zealand - Toi Aotearoa, 17 March 2025, New Zealand

Tū Mai Rā, Toi Aotearoa: Te haerenga ki 2040, Our journey to 2040 – sets out Creative New Zealand’s proposed vision, goals and strategic direction for the next fifteen years, as the national arts development agency of Aotearoa New Zealand.

NEMO - The Network of European Museum Organisations, 17 March 2025, International

Based on input from the European museum community, the report provides insights into how museums approach this crucial subject, including survey findings on diversity policies, staff roles, and institutional challenges.

Creative Australia, 11 March 2025, Australia

The Creative Workforce Scoping Study is a groundbreaking piece of research that distils knowledge of long-standing workforce issues in the creative sector, along with new data on how contemporary labour, technical and economic challenges are impacting the creative workforce.

Manatū Taonga - Ministry for Culture & Heritage, New Zealand, 02 March 2025, New Zealand

The Growing Up in New Zealand research project is a longitudinal study undertaken by the University of Auckland. The project follows the lives of more than 6,000 young people and their families from before birth. In 2024, the first specific report studying 12-year-old’s participation and experiences with arts, culture and recreation activities was completed.

Arts Council England, 28 February 2025, England

Each year, Arts Council England measure their progress by collecting, analysing and reporting on data relating to equality and diversity of the work, organisations and projects they fund. This report incorporates the annual report they have previously published on diversity data and looks at data on the workforce of those organisations that they regularly funded through their 2018-23 National Por…