Chaired by Lord Mayor William Russell, the City of London Corporation, in partnership with its creative district, Culture Mile, formed the Culture and Commerce Taskforce in October 2020.
The Culture & Commerce Taskforce assembled leading figures from across the capital’s commercial, civic, tech, and creative organisations to find new ways in which London’s creative and business sectors can work together to maintain the City’s competitive advantage as a global creative and commercial hub.
The Taskforce’s Fuelling Creative Renewal report, published last year, set out a blueprint for stronger ties between businesses and the creative sectors to boost London’s economic growth as the UK recovers from the pandemic.
In the last 12 months, the City Corporation and Culture Mile delivered with partners almost £800,000 worth of investment in collaborative, cross-sector projects to help attract people back to the Square Mile and wider London. 40 commercial sites were used to showcase creative activity, filling shops, offices, and public spaces with art, attracting visitors and workers back to the City, and boosting footfall, with creatives securing new jobs and workspaces to reach City audiences. Over 6,000 hours of free creative workspace were also secured.
A final report from the Culture & Commerce Taskforce A Year of Fuelling Creative Renewal has been distributed, alongside how to guides, thinkpieces as well as a short film that provides an overview of the last 12 months’ work. Download the report and watch the video on the City of London Corporation website.
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Short film created by Chocolate Films.
Photography by Ben Broomfield, Odera Okoye, Francisco Augusto, Deirdre McLaughlin, Jekaterina Drozdovica, Torri Edwards, Guy J Sanders, Em Davis, Francisco Augusto, Jamie Smith, Jason Alden, Studio Egret West and Factory Fifteen.
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