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Report 2016-17 Creative Industries Federation Creative Industries Federation UK Council 2016-2017 Marcus Davey, Chief Executive and Artistic Director, Roundhouse (Co-chair), Amanda Nevill, Chief Executive, British Film Institute (Co-chair), Caroline Rush, Chief Executive, British Fashion Council (Co-chair), Nick Allott, Managing Director, Cameron Mackintosh, David Anderson, Director General, National Museum of Wales, Paul Appleby, Chair, Bristol Media, Sir John Sorrell (Chair and Founder) Karen Blackett, Chairwoman, MediaCom UK, David Osa Amadasun, Goldsmiths and Founder, Project U.N.C.L.E, Sally Nigel Carrington, Vice-Chancellor, University of the Arts London Bacon, Executive Director, Clore Duffield Foundation, Joanna Baker, Managing Director and Company Secretary, Edinburgh Melanie Eusebe, Chair and Co-founder, Black British Business Awards International Festival, Rob da Bank, Founder, Association of Independent Festivals, Simon Belsham, Chief Executive, Lord Hall, Director-General, BBC Notonthehighstreet.com, Alice Black, Deputy Director, Design Museum, Andrew Brewerton, Principal and Chief Executive, Nick Harvey, Partner, Helion Partners Plymouth College of Art, Sally Britton, Partner, Mishcon de Reya LLP, Dan Brooke, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Channel 4, Deborah Bull, Assistant Principal (Culture and Engagement), King’s College London, Lisa Burger, Anna Jones, Chief Executive, Hearst Magazines UK Executive Director, National Theatre, Dinah Caine, Chair, Creative Skillset, Jo Dipple, Chief Executive Officer, UK Music, Jude Kelly, Artistic Director, Southbank Centre Deborah Dawton, Chief Executive, Design Business Association, Michael Eakin, Chief Executive, Liverpool Philharmonic, Baroness Lane-Fox, philanthropist and public servant Naomi Gummer, Head of Public Policy and Government Relations, Google UK, Andy Heath, Chairman, Beggars Group, Ian Livingstone, games entrepreneur Darren Henley, Chief Executive, Arts Council England, Chris Hirst, European and UK Group CEO, Havas, Barry Ife, Janet Markwick, Chief Operations Officer, Grey EMEA Principal, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Tom Inns, Director, The Glasgow School of Art, Richard Johnston, Chief Tessa Ross, Co-chief Executive, House Productions Executive Officer, Endemol Shine UK, David Jubb, Artistic Director, Battersea Arts Centre, Tiernan Kelly, Director, Film City Glasgow, Cat Lewis, CEO and Executive Producer, Nine Lives Media, Carol Main, Director, Live Music Now Scotland, Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate Catherine Mallyon, Executive Director, Royal Shakespeare Company, Nicola Mendelsohn, VP EMEA, Facebook, Dorothy Philip Watkins, Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (Company Secretary) Miell, Vice-Principal, University of Edinburgh, Dave Moutrey, Director and Chief Executive, HOME, Jonathan Newby, Tom Weldon, Chief Executive, Penguin Random House UK Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer, Science Museum Group, Adrian Packer, Chief Executive Officer, CORE Education Trust, Natasha Plowright, Director of Communications, The Photographers’ Gallery, Abigail Pogson, Managing Director, Sage Gateshead, Victoria Pomery, Director, Turner Contemporary, Denise Proctor, Chief Executive, NoiseFestival. com, Jemma Read, Head of Philanthropy, EMEA, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Russ Shaw, Founder, Tech London Advocates, Robin Simpson, Chief Executive, Voluntary Arts, Alistair Spalding, Chief Executive and Artistic Director, Sadler’s Wells, Amahra Spence, Founder and Director, MAIA Creatives, Andrea Stark, Director, Foundation for FutureLondon, Giselle Stewart, Director, UK Corporate Affairs, Ubisoft, Phil Stokes, UK Entertainment and Media Leader, PwC, Geoff Taylor, Chief Executive, BPI, Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp, Chief Executive, The Place, Graeme Thompson, Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Sunderland, Nick Toon, Vice President, UK Public Policy, Time Warner, Sharon Watson, Artistic Director, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Paul Williams, Director, Stanton Williams. Creative Industries Federation International Council 2016-2017 Tom Fletcher, Diplomat (Chair), Hasan Bakhshi, Senior Director, Creative Economy and Data Analytics, Nesta, Anne-Britt Gran, Director, Centre for Creative Industries at Norwegian Business School and Secretary, Norwegian Government Council for Cultural and Creative Industries, H.E. Noura Al Kaabi , Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs of the United Arab Emirates and Chairwoman of the Media Zone Authority – Abu Dhabi (MZA) and twofour54, Roly Keating, Chief Executive, British Library, Andrej Kupetz, Chief Executive, German Design Council, Ruth Mackenzie, Artistic Director, Holland Festival, Jairaj Mashru, Founder, Bombay Innovation Group and Ecosystem Architect, Lower Parel Innovation District, Linda Merrick, Principal, Royal Northern College of Music, Martin Roth, Director, Victoria and Albert Museum, Krishna Thiagarajan, Chief Executive, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Phil Thomas, Chief Executive, Lions Festivals (including Cannes Lions). CREDITS Report authors: Eliza Easton, Harriet Finney, Louise Jury, Jack Powell Designers: Toyas–OMara With thanks to other members of the team including Rosa Carbo-Mascarell and Emilia Carslaw and to all Federation members who were so helpful in providing information and images and for hosting many of our events during the year. Contents Foreword – Sir John Sorrell 3 The year at the Federation – John Kampfner 5 Industrial strategy 12 An industrial strategy for the creative industries – Submission to the business, energy and industrial strategy select committee Europe 22 Policy work before the referendum Brexit Report: The impact of leaving the EU on the UK’s arts, creative industries and cultural education – and what should be done 24 International 42 Interview – Why diplomat Tom Fletcher is swapping global conflict for a creative future Skills pipeline 48 Social Mobility and the Skills Gap, Creative Education Agenda 2016 51 Apprenticeships – Submission to the Department for Education 60 Diversity 62 Why diversity and creativity are crucial to the future of engineering – Naomi Climer, first female president of the Institution of Engineering and Technology 64 Votes for change: how to take the initiative – Catherine Mayer, co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party 66 My name is… A talk on the artist’s responsibilities – Kwame Kwei-Armah, writer/director 68 Sustainability of Channel 4 – Submission to the House of Lords communications committee inquiry 70 Around the UK 74 Countries of culture – Submission to the culture select committee inquiry 78 The view from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 86 Culture-led regeneration in London – Submission to the Greater London Authority inquiry 91 1 Richard Alston Dance Company at the Federation’s First Anniversary Celebration Broomfield Ben Photo: 2 Foreword In Britain we have many things of which As I prepare to step down as Federation we can be justly proud but right at the top chair in 2017, I feel proud of the rate of of the list are the creative industries. They progress which is far greater than I ever make the country a better place, bringing joy anticipated. I want to thank the original and personal fulfilment. They build better group of founders, the members of our board communities. They deliver money and jobs. and our UK and international councils, as The world recognises and respects the well as our brilliant chief executive, John leadership position of our creative industries Kampfner, and his extraordinary team. But and other countries want to emulate our most of all I want to thank our members who success. Yet in the past, the sector struggled have joined together to create an inspirational to be seen as a whole and to show itself as movement which is unique in the world. indispensable, economically, culturally and Now and in the coming years, the work socially. That is why, nearly a decade ago, of the Creative Industries Federation will be I began the drive to create the Federation. vital for the sake of the sector itself and for There is no other country that has an the benefit of Britain. organisation with the diversity and quality of members we enjoy across all the arts, creative industries and cultural education. But the Federation is even greater than the sum of its parts, giving our creative community influence way beyond that achievable by any particular discipline acting alone. It opens doors, politically, and is what I always hoped it would be – an independent voice that is fearless, independent and realistic. Swannell Photo: John Sir John Sorrell, Chair and Founder, Creative Industries Federation January 2017 Photo: Ben Broomfield Ben Photo: 3 David Cameron, then prime minister, with actor Dominic West, Baroness Jowell and Federation members, at the launch of the Fed’s EU survey results at Abbey Road studios Copyright Crown Coupe Georgina Photo: Grayson Perry, artist and University of the Arts London chancellor, with Brett Rogers, The Photographers’ Gallery director, at the Federation’s first Unique Conversation, held at UAL Central St Martins Carbo-Mascarell Rosa Photo: 4 The year at the Federation John Kampfner, Chief Executive, Creative Industries Federation If 2016 turned so many assumptions upside Our carefully curated Unique Breakfasts down, there is every reason to expect 2017 were much sought after, examining issues to be at least as turbulent. from the future of TV regulation to the role The Creative Industries Federation is of women in public life and policy parallels