Commercial & Programming

Bringing together data and insights from more than 260 cultural and heritage sites, A Seat at the Table: Embedding Commercial Thinking in the Cultural Sector is a new report from the Association for Cultural Enterprises looking at the factors driving financial resilience across the sector.

A crucial insight within the report is that having commercial teams involved in programming decisions increases financial resilience. 

In this episode, host Tom stress tests this insight with an expert panel of guests from venues and organisations around the UK. What have been their experiences of getting Commercial and Programming to work closer together? What are the challenges and opportunities? 

Expert panel:

Holly T Burrows - Commercial Manager at The Cartoon Museum

Sara Ley - Head of Trading at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

Claire Lane - Director of Commercial at The Ashmolean Museum

The podcast for the Cultural Sector.

The Arts & Culture podcast delivers best-in-class thought leadership, with industry heavy hitters and crucial sector-defining topics, going behind the scenes at the UK's museums, galleries and heritage sites. 

Host Tom Dawson is COO for the Association for Cultural Enterprises.

https://culturalenterprises.org.uk/