30 years of A&B

Since 1976 we have been the catalyst for business investing over £1 billion in the arts.

There are 18 Arts & Business offices in the UK, from Brighton to the Scottish Highlands and Northern Ireland to Wales.

Since 1976 business investment in the arts has increased 200 fold reaching £119.2 million in 2004/05 and with individual and trust & foundation giving this figure reaches £452.1 million.

Arts & Business receives funding from business, the government and Arts Councils across the UK to promote creative partnerships between business and the arts.

Arts & Business is the largest such organisation in the world - over 1500 business & arts organisations in the UK are members.

We encourage businesses to try something new with the arts by investing in new partnerships – in 2004/05 Arts & Business New Partners made 276 investments, turning just under £2.5 million into just over £7.5 million, a return on investment of 3:1.

In the last decade Arts & Business have held over 400 seminars giving practical advice to arts professionals on how to raise sponsorship from the corporate sector.

Over 4500 business professionals have contributed their time, skills and expertise to thousands of non-profit arts organisations through our Board Bank, Skills Bank & Mentoring programmes.