Connect. Collaborate. Empower.

We champion, connect, support and invest in creative people and businesses. We’re a group of diverse and inclusive professionals who believe in the power of the creative industries to change lives, placing creativity at the heart of the UK’s culture, economy and education system.

Our goal is simple: to cultivate a world where creativity is championed, valued, and fundamentally nurtured.

We unite the creative industries and generate opportunities for innovation to thrive by investing in people and their ideas. We are here for those who dare to imagine: imagine a fairer, more prosperous world, achieved through the power of creativity.

Invest

We’re well-versed in what creative businesses need to thrive and we know how to make it happen.

Support

We dedicate ourselves to understanding what the Creative Industries need and when they need it.

Champion

Our fearless and influential policy and advocacy work identifies the issues that matter most, to affect change on a bigger scale.

Become a Creative UK Member

Do you believe that creativity can change the world?

Creative UK membership connects creative leaders across the UK’s creative sub-sectors to champion and influence the Creative Industries.

We advocate for our members and provide exclusive access to research, networks, events, plus 100+ hours of footage from the largest festival for the Creative Industries. If you are an education provider, your students will have access to student membership, helping them to launch their creative careers.

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Benefits Include

1:1 Connection with Creative UK

Receive bespoke support through a dedicated Partnerships Manager who will help you achieve your objectives and make the most of your membership.

Policy and Advocacy

We champion the priorities of our members, working with them to influence both policy and practice. Shape our campaigns, join roundtables, and drive meaningful change across the sector. Our priorities are People, Place, Planet.

Benefits Include

Connect and Collaborate

Join colleagues from across the creative industries at a variety of key network meetings to connect with others, share insights and turn ideas into reality. This includes the Creative Skills & Futures Network, Diversity & Inclusion Network and Trade Body Network.

Exclusive Insights & Content

Gain exclusive access to our policy papers, data and insights, resources, comment pieces and thought leadership. We amplify members’ activity across our digital platforms, and commission original content to spotlight our members.

Benefits Include

Creative Coalition Festival

Attend Creative Coalition Festival’s in-person Opening Gala at Southbank Centre at a heavily discounted rate. Watch 100+ hours of footage with 600+ speakers from our 2020, 2022 and 2023 festivals. Plus more member-exclusive festival opportunities.

Student Membership

Students or young creatives will have access to membership, providing them with resources, opportunities and connections to launch their creative careers.

Benefits Include

Exclusive Invitations

Receive invitations to industry leading events

Perks and Discounts

Receive up to £5,000 of savings, including free legal advice and discounts on business software, products, and services for your team. Our perk partners include Marquee TV, Hopin, FoundersCard, Journolink and more…

Unite Your Company

Members can offer Creative UK access to unlimited colleagues and make the most of your membership.

Where our roots lie

The story of Creative UK

Creative England and the Creative Industries Federation joined forces to coalesce our collective capabilities, using creativity to shape the UK’s social, cultural, and economic future.

By merging the industry insights and advocacy work of the Federation, with the practical support and investment work of Creative England, we are now perfectly positioned to have visible impact and drive real change.

Our Logo

The story behind our emblem

Our primary logo mark consists of the amplification icon and our custom typeface in a full logo lock-up. The primary colour application is black, but it can appear in block reverse and any of the main brand colours.

The icon represents our brand ethos in amplifying the Creative Industries. The mark is bold, recognisable and translatable, and can be used as a standalone icon as required to represent CUK in instances where the full wordmark cannot be used.

Our Font

The new Creative UK typeface

With the importance of how Creative UK Group speaks directly to and for its members, a bespoke font was created to best capture the care and attention that the brand leads by. Shaped through a timeless and accessible Grotesk style, subtle humanist qualities gave way to not only a more distinctive result, but one which put people at its core.

Our beautifully handcrafted typeface is an integral part of all of our marketing and communication. The font will be made available to anyone in the Creative Industries that wants to use it to champion our brand.

Our Ethos

Collaboration is in our DNA

We bring creative people together, from all disciplines, turning up the volume on their voices, providing a platform for their creative ideas and projects, ultimately empowering them to amplify themselves. We forge connections; building and growing as a group is our superpower.