The British Council’s Arts Group consists of a team of professionals who mobilise the best of British creative talent to develop innovative programmes that will engage with thousands of people all over the world, drawing them into a closer relationship with the UK. The areas we cover include music, drama, dance, visual arts, design, architecture, film, literature, new media, museums management and the creative economy, and we have multi-disciplinary arts specialists based in our offices in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast.

However, unlike the UK’s Arts Councils, we are not an arts funding organisation; we use the arts to respond to the UK’s international strategic and geographical priorities by promoting the debate of issues and ideas, challenging opinions and increasing understanding between cultures. To read more about how this is done, please click here.

See below for more information on how we work with organisations and individuals: