The UK/Poland Season 2025, led by the British Council, was a celebration of UK/Polish artistic co-creation and cultural partnerships. The UK/Poland Season 2025 was produced in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Institute in London and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
It took place between March and November 2025 in Poland and the UK, providing new opportunities for organisations and artists to collaborate and contribute to the links between both countries. The UK/Poland Season 2025 celebrated the diversity of the cultures and explored the ambitions of the next generation in order to forge closer ties between the two nations and meet major global challenges.
Report key findings
- 86% of partners were likely to return to work with the country of their partner in the future.
- 90% of partners were able to develop their professional networks.
- 80% of partners became part of a wider intercultural and international network and 86% have improved their organisation’s intercultural fluency or exchange.
- 86% of partners took part in the UK/Poland Season 2025 to find funding for a new or existing project and 48% of partners indicated that the delivery of their project helped them or their organisation to gain funding for future projects.
- 68% of partners secured some additional funding or support, with 58% of partners securing match funding, 32% securing support in kind and 11% securing traded / earned income.
- For every £1 received in grant support from the British Council, projects reported leveraging a further £2.55 of financial contribution.
Through the UK/Poland Season 2025, 95% of partners developed new approaches to their work, 95% found new artistic forms, approaches, ideas and ways of working, 95% gained knowledge that would benefit their organisations and their communities, 86% developed their organisation’s skills, 85% found new ways of engaging with participants and audiences and 57% increased their organisational capacity.
The evaluation was conducted by the Audience Agency.