In 2025, in partnership with Chichester Festival Theatre and as part of my role as Creative Director of Creative Crawley, I convened 98 West Sussex creative professionals to co-write a West Sussex Cultural Prospectus.
As Sussex undergoes a once-in-a-generation change to local government, the prospectus demonstrates the crystal clear contribution that arts and culture makes to every inch of the county.
This collaborative work offers three ideas for strategic investment priorities led by new Combined County Authority and West Sussex unitary leadership over the next few years.
We know it will help underline shared aims across economic growth, health and wellbeing, skills, environmental resilience, community safety and place – by placing culture at their heart.
I am also part of the Culture Sussex group, collaborating to create a single offer across all of East Sussex, Brighton & Hove and West Sussex. This document feeds directly into that work.
Please share this document with anyone you think will use it to place culture in the new systems of power in Sussex.
The group to join the group and be part of the meetings email hello@creativecrawley.com
You can download the document From West Sussex to the World – a cultural snapshot, spring 2026 (2).