Our friends at Performing Arts Forum have asked us to share the information below:

Help us collect the data to push for positive change

Performing Arts Forum and First Music Contact, together with other arts resource organisations, are continuing our work to advocate for fairer, more sustainable careers across the cultural sector.

This December, we’re repeating our Pay and Conditions research (our most recent version can be found here). We expect the findings to again highlight the chronic under-resourcing of the sector but the more responses we receive, the stronger the evidence we can bring to Government, funders, and partners.

Please take the time to complete the survey most relevant to you – these are all listed below. 

All responses are completely anonymous and will only be reported in aggregated form.

Deadline: 5pm, Friday 19th December

Results published: Early in the New Year

Your voice matters. Your experience matters.

Help strengthen the case for meaningful, sustainable investment across the arts.  Pay & Conditions Surveys

Artist: 
If you see yourself primarily as an artist, please take time to complete this survey

Arts Workers: 
If you see yourself as mainly an arts worker, please take time to complete this survey

Arts Centres, Venues and Theatres:
If you are involved in the running of an arts centre, venue or theatres, please take the time to complete this survey

This will collect information specific to arts centres, venues and theatres, but please do also share the artists and arts workers surveys with your team and contacts and complete the arts workers’ survey yourself.

Festivals:
If you are involved in the running of a festival, please take the time to complete this survey

This will collect information specific to festivals, but please do also share the artists and arts workers surveys with your team and contacts.

Production Companies: 
If you are involved in the running of a production company year-round, please take the time to complete this survey

This will collect information specific to organisations, but please do also share the artists and arts workers surveys with your team and contacts and complete the arts workers’ survey yourself.

Creative Production Supports and Independent Producers working across more than four projects in 2024:
If you are involved in the running of a Creative Production Support, please take the time to complete this survey

This will collect information specific to organisations, but please do also share the artists and arts workers surveys with your team and contacts and complete the arts workers’ survey yourself.

Creative Production Supports and Production Companies and Independent Producers working across more than four projects in 2024:
We need to send you a spreadsheet for completion. Please email [email protected] for this.

Pay & Conditions Surveys

Your voice matters. Your experience matters.

Help strengthen the case for meaningful, sustainable investment across the arts.

Thank you,

Performing Arts Forum & First Music Contact