About us
NewcastleGateshead Cultural Venues is a partnership of 10 organisations running 22 venues across 8 cultural forms, all devoted to to delivering world-class culture and engaging more deeply with a growing and diverse audience.
Built on a decade of strong relationships and informal partnership working between 10 cultural leaders in NewcastleGateshead, since 2009, NGCV has become embedded as part of the everyday working lives of staff and volunteers across all the member organisations. We encourage collaboration at all levels to maximise the benefits of the diversity of skills, knowledge and expertise of everyone in the partnership.
We focus on:
- developing strategic and creative initiatives
- sharing learning, experience and resources
- being a strong collective voice
We explore ways to be:
- better placed to engage with audiences and new technologies
- more efficient and more cost-effective
- better informed about each other and the external landscape in which we operate
- better placed to use our shared resources
- better able to measure and demonstrate our collective value
This in turn makes us a more credible voice in representing the case for continued investment in culture and helps to gain maximum value from all the investment of the past decade.
You can find out more about NGCV's approach and activities in Our work .
You can find out more about the individual organisations on the Members page.
Further Information
NGCV partnership principles and practice
How we work together, our core principles, some examples of what we do are summarised in the following document:
How we work together
Our Sharing Protocol explains membership, sets our aims and objectives and also how the partnership works in practice. There is also a summary of the challenges and success factors when working in a partnership like NGCV.
NGCV Shared Working Challenges and Success Factors Report
Demonstrating collective impact
Our annual, independent Economic Impact Assessment helps us better understand and demonstrate our collective impact on the regional economy. Headline figures from the most recent report are available in the following summary:
