Independent Theatre Council
@itc-arts.bsky.social
ITC is the management association representing the UK independent arts sector.
We represent and advocate for best working practices, supporting our members as they lead the industry.
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/itcarts
We represent and advocate for best working practices, supporting our members as they lead the industry.
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/itcarts
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For those meeting us for the first time on blue sky, we should introduce ourselves.
The Independent Theatre Council are the management association for the UK independent performance sector.
We provide a range of resources, such as legal advice, networking opportunities, training, and advocacy.
The Independent Theatre Council are the management association for the UK independent performance sector.
We provide a range of resources, such as legal advice, networking opportunities, training, and advocacy.
Young People's Theatre: From Challenge to Change
We'll be presenting a session specifically for theatre organisations producing work for and with young people.
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
We'll be presenting a session specifically for theatre organisations producing work for and with young people.
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Young People's Theatre: From Challenge to Change
We'll be presenting a session specifically for theatre organisations producing work for and with young people.
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
We'll be presenting a session specifically for theatre organisations producing work for and with young people.
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
Looking to help with funding?
This course teaches successful bid writing techniques for those seeking funding for their organisation or projects.
www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
This course teaches successful bid writing techniques for those seeking funding for their organisation or projects.
www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
October 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Looking to help with funding?
This course teaches successful bid writing techniques for those seeking funding for their organisation or projects.
www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
This course teaches successful bid writing techniques for those seeking funding for their organisation or projects.
www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
Our next webinar explains the different corporate and charitable structures available, their benefits and drawbacks, and the application processes.
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
Image: Drive Your Plow by Complicite, credit Photo Alex Brenner
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
Image: Drive Your Plow by Complicite, credit Photo Alex Brenner
September 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Our next webinar explains the different corporate and charitable structures available, their benefits and drawbacks, and the application processes.
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
Image: Drive Your Plow by Complicite, credit Photo Alex Brenner
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
Image: Drive Your Plow by Complicite, credit Photo Alex Brenner
For ITC to engage more effectively with boards, we are asking trustees to complete this quick survey. It will only take them 5 minutes to complete and could win your company a free place on an ITC training course in a prize draw.
Please share👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Board Members Survey
As the management association for the independent performing arts sector, ITC exists to support leaders, including your board. However, board members are often less familiar with ITC and the ways we c...
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September 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
For ITC to engage more effectively with boards, we are asking trustees to complete this quick survey. It will only take them 5 minutes to complete and could win your company a free place on an ITC training course in a prize draw.
Please share👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
ITC's summary statement of recent ACE issues:
www.itc-arts.org/arts-council...
www.itc-arts.org/arts-council...
Arts Council England Project Grants – Major Concerns | ITC Independent Theatre Council
Earlier this year ITC wrote to ACE to express concerns about leaked plans to change ACE Project funding in very unhelpful ways. ACE put these plans on hold, planning to revisit them in September after...
www.itc-arts.org
August 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
ITC's summary statement of recent ACE issues:
www.itc-arts.org/arts-council...
www.itc-arts.org/arts-council...
Get your show on the road with ITC's tour booking course.
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
August 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Get your show on the road with ITC's tour booking course.
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
Arts Council England’s most recent update on their grants management system: www.artscouncil.org.uk/applying-fun...
August 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Arts Council England’s most recent update on their grants management system: www.artscouncil.org.uk/applying-fun...
ITC's new forum will be hosted by @20storieshigh.bsky.social
Focusing on their Access Manifesto, created with @graeaetheatre.bsky.social
Find out more:
www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
Focusing on their Access Manifesto, created with @graeaetheatre.bsky.social
Find out more:
www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
July 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
ITC's new forum will be hosted by @20storieshigh.bsky.social
Focusing on their Access Manifesto, created with @graeaetheatre.bsky.social
Find out more:
www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
Focusing on their Access Manifesto, created with @graeaetheatre.bsky.social
Find out more:
www.itc-arts.org/events/event...
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Thanks to @itc-arts.bsky.social for hosting an afternoon for NPO leadership.
Lots of useful info shared, and great to meet with people in person and hear their stories you sometimes miss on a screen
Lots of useful info shared, and great to meet with people in person and hear their stories you sometimes miss on a screen
July 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Thanks to @itc-arts.bsky.social for hosting an afternoon for NPO leadership.
Lots of useful info shared, and great to meet with people in person and hear their stories you sometimes miss on a screen
Lots of useful info shared, and great to meet with people in person and hear their stories you sometimes miss on a screen
ITC’s leadership support event for NPOs today at one of our member’s, ArtsAdmin, lovely studios
July 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
ITC’s leadership support event for NPOs today at one of our member’s, ArtsAdmin, lovely studios
There’s actually no legal maximum workplace temperature, just a provision that this should be “reasonable”.🌡️
The Theatre Safety Committee, a pan-industry body that includes ITC, has produced guidance to give more detail on what you can do to keep your staff safe in the heat.
bit.ly/4lNThXs
The Theatre Safety Committee, a pan-industry body that includes ITC, has produced guidance to give more detail on what you can do to keep your staff safe in the heat.
bit.ly/4lNThXs
www.itc-arts.org
July 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
There’s actually no legal maximum workplace temperature, just a provision that this should be “reasonable”.🌡️
The Theatre Safety Committee, a pan-industry body that includes ITC, has produced guidance to give more detail on what you can do to keep your staff safe in the heat.
bit.ly/4lNThXs
The Theatre Safety Committee, a pan-industry body that includes ITC, has produced guidance to give more detail on what you can do to keep your staff safe in the heat.
bit.ly/4lNThXs
Access to Work call to action to ITC members
Along with thousands of organisations and practitioners, ITC is incredibly concerned about the impact of Access to Work changes.
www.itc-arts.org/access-to-wo...
Along with thousands of organisations and practitioners, ITC is incredibly concerned about the impact of Access to Work changes.
www.itc-arts.org/access-to-wo...
Access to Work call to action to ITC members | ITC Independent Theatre Council
Along with thousands of organisations and practitioners, we have signed the open letter to the Secretaries of State about the threat to Access to Work. We have also written and sent a letter on behalf...
www.itc-arts.org
June 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Access to Work call to action to ITC members
Along with thousands of organisations and practitioners, ITC is incredibly concerned about the impact of Access to Work changes.
www.itc-arts.org/access-to-wo...
Along with thousands of organisations and practitioners, ITC is incredibly concerned about the impact of Access to Work changes.
www.itc-arts.org/access-to-wo...
Join Our Team!
Not long left to apply:
Do you have excellent listening and problem-solving skills, and enjoy varied, interesting and rewarding work?
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/opportunity/...
Not long left to apply:
Do you have excellent listening and problem-solving skills, and enjoy varied, interesting and rewarding work?
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/opportunity/...
June 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Join Our Team!
Not long left to apply:
Do you have excellent listening and problem-solving skills, and enjoy varied, interesting and rewarding work?
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/opportunity/...
Not long left to apply:
Do you have excellent listening and problem-solving skills, and enjoy varied, interesting and rewarding work?
Find out more: www.itc-arts.org/opportunity/...
Great to work with @writersguildgb.bsky.social on this
June 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Great to work with @writersguildgb.bsky.social on this
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Millions from dormant bank accounts will be channelled into assisting young people’s involvement in music, drama, and sport, the government has revealed 👇
Dormant bank accounts to boost young people's access to the arts
Millions from dormant bank accounts will be channelled into assisting young people's involvement in music, drama, and sport, the government has revealed
www.thestage.co.uk
June 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Millions from dormant bank accounts will be channelled into assisting young people’s involvement in music, drama, and sport, the government has revealed 👇
ITC is proud to agree a deal that supports companies and writers to produce new work
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Playwrights working in the UK independent theatre sector are to gain new rights for the digital exploitation of their work and a 24% uplift in minimum fees over three years, following a major update to the existing agreement between WGGB + @itc-arts.bsky.social
writersguild.org.uk/itc-new-agre...
writersguild.org.uk/itc-new-agre...
June 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
ITC is proud to agree a deal that supports companies and writers to produce new work
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Playwrights receive significant fee rise and new digital rights in major update to ITC / WGGB agreement
Read what's happening:
www.itc-arts.org/playwrights-...
Read what's happening:
www.itc-arts.org/playwrights-...
June 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Playwrights receive significant fee rise and new digital rights in major update to ITC / WGGB agreement
Read what's happening:
www.itc-arts.org/playwrights-...
Read what's happening:
www.itc-arts.org/playwrights-...
The Creative Business Panel is a landmark survey of creative businesses. The survey can be completed by a leader of any creative industries company with more than one employee.
horizons.confirmit.eu/wix/p2099146...
horizons.confirmit.eu/wix/p2099146...
May 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The Creative Business Panel is a landmark survey of creative businesses. The survey can be completed by a leader of any creative industries company with more than one employee.
horizons.confirmit.eu/wix/p2099146...
horizons.confirmit.eu/wix/p2099146...
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We have released a statement on the impact of recent proposed policy changes & benefits reform within the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper.
graeae.org/resource/gra...
Our community cannot & should not take this further assault on civil liberties!
graeae.org/resource/gra...
Our community cannot & should not take this further assault on civil liberties!
May 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
We have released a statement on the impact of recent proposed policy changes & benefits reform within the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper.
graeae.org/resource/gra...
Our community cannot & should not take this further assault on civil liberties!
graeae.org/resource/gra...
Our community cannot & should not take this further assault on civil liberties!
Today is the last day of the extension.
Please feed into the review if you are, have been, or hoped to be funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social
Please feed into the review if you are, have been, or hoped to be funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social
'ACE’s mandate does not need to change, but the flexibility to deliver on its own strategy needs to improve.'
Read ITC's summary of submission to the ACE review following members' consultation 👇
www.itc-arts.org/a-summary-of...
Read ITC's summary of submission to the ACE review following members' consultation 👇
www.itc-arts.org/a-summary-of...
A Summary of ITC’s submission to ACE Review following consultation with ITC members | ITC Independent Theatre Council
DCMS has launched a survey to support the review of the future of Arts Council England and how creativity is nurtured and developed. As a management association, ITC works to amplify the voices of its...
www.itc-arts.org
May 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Today is the last day of the extension.
Please feed into the review if you are, have been, or hoped to be funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social
Please feed into the review if you are, have been, or hoped to be funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social
Developing your company after the Fringe:
Jackie Elliman from ITC will be available to answer your questions on the legal issues Fringe companies may encounter when they want to develop and grow.
Jackie is running individual sessions between 12 noon and 2 pm tomorrow at The Old Court House
Jackie Elliman from ITC will be available to answer your questions on the legal issues Fringe companies may encounter when they want to develop and grow.
Jackie is running individual sessions between 12 noon and 2 pm tomorrow at The Old Court House
May 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Developing your company after the Fringe:
Jackie Elliman from ITC will be available to answer your questions on the legal issues Fringe companies may encounter when they want to develop and grow.
Jackie is running individual sessions between 12 noon and 2 pm tomorrow at The Old Court House
Jackie Elliman from ITC will be available to answer your questions on the legal issues Fringe companies may encounter when they want to develop and grow.
Jackie is running individual sessions between 12 noon and 2 pm tomorrow at The Old Court House
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Writers, have you been asked to work for free?
Then join our call for evidence on the type + amount of free work that's been requested of you over the past 12 months to help us identify + tackle the problem
Open to non-members too!
#scriptskyuk #screenwriting
writersguild.org.uk/free-work/
Then join our call for evidence on the type + amount of free work that's been requested of you over the past 12 months to help us identify + tackle the problem
Open to non-members too!
#scriptskyuk #screenwriting
writersguild.org.uk/free-work/
May 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Writers, have you been asked to work for free?
Then join our call for evidence on the type + amount of free work that's been requested of you over the past 12 months to help us identify + tackle the problem
Open to non-members too!
#scriptskyuk #screenwriting
writersguild.org.uk/free-work/
Then join our call for evidence on the type + amount of free work that's been requested of you over the past 12 months to help us identify + tackle the problem
Open to non-members too!
#scriptskyuk #screenwriting
writersguild.org.uk/free-work/
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I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
May 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
ITC is recruiting!
Do you have excellent listening and problem-solving skills, and enjoy varied, interesting and rewarding work?
Find out more:
www.itc-arts.org/opportunity/...
Do you have excellent listening and problem-solving skills, and enjoy varied, interesting and rewarding work?
Find out more:
www.itc-arts.org/opportunity/...
May 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
ITC is recruiting!
Do you have excellent listening and problem-solving skills, and enjoy varied, interesting and rewarding work?
Find out more:
www.itc-arts.org/opportunity/...
Do you have excellent listening and problem-solving skills, and enjoy varied, interesting and rewarding work?
Find out more:
www.itc-arts.org/opportunity/...
A summary of ITC's submission to the ACE Review following consultation with our members
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www.instagram.com/p/DI32HB_t8R...
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www.instagram.com/p/DI32HB_t8R...
April 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A summary of ITC's submission to the ACE Review following consultation with our members
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www.instagram.com/p/DI32HB_t8R...
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www.instagram.com/p/DI32HB_t8R...