Creative directory
On the hunt for your next collaboration? Want to find out what funding is currently available? Or maybe you’re looking to commission work or services?
The Culture Connects directory is a free creative resource open to anyone involved in the creative industries across Hampshire, designed to help you showcase your skills, connect meaningfully, and discover opportunities.
The Culture Connects directory is a free creative resource open to anyone involved in the creative industries across Hampshire, designed to help you showcase your skills, connect meaningfully, and discover opportunities.
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Training
In-house content creation: Making the most of your resources
- National
HdK
24.06.2025
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24.06.2025
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Training
Historical Context of Disability in the Arts
- National
Arts Marketing Association
16.06.2025
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16.06.2025
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Training
Webinar AI R&D: Beyond Arts Funding
- National
Figurative
12.06.2025
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12.06.2025
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Funding
People on probation innovation funding
- Hampshire
South Central Probation Service
22.05.2025
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30.06.2025
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Individual
Commotion Dance
- Hampshire
Commotion Dance are united by the belief that everyone should have the opportunity to experience dance and are committed to adhering to this ethos. Creating imaginative performative experiences for babies, toddlers, children and families.
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Collective
Seekers Create CIC
- Gosport |
- Hampshire
Seekers Create are expert community artists and connectors using creativity to build social infrastructure, wellbeing, and community resilience.
We co-create murals, trails, and playful experiences rooted in Asset-Based Community Development, nature, and heritage.
Our work fosters connection, confidence, and pride of place, especially among underrepresented groups.
As specialists in participatory arts and place-based engagement, we deliver high-impact, inclusive projects that bring long-term value.
Through a sustainable social enterprise model, we combine public benefit with financial resilience-helping communities thrive through creativity, collaboration, and care.
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Individual
Steve Glynn (Artforeveryone)
- Hampshire
I am a professional freelance artist and community arts facilitator based in Fleet, Hampshire, with over 25 years’ experience working across London and the South East. I specialise in plasticine model making, mosaics, and printmaking, delivering inclusive, hands-on workshops through my business Art for Everyone.
I work with people of all ages and abilities in schools, festivals, community settings, and care environments. I believe passionately in the power of creativity to support wellbeing, build confidence, and bring communities together, creating fun and supportive spaces where everyone is encouraged to explore their own artistic potential.
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Individual
Kristin Rawcliffe
- Aldershot |
- Farnborough |
- Hampshire
I am a painter and art educator living in Yateley, Hampshire.
As a painter, I have exhibited in Hampshire, Reading, Margate, London and Edinburgh, including Women’s Society of Artists and ING Discerning Eye.
Mostly working in oils, but also watercolour, pencil and printmaking, my paintings are about challenging stereotypes in representation of socially disadvantaged groups, and very often about motherhood.
I teach painting and drawing regularly to small groups and one-to-one. I love to give people confidence to explore different mediums as well as their own creativity.
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Organisation
Big Noise Community Samba Band
- Gosport
Big Noise Community Samba band are a group of around 40 drummers based in Gosport who have performed at over 400 event around Hampshire and beyond since 2007. They specialise in performing the Samba Reggae genre which hails from Salvador in Bahia Brazil. They are available for static perfomances, festivals and workshops throughout the year.
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Organisation
Hampshire Music Education Hub
- Hampshire
Hampshire Music Education Hub is committed to delivering outstanding musical opportunities for all children and young people in Hampshire.
Working in partnership locally, regionally and nationally, we provide the best possible opportunities to learn about music and through music.
Engage. Empower. Excel.
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Organisation
Crying Out Loud
- National
We are creative producers. We are passionate about developing and producing world-class, boundary-pushing visual performance work in the Solent (where we are based), UK and globally.
Our mission is to:
Connect artists, programmers and communities across local and global borders and inspire cross-cultural exchange.
Discover and develop new artistic talent on our doorstep and across the globe through a producing model that centres innovation, risk and careful collaboration.
Produce world-class, boundary-pushing artworks, performances and creative projects for and with communities and audiences of all nationalities and ages everywhere.
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Organisation
Nestegg Antiques
- Hampshire
Specialize in early English antique pottery dated 1740-1840 that includes antique toby jugs, salt glazed stoneware pottery, English delft, creamware, pearlware, Staffordshire pottery figures.
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Individual
C.Byrne
- Aldershot
Music producer with releases on labels such as Castles in Space. Up for collabs…
Contact me via my website below:
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Individual
Eleanor Hawkridge
- National
I’m an artist and creative producer with a wealth of experience of founding arts ventures and running arts venues, programmes, events, exhibitions and festivals – with a focus on fun and innovative approaches to animating underused spaces.
Most recently I’ve had the privilege of setting up Saint John’s Arts’ Programme, collaborating with a large Education Trust to provide new exciting opportunities for young people to get involved in the arts in Gosport.
I’ve also worked as Producer for Journeys Festival International, and held previous roles at ArtSpace Portsmouth, Liverpool Biennial and founded The Royal Standard (gallery, studios and social workspace), and Mighty Oak Creative Agency.
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Individual
Barbara Touati-Evans
- Aldershot |
- Farnborough |
- Hampshire
I am a visual artist who works across a range of media, originally crochet and textile but more recently in sculpture, installation and performance. I have a sensory approach to connecting to materials, most of them domestic recycled waste.
I am very interested in experimentation and cross collaborations with artists from other disciplines and also outside of the field of the arts.
Across the years, my practice has delved into the visual and metaphorical links between neuroscience and crochet, the cracking and transformations of womanhood after the menopause and more recently the opening and reconnecting to nature.
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Individual
Kelly Weston
- Aldershot |
- Farnborough |
- Hampshire
Hi I’m Kelly, a resin crafter (Resin Expectations), author (Beyond the Ordinary, Crafting in a Crisis, and Selling at Craft Events – A beginners Guide) and director of The Crafters Collective – Princes Mead Farnborough.
As a female, neurodivergent, creative business owner, my mission is to help people be their authentic selves. Whether that’s with my creations – inspired by goth, fantasy and steampunk genres – or giving other crafters a space to sell their work, and express themselves through their creations, I want to make the benefits of creativity accessible to all.
Crafting has been a focus throughout my life, whenever things have been difficult, and I want to share its mental health benefits with everyone.
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Jobs and commissions
The Crafters Collective Seller
- Aldershot |
- Farnborough |
- Hampshire
The Crafters Collective CIC
31.05.2025
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31.12.2025
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Organisation
The Crafters Collective CIC
- Aldershot |
- Farnborough |
- Hampshire
We believe in breaking the mould. We’re here to challenge the mass-produced, the impersonal, and the disposable by championing independent makers, fostering creativity, and creating a real, local alternative to online and high-street retail.
Our mission is to provide crafters with a space to sell their work without the barriers of traditional retail while ensuring customers can discover authentic, locally made goods and explore their own creativity through hands-on workshops. We curate a space where people can shop with confidence, knowing they are supporting real artisans and small businesses.
We empower people of all ages and backgrounds to explore their creative potential, and offer a relaxed pressure-free shopping experience.
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Individual
Maggie Rose
- Hampshire |
- National |
- Winchester
RADA and Lee Strasberg trained actor living in Hampshire and London.
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Individual
Rebecca Godden
- Hampshire |
- National |
- Winchester
Rebecca Godden is a dynamic actor, director, and facilitator with over a decade of experience nationally and internationally. Rebecca holds a First Class BA Honours in Contemporary Performance from the University of Winchester, and is a regular actor and director at Hat Fair, Winchester. She currently collaborates with companies such as Blue Apple Theatre (Associate Director) Ubisoft/Hampshire Cultural Trust (878AD Actor), MN Academy (Filmmaking Facilitator) and Birmingham Stage (Show Facilitator). Passionate about storytelling, she’s at home performing, writing and directing. Her work blends live theatre, performing arts, and immersive/ site-specific performance. Rebecca produces and hosts the podcast, Part of The Arts.
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Individual
Emma Paxton
- Fareham |
- Gosport |
- Hampshire
Hello I’m Emma and I’m a Graphic Recorder and Illustrator.
I create hand drawn visuals to capture content and tell stories – it’s my job to visualise your content so people love it, remember it, and keep coming back to it.
As a Graphic Recorder I draw live at events and meetings to capture the key ideas and outcomes.
As an Illustrator I create hand drawn digital images to tell stories and explain complex information.
My work is, colourful, fun and creative. It starts conversations and helps connect ideas and people. It’s mind-catching and memorable. It’s eye-catching, printable and easily shareable.
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Space
The Great Hall
- Winchester
Hampshire Cultural Trust
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Individual
Alia
- Fareham |
- Gosport
Fareham based photographer and videographer specialising in music and branding, helping musicians and brands with bringing their visions and brand to life.
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Space
Willis Museum and Sainsbury Gallery
- Basingstoke
Hampshire Cultural trust
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Space
Andover Museum
- Andover
Hampshire Cultural Trust
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Space
Allen Gallery
- Alton
Hampshire Cultural Trust
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Space
The Arc
- Winchester
Hampshire Cultural Trust
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Training
How to be an Effective Trustee
- Aldershot |
- Alton |
- Andover |
- Basingstoke |
- Eastleigh |
- Fareham |
- Farnborough |
- Gosport |
- Hampshire |
- National |
- Petersfield |
- Winchester
Action Together
10.06.2025
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10.06.2025
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Training
Build a website for your Social Enterprise
- Aldershot |
- Alton |
- Andover |
- Basingstoke |
- Eastleigh |
- Fareham |
- Farnborough |
- Gosport |
- Hampshire |
- National |
- Petersfield |
- Winchester
Action Together
19.06.2025
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19.06.2025
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Funding
Creative Enterprise Business Builder
- Aldershot |
- Alton |
- Andover |
- Basingstoke |
- Eastleigh |
- Fareham |
- Farnborough |
- Gosport |
- Hampshire |
- Petersfield |
- Winchester
Creative UK
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Jobs and commissions
Casual Technicians
- Hampshire
The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre
11.04.2025
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31.12.2025
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Funding
Trailblazer Fund
- Aldershot |
- Alton |
- Andover |
- Basingstoke |
- Eastleigh |
- Fareham |
- Farnborough |
- Gosport |
- Hampshire |
- National |
- Petersfield |
- Winchester
Youth Music
01.08.2025
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29.08.2025
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Event
Rebuild Creative Confidence
- Aldershot |
- Alton |
- Andover |
- Basingstoke |
- Eastleigh |
- Fareham |
- Farnborough |
- Gosport |
- Hampshire |
- Petersfield |
- Winchester
allthedays – Creative Workshops by Dave Norton
26.04.2025
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27.09.2025
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Space
Hampshire Record Office
- Winchester
Hampshire Archives
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Funding
Dayas Music Scholarship Fund
- Hampshire
HiWCF
13.01.2025
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26.10.2025
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Training
Artswork Priority Place Training
- Aldershot |
- Farnborough |
- Gosport
Artswork
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