How cultural placemaking promotes inclusive growth and investment

28th September 2026

12:15 – 13:15

Room 4A, Liverpool Experience Campus (formerly ACC)

Join East Bank partners for a drop-in lunch reception exploring how creative clustering in the UK’s newest cultural quarter is fuelling the national conversation on inclusive growth. Hear from cultural leaders and policymakers on what investment in creativity delivers in return – from economic growth to improved health and inclusion outcomes.

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Partners

Speakers

Uma Kumaran MP

Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

MP for Stratford and Bow

Dr Simon Opher MP MBE

Chair, Creative Health APPG

MP for Stroud

Tamsin Ace

Director, Eastbank

Sam Francis

Head of Academy Breakin’ Convention at Sadler’s Wells

Michelle May

Executive Director of Inclusive Growth, London Legacy Development Corporation

Professor Karen Stanton

Vice Chancellor, UAL

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