Cultural Playing Field

Cultural Playing Field looks at how to develop an enabling environment to encourage people to participate in the arts and crafts. The focus is on political, legal, policy and funding issues that affect voluntary and amateur arts organisations and individual arts participants in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. We hope you will join the debate …

Robin Simpson has been Chief Executive of the Voluntary Arts Network since September 2005.  Before joining VAN he was Deputy Chief Executive of Making Music – the national the national umbrella body for amateur music making – and previously General Manager of The British Federation of Festivals. A keen amateur French horn player, Robin is currently a member of the Northampton Symphony Orchestra. Robin is a perennial ballroom dancing student, a frequent theatre-goer, an enthusiastic reader of contemporary fiction and an insatiable consumer of classical and world music.