| Manchester 2023 ISPA - Lizzie Crump |
![]() Lizzie CrumpUK Strategic Lead Lizzie Crump runs What Next?, the UK’s largest free-to-access arts and cultural movement. It brings people together from all areas of the sector to debate and shape the future of the arts and culture in the UK. Lizzie is passionate about creating new ways of working and thinking; about partnership, conversation and collaboration. Lizzie has worked for a local authority, for Arts Council England, as Cultural Advisor to Partnerships for Schools (now part of the Department of Education), as an associate with the Innovation Unit and as a freelance consultant. For 12 years, 2010 – 2022 she was the Co-Director of the Cultural Learning Alliance (CLA), a collective voice working to ensure that all children and young people have meaningful access to culture. She is a Visiting Engagement Fellow at Kings College London. Lizzie was the 2011/12 Clore Leadership Learning Fellow, and is a governor of Leyton Sixth Form College. During the pandemic of 2021, she received an MBE for services to the arts. Speaker |