Reading Place of Culture: the impact of Covid-19 on arts organisations and how to help

A questionnaire was circulated amongst Reading’s arts organisations, producers and individual artists by Reading Place of Culture - a Reading UK, Reading Borough Council and Reading University partnership project. The aim was to record how the arts sector has been impacted by the pandemic and to find out what would be of most help in this situation.

30* art, culture and heritage (ACH) organisations responded to the questionnaire. The responses were gathered via Survey Monkey between 26th October 2020 and 7th November 2020 – almost all in the days preceding the second Covid lockdown in England.

*This total excludes a charity with multiple local programmes and a weekly community dance group that did not answer any questions beyond the description of their organisation.