Selected Projects
Everyday Creativity: Discovery Process
NEA was jointly commissioned by two university research centres – the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing at the University of Brighton and the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health at Canterbury Christ…
House of Lords Select Committee on Seaside Towns
Nick Ewbank was delighted to be appointed as the Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on Regenerating Seaside Towns and Communities. Seaside towns are among the UK’s greatest assets, greatly loved by…
International Ceramics Centre (Advanced Ceramics Campus)
NEA was appointed by Staffordshire University and Arts Council England to carry out a Feasibility Study and Viability Assessment for a proposed International Ceramics Centre in Stoke-on-Trent. The City is known worldwide as The Potteries…
Creative Lives On Air National Roll-Out: Evaluating Impact
Creative Lives On Air is a partnership project, delivered by BBC Radio and Creative Lives (formerly Voluntary Arts), which stimulates engagement in creative activity in local communities by working through the medium of radio and…
Cultural Engagement for Wellbeing: Seed Award
At NEA we love to be at the cutting edge of research, new thinking and best practice – and to follow our passions. This has never been more the case than with the Cultural Engagement…
A House for Essex: site acquisition
We were engaged by Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture to assist with site analysis and acquisition for their programme of commissioning world-leading architects and designers to make exceptional examples of contemporary domestic dwellings, set in…
Strange Cargo
Strange Cargo is, according to Dr Stephen Deuchar, Director of The Art Fund, “a highly creative, deeply serious collective that is fundamentally committed to the parallel goals of making great works of art and also putting them…
Royal Crown Derby Museum
Royal Crown Derby is widely considered to be the oldest English porcelain manufacturer, dating back 270 years to the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, when the Midlands city of Derby was at the centre…
Maidstone: Culture & Heritage
Despite being the county town and the largest settlement in Kent, with a rich and diverse heritage, Maidstone is not widely recognised as a cultural centre. As part of a new strategic drive to strengthen…
Project Art Works
NEA carried out an Impact Analysis of the work of Project Art Works. This remarkable company, based in Hastings, East Sussex, transforms the lives of people with complex needs through innovative creative arts practice. Our…
Everyone an Artist?
NEA was commissioned by East Sussex County Council to organise and present Everyone An Artist? – a symposium investigating connections between culture, society and health & wellbeing. The event took place at the De La…
AHRC Cultural Value Report
In partnership with the internationally renowned Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, we launched the report Cultural Value and Social Capital at the House of Commons on 16 July 2014. The report…
De La Warr Pavilion
We undertook a ground-breaking study into the Social Capital generated by the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill. Our work helped the Pavilion prove its significance within the local community and to secure a seven…
Adventures In Regeneration
NEA’s unique approach was developed over the course of a decade of pioneering work in Folkestone, a coastal town on the south east tip of the UK. The story of the Folkestone project is told…