Past ACCFs

National Director
Creative Partnerships, United Kingdom

Mr Collard is National Director of Creative Partnerships, the UK Government's flagship ￡36 million per year programme aimed at developing the creativity of young people. In 1987 Paul wrote a groundbreaking report for the UK government on the role the arts can play in economic and social regeneration, which stressed the importance of engaging local communities in regeneration strategies. Since then, he has been deeply involved in arts and regeneration strategies, working at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and British Film Institute in London, as Director of the UK Year of Visual Arts in the North East of England (1993-97) and Director of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in Connecticut, USA (1997-2001). He has served on the National Council of Arts Council England and as Chair of the Arts Council's regional board for the North East of England (2002-4).