The role of our Working Group is to work with other partner organisations to promote and celebrate Arts and Culture in the city and to help make Canterbury a more inspiring place to live, work and visit.

• Working with the Sidney Cooper Arts Trust (a charitable Trust number 1215959) with a view to restoring the currently empty Sidney Cooper building on St Peter’s Street as an Arts Centre for the people of Canterbury. For more information on Cooper and the Gallery visit bit.ly/ThomasSidneyCooper or contact the Sidney Cooper Arts Trust info@sidneycooperarts.org
• Working with the Sidney Cooper Arts Trust which organises talks & events promoting Canterbury-born artist Thomas Sidney Cooper, including publishing a new book on his work in 2025, by Darren Henley CEO of the Arts Council, and inaugurating an Annual Sidney Cooper lecture by prominent local artists.
• Working with Canterbury BID, Canterbury City Council and other arts and cultural organisations to make Canterbury a better place to live, work and visit.
• Organising a public lecture by the renowned under water sculptor and environmentalist Jason deCaires Taylor
• Representing the Canterbury Society at the CCC-led ‘Cultural Strategy Discussion Group’
• Working in partnership with The Beaney to discuss and promote arts and cultural events