Arts Development Company

We’re a social enterprise with a small core team and rotating field of specialist associates. We’re experts in using culture to make positive change, enabling people and places to flourish. We’re responsible for Dorset’s Cultural Strategy, which unites and harnesses the sector in shared ambitions. We have an excellent track record in the strategic development of culture, working collaboratively across the sector and with health, tourism and placemaking. We formed in 2015 as a spin-out from Dorset County Council. We’re both proudly committed to Dorset and driven to find new ways of operating. Based in the heart of Dorset, we operate from The Little Keep, a 150-year-old barracks that we now run as a creative workspace for artists, producers, and social enterprises.