Margate Creative Land Trust

Who we are

Margate is home to a burgeoning creative community and has been identified as a key production hub within the Thames Estuary Production Corridor. Whilst creative businesses have grown by 158% since 2009, Margate has lost 11% of its commercial spaces in the last 20 years. When coupled with rising rents for the remaining eligible spaces and a lack of appropriate venues for the variety of artistic pursuits, there is a vital and urgent need to provide space to creative practitioners in order to protect and grow the creative industries in Margate. Taking inspiration from the model developed in London for a Creative Land Trust to protect creative space in central London when property values are rising, the role of the Trust in Margate is ensuring that creative space and programming is inclusive and supports underserved communities to access opportunities within the creative industries of leadership, jobs, training and enterprise development.

Our culture and values

Open & inclusive: We are friendly, approachable, accessible and seek to work collaboratively and in partnership. We will design ways to ensure we meaningfully and regularly engage with the communities we serve.

Innovative: We know we must play the long game to have lasting impact, but we are not afraid to test or pilot radical ideas in the short term. We are ambitious and we will disrupt the status quo to ensure more underrepresented groups benefit from creative sector opportunities.

Sustainable: We are a commercially sound, environmentally and socially responsible organisation and we champion this within the sector

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

Margate Creative Land Trust is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that decisions concerning recruitment, promotion, dismissal or any other aspect of employment will be based on the needs of the business and not any assumptions based on sex, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, married or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. This is an important commitment, which all employees are expected to share.