Art and Culture

This dataset supports the Mayor's equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategy published in 2018. It brings together publicly available data relevant to equalities in London into a series of measures. These will be updated over time to monitor the delivery of the strategy. After the Covid-19 pandemic struck in 2020, there was a need to capture and bring together appropriate data and research to monitor London through the recovery pe...

The GLA Grants Dataset contains data relating to grants which have been awarded by the GLA since 2013. The dataset uses the 360 Giving Standard, to ensure the data is clear and accessible. This dataset can also be accessed on the 360 giving navigation site GrantNav, which allows grant-makers and others to explore how grants are used, areas of commonality between grant-makers and gaps that are not reached by grant-makers. Potential grant...

The data contained in this repository relates to London's Creative Enterprise Zones. It can be used to review job and business data for each CEZ, as well as several other creative areas across London. About the data Sectors The data relates specifically to creative sector SIC codes (standard industrial classification) as defined by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The list of SIC codes is provided in the repo...

OPDC is a Mayoral Development Corporation, established by the Mayor of London with a statutory objective to secure the regeneration of our area, which spans across three London boroughs – Ealing, Brent and Hammersmith & Fulham. Our area includes the vast Park Royal industrial estate, the Old Oak development area around the new High Speed 2 Old Oak Common interchange, and the protected 67 hectares of parkland at Wormwood Scrubs.

London’s first Cultural Infrastructure Map brings together new research and information that has previously not existed in one place. It plots the location of cultural infrastructure and enables the user to view it alongside useful contextual data. This page contains cultural infrastructure data sets collected from summer 2024 to summer 2025 and published in 2024 and 2025. Data sets are uploaded as they become available over this period...

In 2018-19 the GLA first undertook a Survey of Londoners. At the time it provided vital evidence on Londoners that had never been collected before in such detail.  In 2021-22, the GLA conducted another Survey of Londoners, following the same methodology as the Survey of Londoners 2018-19, an online and paper self-completion survey of adults aged 16 and over in London. The survey, which received responses from 8,630 Londoners, aimed to a...

This dataset was collated to provide evidence for supporting and investing in the high growth fashion design and manufacturing sector in the Thames Estuary region. This evidence base was created as part of a research commission funded by MHCLG in 2020, which set out to make a case for investment in cultural infrastructure across the region.  This document provides a summary of the fashion design and manufacturing sector research undert...

This dataset was collated to provide evidence for supporting and investing in the high growth screen industries sector in the Thames Estuary region. This evidence base was created as part of a research commission funded by MHCLG in 2020, which set out to make a case for investment in cultural infrastructure across the region.  This document provides a summary of the screen industries sector research undertaken from July to December 20...

As part of the Cultural Infrastructure Plan, an annual audit of pubs using the Inter-Departmental Business Register data is produced. The overall number of pubs in London has remained largely unchanged since 2018. There were 3,535 pubs in London in 2023. Overall employee numbers increased in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic in 2020. In 2023, there were 49,000 jobs in London pubs, above the previous peak in 2020 at 48,000 jobs...

The GLA's City Intelligence Unit conducts research and analysis to understand the experiences of Londoners at night as well as the prevalence, characteristics, and experience of night time workers. The latest, December 2023, publication provides a glimpse into the next London At Night Evidence Base update, which will be published in the coming months. It reveals the latest headline findings about London’s night-time workforce. Previous...