CREATIVE PRODUCTION
Campaigns, films, events, murals and cultural projects built with community at the centre.
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Cardiff, Wales
Culture × Community × Industry
Creative Circle CIC
MAKE ACCESS VISIBLE.
We create routes into the creative industries through real projects, public work, cultural partnerships and paid opportunities.
SOL BAMBA
MURAL
MURAL
IBY
TALKS
TALKS
01WHY WE EXIST
The problem isn't a lack of talent.
IT'S WHO GETS SEEN.
WHO GETS TRUSTED.
WHO GETS PAID.
Creative Circle is a Cardiff-based cultural development organisation built to shorten the distance between talent and opportunity.
We bring communities, artists, brands, institutions and industry into the same room — then turn that connection into something real.
02WHAT WE DO
NOT JUST
WORKSHOPS.
We make work that leaves a trace: portfolios, commissions, public moments, relationships and routes forward.
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT
Live briefs and creative development that treat young people as collaborators, not an audience.
↗CULTURAL CONSULTANCY
Helping organisations understand place, youth culture, representation and how to show up credibly.
↗SOCIAL VALUE DELIVERY
Turning investment and partnership commitments into visible, meaningful creative outcomes.
↗03SELECTED WORK
WORK THAT
MOVES PEOPLE.
Built where football, art, fashion, music, heritage and community overlap.
SOL
BAMBA
01
BAMBA
Sol Bamba Memorial Mural
A permanent public tribute shaped with young people, artists, football culture and the people closest to Sol's story.
View story ↗
IBY
TALKS
02
TALKS
IBY Talks
100+ people brought into National Museum Cardiff for talks, culture, connection and direct access to creative voices from Wales.
CIVIC
CULTURE
03
CULTURE
Culture in civic spaces
Putting emerging voices in rooms and institutions they are too often expected to admire from the outside.
RECLAIM DIGITAL ARCHIVE
MEMORY
IS ALSO
CULTURE. ARCHIVE × ORAL HISTORY × FILM × COMMUNITY ×
IS ALSO
CULTURE. ARCHIVE × ORAL HISTORY × FILM × COMMUNITY ×
RECLAIM
A living archive preserving community creativity, participant stories, films, oral histories and the work made through Creative Circle programmes.
Explore archive ↗04THE MODEL
A ROUTE,
NOT A ONE-OFF.
The point is progression. Every project should leave someone with more confidence, more work, more contacts or more opportunity than they had before.
DISCOVER
Find the voice, interest and ambition already there.
MAKE
Build through live projects and collaboration.
SHOW
Put the work in public and give it an audience.
PAY
Create commissions, credits and paid experience.
LEAD
Bring people back as collaborators and decision-makers.
05SELECTED IMPACT
people at IBY Talks 2026
Creative Steps project award
youth-focused project funding
permanent Sol Bamba landmark
Selected project figures. Our full impact story is bigger than numbers: it is who gets a first credit, who gets paid, who gets seen and who gets invited back.
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DON'T ASK YOUNG PEOPLE TO IMAGINE A CREATIVE CAREER. PUT THEM CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH ONE.
Creative Circle Cardiff
06BUILT THROUGH COLLABORATION
Arts Council of Wales
Cardiff City FC
Amgueddfa Cymru
Cardiff Rugby
Cardiff & Vale College
New Balance
Selected collaborators, supporters and project relationships across Creative Circle's work.
BRANDS · FUNDERS · COMMUNITIES · CULTURAL ORGANISATIONS · CREATIVES
LET'S MAKE
SOMETHING
MATTER.
Have a brief, opportunity or idea that could create real cultural and social value?
hello@creativecircle.studio ↗