About Us
Attenborough Arts Centre is a leading centre for contemporary art, with a mission to make culture and creativity accessible to all.
Attenborough Arts Centre is one of the UK’s leading centres for art and culture. We bring leading local, regional, national and international artists to present their work in Leicester and engage with our diverse audiences.
Our mission is to make art accessible to all. We identify and remove barriers to inclusion to enable everyone to experience creativity and culture. We are a creative home for our communities, running participatory programmes which achieve over 24,000 engagements each year.
Based at the University of Leicester, Attenborough Arts Centre runs a range of arts and culture initiatives for our students and delivers the institution’s public programmes together with a range of partners, collectively engaging over 250,000 people annually.
We pioneer research in culture and creativity, championing the vital importance of art and creative thinking across society, including in social inclusion, education, health and wellbeing, digital culture, environmental sustainability and the economy. We champion innovation, supporting artists to develop their talent through commissioning and residency programmes.
We are grateful to the University of Leicester for their continued core funding, and to Arts Council England for their generous support of Attenborough Arts Centre as a National Portfolio Organisation using public funding. We are also thankful for project support from a range of funders including Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Art Fund.
