Peckham Platform | Who we are

Peckham Platform is a creative and educational charity based in Peckham, south London. We bring local communities together with leading artists to co-produce social art that responds directly to the needs and concerns of the people involved.

We commission new work, run workshops, talks and exhibitions and provide progression routes for young people. For each new artist commission we work with people in our community to jointly identify themes, develop a brief and select artists. The group then collaborates with the artist to create new work. The model of joint decision-making continues right through to the exhibition, installation or event.

Our Programme

Our artistic programme strives to be both relevant and useful to artists and the communities with whom we work. Reflecting our values and concerns as a cultural organisation with a civic duty. We are committed to community-led co-commissioning and creating a genuinely collaborative process.

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Our Impact

Our Impact Reports reflect on the difference we have made to the people we are working with and the issues that we are responding to. See our 2020-2021 Impact Report.

What is social art?

Socially engaged art can be broadly defined as what happens when artists work with people in the co-creation of a public outcome. In the context of Peckham Platform, this means that we support artists to work with Peckham’s communities in the process of making something together.

image of a group of people taking part in an art session around a table with Peckham Platforme

Vision

Our vision is to create a connected society by working with communities and artists.

Mission

Our mission is to create opportunities for artists and communities to come together and creatively explore and respond to political issues that matter people in Peckham.

Values

Our Pledge

We stand together

Addressing racial inequality has always been an important element of Peckham Platform’s work. We work holistically across all aspects of our organisation to dismantle racial inequality.

On 3 June 2020 Peckham Platform made a public statement voicing our grief and anger during a time of collective mourning and action.

Events in the UK and beyond have exposed the extent of systemic and institutional racism, leading us to deepen our commitment to address the structural inequities of how we operate as an organisation.

As part of this process we pledge to:

Actively work to diversify our senior leadership and ensure that the artistic vision and governance of Peckham Platform is relevant to the needs of contemporary society and the communities of colour we serve
Advocate for and support change across the creative sector. This includes asking our funders to financially support deep institutional change and encouraging the wider cultural sector to address the depth of institutional racism within their own organisations
Encourage younger people of colour to enter the creative sector through support and mentoring Progress those already in the sector through leadership roles and other avenues of personal and professional development
Embed anti-racism into all our work and artistic programme
Provide a publicly accessible archive to promote anti-racism and black activism in the arts
Review policies, procedures and recruitment processes
Promote respect, self-care and positive wellbeing as central to the work of dismantling racism

We are continuously revising and working to deliver this pledge. We are evolving our pledge to be accountable and to reflect where we are at as an organisation.

Read in our 2020-21 Impact Report about the action we have taken.

From 2021 our Annual Reports document our progress on actions taken to deliver our pledge.

Meet the team

Our dynamic team includes producers, curators, artists and entrepreneurs from our local community

Meet the Team

Our Space

We operate from Peckham, south London, and currently don’t have a permanent home. Instead we use a range of sites, locations and venues to display public artwork throughout Peckham, collaborating with local partner organisations to hold workshops and events.

Our Future

Securing a physical venue for Peckham Platform and our communities to engage creatively with social art is more vital than ever in the wake of COVID-19. In 2025 we are launching a new home on Peckham Square that we hope will become a space for connection for everyone in Peckham, putting culture and creativity at the heart of our area’s future recovery.

While work is underway, we’ll be delivering events and installations in different venues across Peckham – sign up to our newsletter to receive all our news.

If you would like to get involved or hear more, please contact us at info@peckhamplatform.com

Our History

Peckham Platform today is the result of many years of bringing together artists and communities in an open ended conversation about how art can help us build a better, more connected society. Set up in 2006 by Emily Druiff, the organisation is embedded in Peckham, south London

From 2005 to now – our history timeline

Partners

Peckham Platform is committed to working in close consultation with its partners to provide young people and residents of Peckham with direct contact to artists and positive creative experiences. We aim to develop partnerships with organisations that prioritise education, creativity and social art as key objectives and that are either geographically located close to Peckham Square, London SE15 or benefit local communities.

Funders

We are grateful for the funding and support we have received over the past years which has enabled us to deliver our vision, mission and programme of activities. A special thanks goes to our current and past funders: AHRC Royal Holloway, ArtFund, Artquest, Arts Awards, Arts Council England, Charter House Southwark, Cleaner Greener Safer LBS, David Family Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Heritage Lottery Fund, Horniman Museum, Jonathan Ruffer, Local Trust ‘Creating Civic Change’, Queen Mary University of London, Neighbourhood Fund LBS, Newcomen Collett Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Riva, Southwark Council, St Olaves and St Saviours School Foundation, Sustrans, The Big Lottery, The Grocers Charity and all those who have supported us through individual donations and gifts.

Artists

Meet the socially engaged artists working with our communities in Peckham

All Artists

Donate

We are a registered charity and all donations go towards running our programme of activities.

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Who we are