Have you experienced difficulties with banking for your creative group?

Creative Lives is concerned about the reduction in banking services and administrative delays by banks that are having a negative impact of the work of local creative groups.

We have heard about problems with banking services directly from creative groups, and recently the charity regulators in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland wrote to the Chief Executives of UK Banks highlighting the issues, which have seen groups having their accounts closed or suspended for long periods and often without notice.

Creative Lives is keen to understand the scale of this challenge for local creative groups.

We asked creative groups to complete a short survey about barriers to banking to inform our campaigning and advocacy work. This survey is now closed, and we are currently planning our next steps.