A 2008 survey found that 564,000 people had unpaid management roles in voluntary arts groups, often involving a high level of time, expertise and commitment.
Our Creative Talent: the voluntary and amateur arts in England, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Arts Council England (ACE), July 2008

In 2008 it was stated that over the past five years, 34% of amateur arts groups in England had members who went on to work professionally.
Our Creative Talent: the voluntary and amateur arts in England, DCMS and ACE, July 2008

A 2008 survey stated that there was a mutually reciprocal relationship between the amateur and professional arts sectors in England, with amateur groups spending £125 million on hiring professional artists.
Our Creative Talent: the voluntary and amateur arts in England, DCMS and ACE, July 2008

A 2008 report by the London Development Agency stated that 33% of jobs in music and the visual and performing arts were based in London, 54% of Radio and Television jobs, 42% of film and video jobs, and 18% of arts and antique jobs. Overall a quarter of people employed in the creative industries worked in London.
London: A Cultural Audit, London Development Agency, 2008

In 2005-06 ACE regularly funded organisations employed 15,500 permanent staff and 33,000 contractual staff. 17,900 people assisted with the work of regularly funded organisations on a voluntary basis.
Regularly funded organisations: key data from the 2005/06 annual submission, ACE, July 2007

In 2005-06, of the 15,000 permanent staff and 33,000 contractual staff employed by ACE's regularly funded organisations, 9,600 were offered development training. 86% of regularly funded organisations offered this service.
Regularly funded organisations: key data from the 2005/06 annual submission, ACE, July 2007

After falling for four years after 2001, total creative employment in London upturned again in 2005.
Measuring Creativity: 2006 update of the GLA's creative industry economic data, Greater London Authority, 2006, cited in Staying Ahead: the economic performance of the UK's creative industries, The Work Foundation for DCMS, 2007

In 2004, the creative industries represented London's third largest employment sector, with 525,000 people working directly in the creative industries or in creative occupations in other sectors.
London Cultural Capital; Realising the potential of a world-class city, Greater London Authority, 2004

In 2004 one in seven jobs in London was in the creative sector.
London's Creative Sector, GLA, 2004, quoted in Publicly-funded culture and the creative industries, John Holden/Demos for ACE, June 2007

In 2003, it was reported that 25% of those employed in cultural occupations live within greater London, compared to 10% of those in non-cultural occupations.
Artists in Figures, ACE, August 2003

In 2003, the average gross weekly earnings for employees across all cultural occupations were £368 (under £20,000 per annum), higher than the non-cultural average of £290 (around £15,000 per annum).
Artists in Figures, ACE, August 2003

In 2003 it was estimated that self-employed workers in cultural occupations were twice as likely to have second jobs as those in non-cultural employment (10% compared with 5%). 
Artists in Figures, ACE, August 2003

It was stated in 2003 that cultural employees generally earned less than their occupational equivalents in non-cultural jobs (associate professional and technical positions). Musicians were among the worst paid employees and actors among the best. Cultural employees were half as likely to claim state benefits, excluding Child Benefit, than non-cultural employees (4% compared with 8%), although self-employed cultural employees were more likely to do so (13% compared with 8%).
Artists in Figures, ACE, August 2003

The relative earning position of those in cultural occupations dropped from 21% to 6% in inner London between 1991 and 2001.
London Cultural Capital; Realising the potential of a world-class city, Greater London Authority, 2004

The creative industries accounted for between a fifth and a quarter of job growth in London between 1995 and 2001.
The Creative Economy Programme: A Summary of Projects Commissioned in 2006/07, DCMS, August 2007

Between 1995 and 2001 London's creative industries grew faster than any other major industry except the financial and business sector, and accounted for between 20 and 25% of job growth in London during this period.
Staying Ahead: the economic performance of the UK's creative industries, The Work Foundation for DCMS, 2007