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Top 25 Arts companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 4,029 arts companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 47,680 professional contacts across them, including 12,293 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers arts companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest arts companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 1,225 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The National Theatre makes theatre that entertains and inspires using its creativity, expertise and unique reach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 868 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We champion, develop and invest in artistic and cultural experiences that enrich people's lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 735 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Royal Shakespeare Company is a leading global theatre company that sparks local, national and international conversations that build connections, create opportunities and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 584 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Barbican is a multi-arts, learning, and conference centre in the City of London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 480 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre and the heart of London’s cultural life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Pauline Quirke Academy is a weekend performing arts academy providing tuition for children and young people from 4-18 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 345 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “English National Opera is the national opera company dedicated to creating extraordinary encounters with opera, on stage and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 340 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Inventing tomorrow together.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 325 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We have three venues in London – Sadler’s Wells Theatre & Lilian Baylis Studio in Angel, Peacock Theatre in the West End and Sadler's Wells East in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 322 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Owned by theatrical visionary Andrew Lloyd Webber – who has created some of the world’s most popular and timeless musical productions – we know a thing or two about staging the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 311 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Glyndebourne – situated on the edge of the South Downs National Park in East Sussex – is recognised internationally as one of the world’s leading opera houses; a reputation that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Somerset House is a new kind of arts centre in the heart of London, designed for today’s audiences and creatives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 270 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Roundhouse is a hub of inspiration where artists and emerging talent create extraordinary work and where young people can grow creatively as individuals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Opera North is England’s national opera company in the North and one of Europe’s leading arts organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 234 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “National Youth Theatre was established in 1956 as the first youth theatre in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 232 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Birmingham Hippodrome is one of the UK’s busiest and most vibrant arts venues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 228 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Place, London’s creative powerhouse for dance development, has been leading the way in dance training, creation and performance for 50 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mountview is a world-class leader in UK drama training dedicated to developing actors, actor musicians, musical theatre performers, production technicians, stage managers and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 208 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded by Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire in 2017, Trafalgar Entertainment is an award-winning global live-entertainment business focussed on new productions, venue…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 206 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Salford and proud.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Royal Ballet School is one of the world’s most celebrated centres for classical ballet training.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welsh National Opera transforms lives through the power of opera.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 199 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Small, independent theatre production company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 193 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are English National Ballet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: arts companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names arts companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of arts companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name arts companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Arts companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 4,029 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among arts companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “arts companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names arts companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among arts companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 12,293 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Arts companies by metro
- Arts companies in London1194
- Arts companies in Manchester97
- Arts companies in Edinburgh67
- Arts companies in Liverpool62
- Arts companies in Bristol61
- Arts companies in Birmingham56
- Arts companies in Glasgow50
- Arts companies in Leeds48
- Arts companies in Cardiff39
- Arts companies in Belfast38
- Arts companies in Newcastle Upon Tyne36
- Arts companies in Nottingham36
- Arts companies in Sheffield34
- Arts companies in Brighton33
- Arts companies in Leicester27
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names arts companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many arts companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 4,029 arts companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Cloud Solution Provider, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most arts companies?
London leads with 1194 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (97) and Edinburgh (67).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 12,293 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 4,029 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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