SCALING UP AND REACHING OUT

For over four years, we’ve work with individuals, communities and organisations to advance visual storytelling in the UK, reaching in excess of 476,000 people in our mission to nurturing learning and growth through creation in the fine arts, moving image and performance.

Partnerships are the lynchpin of our work, from ideation and planning through to delivery. We’d have it no other way. Here are just a few, all of which enable, encourage and require strong public engagement to realise success…and to make significant impact on the creative health and social wellbeing of others.

OPEN CALL FOR EXHIBITORS - Fine artists and moving-image makers

Small Blue Dot, Espacio Gallery, 159 Bethnal Green Rd, London, UK E2 7DG | 20th - 25th August 2026

We’re delighted to be collaborating with Painting Progress to curate their upcoming summer exhibition, Small Blue Dot.

Painting Progress is a non-profit arts organisation that uses art to support wellbeing, inclusion and access via a ever-diversifying programme of community workshops and public exhibitions.

Like us, the nurturing of human and social capital through artistic creation and celebration is at their core.

Small Blue Dot will feature work from creatives whose work responds to:

• Climate change and environmental transformation

• The relationship between people and nature

• Injustice and inequality

• Access to resources and environmental responsibility

• The impact of human activity on ecosystems

• Care, repair, and regeneration

• The connections between local experiences and global systems

Artists, makers and creatives at all stages of their practice and working across visual-storytelling disciplines are encouraged to apply.

Deadlines and submission details
Artist film & moving image - 19th July 2026 at 11:59 pm - Apply via Jotform: https://pci.jotform.com/form/261195336783061

All other visual art forms - 16th June 2026 - Apply via Painting Progress: https://www.paintingprogress.org.uk/submit-your-work

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST - Inaugural Auction Fundraiser for LGBTQIA+ Media Charity

London, UK | 27th November - 1st December 2026

Pride Wide is a non-profit publisher, broadcaster and growth consultancy advancing LGBTQIA+ rights and lives across the globe. It provides fact-checked information, telling human stories to win hearts and minds and advance the social and political liberties.

It will be holding its inaugural auction at the end of the year, a fundraising initiative that would enable the organisation to extend its impact and reach, including:

Representation: Providing a cultural initiative and visual platform for LGBTQIA+ narratives through authenticity and inclusivity.

Engagement: Creating a platform through art that connects the public, institutions, sponsors, donors and community events.

Empowerment: Supporting artists from different backgrounds and fostering new dialogues between the LGBTQIA+ community, institutions and the public.

Impact: Generating funds through art sales, donorship, sponsorship and events, directly funding Pride Wide’s mission and work.  

A percentage of the proceeds (from the silent and in-person auctions) will be contributed to Packed Lunch's own charitable work in nurturing learning and growth through creation and, more broadly, advancing visual storytelling.

The remainder will support the critical mission and aims of Pride Wide, registered as a charity in England and Wales (1208890).

Might you be interested in supporting with an art donation to the cause? 

If you’re seeking an additional platform to exhibit your art and push your creative practice, and would like to be an integral part of building Pride Wide’s reach and impact across the globe by donating a piece for this initiative… 

Treasurer - Board of Trustees

Are you passionate about the arts and their impact on human and social capital. If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Packed Lunch trustees are volunteers who bring their skills and expertise, networks and passions to bear in furthering our charitable mission, and they are vital to governance.

We're currently recruiting a Treasurer, someone with experience of charity governance in the UK.

If you're interested in working with a young organisation with a passion and purpose for advancing visual storytelling by nurturing learning and growth through creation (and in being integral to defining its growth and direction), get in touch!

We're accepting expressions of interest until 11:59 pm on Thursday, 30th July 2026.