Disconnected Bodies -

Arts & Culture Social Enterprise 2025 Winner

We’re proud to have won the Arts and Culture Social Enterprise 2025 (London) Award, recognising our commitment to meaningful cultural engagement across the UK.

Arts audience development

We help people choose, create, and take part in bold and brilliant arts experiences through audience strategies that lead to cultural transformation.

Cultural access and democratising the arts

The arts must remain a force for public good; tackling industry gate-keeping and discriminatory practices to amplify voices.

Cultural engagement to secure funding

We work for those who are looking to secure grant funding. Individuals and projects of all scales are supported with KPI-led bid writing guidance.

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Changing the face of cultural audience engagement

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Across the United Kingdom, Europe and Africa

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Free advice provided in 2025

Audiences reached in 2025

National and international research projects in 2025

Shaping THe UK’s cultural future

Our cultural engagement expertise has contributed to policy change for two decades, with our contribution to the Arts Council England and DCMS 2025 reviews influencing the national conversation on cultural access and creative participation; we frequently setting the standard for engagement practice.

Read our contribution to the ACE 2025 Review >

Audience Profiling

Access a database of over 3000 profiles that offer a clear introduction to audience identification; helping projects, regardless of budget or staffing, successfully reach and engage their intended audiences with depth and impact.

Bespoke Data Collection

We create tailored methodologies and template surveys to understand arts audiences, with optional in-venue data collection, delivering accurate insights into the impact and value of public engagement.

Strategic Engagement Planning

We provide strategic audience development plans, ideal for ACE NPOs, that clarify goals, broaden participation, and offer a clear, actionable road map for impactful engagement and marketing.

Research and Evaluation

Our people-centred, dialogue-driven methods deliver authentic insights and foster reflection, to empower communities, especially place-making projects, through our engagement expertise and curiosity-driven approach.

Unlock the secret psychology of arts audiences

Transformative audience development strategies

Ground-breaking, insight-led frameworks redefining audience engagement beyond anything available worldwide.

20 years in the making, 3000 psycho-segmented profiles

Long-term research and large-scale profiling unlocking deeper audience understanding, engagement, and measurable outcomes.

41,000 audience interactions, 150 strategic models and frameworks

Extensive real-world interactions and frameworks translating insight into powerful audience engagement strategies

Disconnected Bodies’ Sandbox Toolkit

Sandbox moves past Audience Agency segmentation and reveals how cultural audiences think, act, and engage; transforming cultural strategy forever. Exclusive to Disconnected Bodies.

Master Arts Audience Psychology and Engagement

Book a free
30-minute video consultatioN

Speak with Disconnected Bodies’ Founder Pablo Colella for free, no strings attached advice.

Book a day and time that suits you then leave it to us to get you moving past sticking points and towards your goals.

Don’t want to wait? Give our team a call on
020 3633 7617

Excellence & SOLUtions: 2025 Clients and Partners

Our work reflects strong partnerships built on trust, innovation, and shared vision. Thank you to our clients and partners for being part of the journey.

6 funding body partners

Arts Council England, The National Heritage Fund, The National Lottery Community Fund, PRS, The British Council and Erasmus+.

4 international partners

Working to improve creative education in Africa, cross sector programmes in Finland and two European touring exhibitions.

6 government and council commissions

Advising on place-making and social impact projects across England, Scotland and Wales.

DisconnectedBodies

Art without engagement moves nobody.

Arts & Culture Social Enterprise 2025 Winner

Changing the face of cultural audience engagement

Across the United Kingdom, Europe and Africa

Free advice provided in 2025

Audiences reached in 2025

National and international research projects in 2025

Shaping THe UK’s cultural future

Unlock the secret psychology of arts audiences

Disconnected Bodies’ Sandbox Toolkit

Book a free
30-minute video consultatioN

Speak with Disconnected Bodies’ Founder Pablo Colella for free, no strings attached advice.

Book a day and time that suits you then leave it to us to get you moving past sticking points and towards your goals.

Don’t want to wait? Give our team a call on
020 3633 7617

Excellence & SOLUtions: 2025 Clients and Partners

Arts Council England funded clients

Heritage Fund funded clients

Arts Council England NPO clients

Higher and Further Education clients

Art without engagement moves nobody.

Arts & Culture Social Enterprise 2025 Winner

Changing the face of cultural audience engagement

Across the United Kingdom, Europe and Africa

Free advice provided in 2025

Audiences reached in 2025

National and international research projects in 2025

Shaping THe UK’s cultural future

Unlock the secret psychology of arts audiences

Disconnected Bodies’ Sandbox Toolkit

Book a free30-minute video consultatioN

Speak with Disconnected Bodies’ Founder Pablo Colella for free, no strings attached advice. Book a day and time that suits you then leave it to us to get you moving past sticking points and towards your goals.Don’t want to wait? Give our team a call on 020 3633 7617

Excellence & SOLUtions: 2025 Clients and Partners

Arts Council England funded clients

Heritage Fund funded clients

Arts Council England NPO clients

Higher and Further Education clients

Book a free
30-minute video consultatioN

Speak with Disconnected Bodies’ Founder Pablo Colella for free, no strings attached advice.

Book a day and time that suits you then leave it to us to get you moving past sticking points and towards your goals.

Don’t want to wait? Give our team a call on
020 3633 7617