Start Licensing wins Best Sector Support Partnership Award at Cultural Enterprises Awards for its work with The Ashmolean Museum

The Association for Cultural Enterprises has detailed the winners of this year’s Cultural Enterprises Awards.

The Cultural Enterprises Awards recognise commercial innovation and success, as well as best practice in environmental sustainability and equity, diversity and inclusion.

Start Licensing won the Best Sector Support Partnership Award for their work with The Ashmolean Museum. Start Licensing are the Ashmolean’s licensing agency and have worked with the Museum to create a wide reaching licensing programme that includes partners like Park Agencies, Atlantic Mats, Team Tea, Jericho Coffee Traders, Art & Hue and Graphenstone Paints.

“We were delighted to win this award,” said Ian Downes from Start Licensing.

“It was really welcome acknowledgement of our work with The Ashmolean. We have loved working with The Ashmolean and helping them grow their presence in the licensing sector. Licensing is very much a ‘team business’ and we feel this Award recognises the teamwork that goes into The Ashmolean programme which of course includes all the licensees and retailers who work with us”.

Cultural Enterprises CEO Gordon Morrison added: “Promoting commercial best practice within the cultural sector has never been more important given the urgent need for the sector to maximise income streams and identify new sources of money making.

“The Cultural Enterprises Awards are a brilliant platform to showcase commercial excellence within the cultural sector, and this year’s incredible winners offer a fantastic source of ideas and inspiration to help all types of cultural organisations maximise their income streams.”