Advocacy
At the Creative Skills Retail Council (CSRC), we believe advocacy should never come at a cost to our members - because when we advocate, everyone benefits.
Instead, membership provides opportunity to actively participate and help shape that advocacy through our projects, advisory groups, and committees.
By working side by side with members to identify issues, develop policy positions, and co-design initiatives, we ensure that every voice is heard and represented ensuring the future strength of the creative skills retail sector.
Our Purpose and Social Impact
Creativity = Skills
However you choose to work and wherever your skills take you. We champion the value of your creative skills.
Purpose: To position creative and technical expertise as retail business skills that are valued contributors to the national retail economy.
Impact: Research and data initiatives that inform policy and employment outcomes, raising recognition of creative and technical skills as professional retail services. By leading collaborative projects, research, stakeholder and policy engagement, CSRC supports business owners and entrepreneurs to thrive in future-focused environments that value both creativity and commercial acumen.
Capability = Workforce
Purpose: To build future-ready workforce capability founded on ethical and sustainable business practices and workplace culture.
Impact: Industry impact initiatives that improve knowledge and skills, compliance, professional standards and workforce well-being contributing to a robust talent pipe-line.
Change = Enrichment
Purpose: To leverage the life-changing power of creative skills to deliver community enrichment and social outcomes for good.
Impact: Supporting aligned community projects and partnerships that work to enrich vulnerable communities.