Speaker Profile: Natalie Chan

Natalie is an award-winning arts fundraiser and producer from Hong Kong and working in the UK. She is a recipient of the Stage One Producers’ Bursary; Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Fund, Film and TV Charity’s Sir Horace Ové Grant and Screenskills Bursary.

She raised commercial investment and was Associate Producer for Best of Enemies by James Graham in the West End. With ambition for inclusivity, she was Agent for Change for Artistic Directors of the Future where she researched and evidenced hidden barriers faced by Global Majority practitioners, and made cases for change and peer to peer support.She was Executive Director for Streatham Space Project in 2024 where leadership meant accurate financial forecasts, responsible decision-making, orderly programme wind down and staff redundancies. She successfully raised emergency funding.  Previously, as General Manager for Creative Youth, where she won the Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy’s Giving Tuesday Competition for Digital Innovation. She is also a recipient of the Blackbaud Scholarship for achieving the Postgraduate Certificate in Philanthropic Studies at the University of Kent.

She’s currently Arts and Culture Project Commissioner for Luton Council.