Lara Monro is a creative strategist, writer and funding consultant working with creative practitioners and collectives at the point where an idea becomes a project. Her practice is editorial: she works closely with her clients to sharpen what they're making and why, then helps them shape, position and resource it, whether through public funding, a commission, or a new direction entirely.

A particular passion within Lara's practice is her access support work with neurodivergent and disabled creative practitioners. Working as a bid writer and Access Support Worker, she specialises in removing barriers that prevent individuals from processing ideas and accessing the funding and opportunities available to them. Since April 2026 alone, she has raised £90,000 in public arts and culture grants for access clients.

She draws on more than a decade of editorial and strategic work across the UK arts and culture sector, including as Editor at Large (UK/Europe) for the LA-based arts publication Autre, studio and project manager for practitioners, and affiliate mentor with Ceri Hand and the Creative Mentor Network. She has worked with galleries and organisations including White Cube, The Dot Project, Open Space and Work Show Grow.

Since establishing her online platform, Working With, in 2023, Lara has supported over 500 artists to develop and realise their ideas, turinging them into funded projects. Collectively, her clients have secured more than £800,000 in public investment.

She regularly delivers workshops with collectives and organisations including I Like Networking, Make Your Own Masters, V&A Young People, Art Meets Culture and Sheroes.

In 2026, Lara was awarded an Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice grant to support her own step change, developing a creative health practice at the intersection of trauma and justice. Her writing has been published in The Times, and she attended the Eileen Shona Writing Residency in Scotland, where she began work on her first manuscript.

Take a look at the creative practitioners Lara has worked with, learn of monthly creative opportunities and get tips and tricks for developing your creative ideas, projects and funding applications via the Working With Instagram…