The register
Activate Performing Arts is licensed to sponsor workers on Creative Worker. The organisation is based in Dorchester, Dorset and has held its place on the register since at least 2026. The register records its rating as Temporary Worker (A rating).
Activate Performing Arts is the registered name (Companies House number 03439777), a company limited by guarantee on the register since 1997. The registered office is at 7-9 The Little Keep, Barrack Road, Dorchester, DT1 1SQ, DT1 1SQ. By its SIC codes the business is in arts, sport and leisure. It has traded under other names before, including Dorset Dance Forum.
Holding a licence is the expensive, slow part done. For Activate Performing Arts the question each time is only whether the role and the pay fit the current rules, and that is checked per vacancy.