Museums to benefit from £4m improvement fund
Museums and galleries across England are receiving a share of £4m to improve displays, protect collections and make exhibiti…
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DCMS ‘overstated’ economic value of UNBOXED festival
Investigation of government's flagship UNBOXED festival finds it was given go-ahead despite an 'overstatement' of its…
Westminster Council pledges £1.8m funding for arts
Westminster City Council has announced it will set aside £1.8m for arts and culture funding over the next four years. The co…
British Council commits £14m to protect global heritage
The British Council has announced £14m of funding to protect international heritage at risk from factors including conflict…
NPO results: Implications for sector support
IPSOs will take over the role of current Sector Support Organisations, but with a renewed focus on Arts Council England’s In…
Northern Ireland brings artists into the classroom
Eleven schools in Belfast and Londonderry will receive funding enabling them to participate in a pioneering education programme in…
Grassroots call for radical change
New research that identifies how the pandemic heightened artists’ precarity highlights radically different perspectives for…
MPs to investigate Arts Council England funding decisions
Department for Digital Media and Sport Select Committee will hold an evidence session with Arts Council England's Chief Execut…
Responses to ACE National Portfolio funding expose systemic racism
ACE has pulled off a coup in racial and geographic equity. Kevin Osborne says now we need to fight to prevent any reversal of this…
MPs slam ACE’s ‘shameful’ funding decisions
MPs from across the political divide call for government intervention on Arts Council England's investment plans, suggesting t…
Good causes funding sees record return
The arts will benefit from a record return in Good Causes funding after The National Lottery announced its highest ever sales for…
Welsh National Opera to cease performances in Liverpool
Welsh National Opera has announced it will no longer tour in Liverpool because of cuts to its Arts Council England funding. The co…
Fewer than three million visited Unboxed in person
A £120m celebration of British creativity attracted a total of 2.8 million visitors, newly published audience data shows. As…
Operators of Nottingham Castle set for liquidation
Nottingham Castle has closed to visitors after the trust responsible for its operation revealed it is about to enter liquidation.&…
Controversial PwC contract has ‘commercial exploitation’ clause
Under terms of audience data contract issued by Arts Council England, permission could be granted for information collected b…
Henley defends ACE funding decisions
Amid protests against Arts Council England decision to cease funding a range of organisations through the National Portfolio, Chie…
Opera in need of a collective voice
As the dust settles on ACE's announcement of its new portfolio, Mark Pemberton unpacks the numbers to see what the outcome is…
Parliamentary committees moot alternatives for arts funding
Reports from cultural committees call for UK and Scottish governments to innovate new ways of funding arts and culture through the…
Jeremy Hunt urged to support orchestras in Autumn Statement
The Association of British Orchestras (ABO) has called on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to put in place measures to support the UK’…
NPO analysis: City of Culture bidders see funding uplifts
Most of the English towns and cities that applied to be the next UK City of Culture will see their amount of funding increase in t…
Call for ACE chair to resign over ENO cuts
Chair of Arts Council England Sir Nicholas Serota should resign over the decision to cut funding from the English National Opera (…
Fresh delay for Creative Scotland’s new funding framework
Creative Scotland has announced a further delay to the introduction of its new Future Funding Framework, which is intended to repl…
NPO decisions: Changes in regional funding distribution
The North of England and Midlands see notable increases, while London retains the largest share of the funding pot despite cuts.
NPO decisions: ENO ‘baffled and shocked’ by funding cut
Arts Council England's plans to cut English National Opera funding and move organisation out of London have been described as…
