Unboxed attracts fraction of target audience numbers
Nationwide festival Unboxed: Creativity in the UK has only reached a small portion of its intended audience, according to an inves…
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ACE refuses to release ‘sensitive’ race and disability documents
A Freedom of Information request to see the minutes of the funder's Race and Disability Advisory Group is denied on the basis…
Creative Scotland reopens touring fund
Creative Scotland’s Touring Fund for Theatre and Dance has opened for a seventh round, inviting applications from companies,…
Next Prime Minister urged to reform ACE
Equity calls on Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak to reform the system of arts councils across the UK and adopt regional structures, which…
HOME Slough opens applications for arts grants
HOME Slough has launched the On Your Doorstep programme, an arts grant funding scheme that aims to bring communities together thro…
Croydon criticised for insensitive name of arts fund
Croydon Council and Executive Mayor of Croydon Jason Perry have come in for criticism for the name of their new Ignite Fund a…
New funding round for British music exports
DCMS and the Department of International Trade have committed £500,000 in new funding for the Museum Export Growth Scheme (M…
Is ACE’s diversity strategy – and reporting – fit for purpose?
Reading ACE’s latest Equality, Diversity and Inclusion data report, it appears diversity is primarily seen as the number of…
What will the next Prime Minister mean for the arts?
With two of Boris Johnson’s most senior cabinet ministers left in the running to replace him, what might the arts sector exp…
Unlimited announces £584k disability arts programme
Disabled arts commissioning body Unlimited is partnering with 17 UK organisations to deliver a funding programme for disabled arti…
Historic England funds working class history projects
Historic England has awarded 57 projects a total of £774,000 from its Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class Hi…
McKellen reopens funding programme for producers
Actor Ian McKellen has announced a second round of his funding programme designed to help theatre producers pay actors a living wa…
Arts Council NI funding streams target individual artists
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has opened a range of funding programmes to support the work of individual artists as part of…
PRS offers grants for performance of contemporary orchestral works
PRS Foundation has announced the re-opening of its Resonate initiative, inviting UK orchestras to programme and perform the best B…
Freelands Foundation funds Black-led visual arts organisations
Freelands Foundation has awarded £608,000 in the form of seven new grants to small and medium-sized Black-led visual arts or…
DCMS launches consultation on how to spend dormant assets
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has launched a public consultation on what social and environmental ca…
ACE embeds health and wellbeing targets into delivery plan
The funder publishes a dedicated Creative Health & Wellbeing plan, which includes a commitment to develop the use of arts and…
Arts Council of Wales begins review into funding process
Arts Council of Wales (ACW) has opened a consultation into the way it allocates its funding to arts organisations. Known as The In…
Successful CDF bids share commitment to cultural legacy
Local authorities in the areas of the seven funded projects in Cultural Development Fund round two are found to have strong cultur…
‘Strong case’ for ACE to increase creative grant limits
Independent evaluation of ACE programme supporting individual creatives to work on personal projects suggests £2,000 increas…
Sudanese museums demand return of artefacts
Three Sudanese museums that received £1 million in funding from the British Council are demanding the return of colonial art…
Resources for creative funding bids published
The Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre has published a collection of digital resources for local authorities consideri…
ACE to offer ‘wind down’ funding for unsuccessful NPOs
Arts Council England sets aside money to allow National Portfolio Organisations to close their operations or adopt a new business…
Royal Cornwall Museum at risk of closure
The Royal Cornwall Museum is at risk of closure after Cornwall Council rejected its funding bid. The local authority received 51 a…
