ACE grants just one third of emergency funds, holds on to £56.9m
The funder says 95 National Portfolio Organisations that applied “were not able to demonstrate they needed urgent funding&rd…
The funder says 95 National Portfolio Organisations that applied “were not able to demonstrate they needed urgent funding&rd…
Sector leaders have responded with a mixture of relief and gratitude for a Government package that will secure the medium-term fut…
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop has announced a Performing Arts Venues Relief Fund that will “meet the immediate needs”…
Although museums and galleries in England and Scotland can prepare to reopen, the performing arts remain in lockdown and fea…
Two-thirds of organisations and almost three quarters of individuals who applied to Arts Council England for emergency funds were…
Arts Council England is preparing to “make changes to Grantium where we can”, including an improved user interface, bu…
Scotland appears to be the first country in the UK to make a direct Government loan to ensure a cultural organisation can survive…
Furloughed arts employees across the country are being warned of job losses as the next stage of the furlough scheme is deemed &ld…
The sources of money available to the cultural sector have changed significantly over the past decade but the overall picture sugg…
A Cultural Investment Participation Scheme offering repayable finance could kickstart the cultural sector’s economy under pr…
The new forums will give more organisations a voice on the process for opening up venues, but the cash flow crisis facing the enti…
Trusts and foundations are preparing to build stronger connections with a changed world and a changed public. Moira Sinclair refle…
For artists and performers to be supported in the years ahead, de-institutionalisation and the decentralisation of arts funding is…
The popularity of draw-based games improved returns to good causes last year, but heavy reliance on retail sales points to a &ldqu…
A tapering extension to pay protection for furloughed employees and Government refusal to acknowledge groups that have fallen thro…
A chorus of dismay is growing in response to the deepening financial crisis facing many of the artistic and creative workers who f…
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden is asking senior representatives across the DCMS portfolio to find “creative ways to get the…
Commercial operators reveal eye-watering losses and other non-subsidised organisations sit on the brink of ruin in the absence of…
The sector is “on its knees”, the Arts Council of Wales tells a Senedd committee, and invites the arts community to co…
Demand for emergency grants to support non-NPOs and individual artists through the Covid crisis could outstrip the funding availab…
Grassroots music venues, artist studio workspaces, independent cinemas and LGBTQ+ venues will share a fund that aims to catch thos…
The £90m emergency fund earmarked to support ACE’s National Portfolio Organisations and Creative People and Places con…
Leading representative bodies have set out their concerns for visual artists, telling the Chancellor of the Exchequer why coronavi…
Desperate pleas from those who are losing their livelihoods have revealed the stress that Arts Council England’s grant appli…