Only fools and dreamers
Setting up a new theatre in a former bus depot with no funding was a leap of faith for its two founders. Peter Tate and Anthony Bi…
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MPs call for more transparency over Lottery sales and spend
A letter signed by 30 Labour MPs expresses concern that National Lottery ticket buyers are subsidising arts and community projects…
Inquiry slams Creative Scotland over management failure
MSPs are “very concerned” by the national arts funder’s handling of its Regular Funding application process.
£20m place-based arts fund a ‘new approach to investment’
Four or five urban areas in England’s regions will be awarded up to £7m in Government funding to support cultural rege…
Closures as NPOs have arts council funding offers withdrawn
Three theatre organisations that were made funding offers last year have not been accepted into Arts Council England’s natio…
Data map reveals levels of arts engagement across England
The data will be used by Arts Council England to inform a £24m investment in new areas through its Creative People and Place…
Decline of National Lottery sales begins to reverse
A 1.7% increase in returns to the arts has been credited to a “nice run of luck” and a series of new initiatives …
Creative Scotland trials matched crowdfunding scheme
The launch follows research into the power of match funding to boost public donations to arts organisations and increase fundraisi…
Time, space and money
Many artists find it difficult to sustain their practice early on in their careers. Nicola Sim shares the findings of her research…
Europe plans €400m increase to culture budget
The proposed 27% increase would take funding for the creative and cultural sector up to €1.9bn for the years 2021-27.
Visual arts organisation ‘throws in the towel’ after 40 years
Exeter’s Spacex has marked its demise by publishing a satirical conversation around the imbalance of power between those in-…
Hopes dashed for Lottery funding recovery
The National Lottery operator has said it hopes to increase returns for good causes by £80m by 2020, following a £300m…
In conversation: Researching cultural value
Do we know more about the worth of the arts than we did 30 years ago or have we been going in circles? Researcher Patrycja Kaszyns…
Letter: Facing a closed door
Stunting community and voluntary arts organisations by restricting access to capital funding will hurt the whole sector in the lon…
ACE less able to support arts organisations in crisis
A £2.1m fall in the national funder’s annual NPO contingency budget means its ability to respond to requests for finan…
Welsh lottery failure brings arts grants programme to an end
Plans to distribute £5m to good causes have been frustrated by the collapse of Loteri Cymru, which failed to attract suffici…
Artists call for ACE to take more risks and better defend regions
A candid response by What Next? Newcastle Gateshead to Arts Council England’s ten-year strategy consultation tells ACE…
Arts sector fears being too poor to refuse ‘unethical’ donations
New research by AP reveals that few arts organisations have an ethical fundraising policy, although most think they are vulnerable…
Survival skills for the new normal
The Boosting Resilience programme is helping the sector develop new approaches to resilience based on creative assets and intellec…
How bad is bad?
Are problems of ethics in danger of making the arts unfundable? Michelle Wright addresses some uncomfortable questions.
No room for neutrals
Chris Garrard believes that no one should be neutral in the debate on ethical sponsorship.
Northern Ireland reduces size of arts portfolio as cuts continue
100 arts organisations will share £13.1m this year, as the Arts Council struggles to deal with a £23m reduction in pub…
Arts Council and University of Kent to explore arts and health
A Memorandum of Understanding has committed the two parties to investigating the impact of creativity on young people’s well…
Arts Council criticised for prioritising opera in music funding
UK Music has accused England’s arts funder of being “too posh for pop” and called for an urgent review of the al…
