Race against time to beat the cuts
A new report on the plight of small visual arts organisations that are set to lose their core Arts Council England (ACE) funding i…
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New cash to target fallow areas
The 71 areas of England which fall into the lowest 20% for arts engagement will soon be eligible for investment from a new £…
Quick start for music plan
Timetable for the launch of music education hubs raises questions about implementation logistics
Cautious optimism on income
Arts organisations feel they are unlikely to recover losses in public sector funding from other sources until at least 2015, accor…
Lights dim on Broadway
The future of The Broadway performing arts venue in Barking, East London, hangs in the balance following an announcement of propos…
Music hubs to drive music education from 2012
Local authorities will no longer be at the heart of decision-making on music education provision
You can’t complain if you don’t play the game
Dany Louise issues a rallying cry to artists
Artists fall at funding hurdles
New research shows that artists are slow to apply for grants and feel disconnected from arts policy
North East to lose audience agency
Audiences North East (ANE), the North East region’s audience development agency, has announced its closure at the end of Mar…
Touring and capital development are prioritised in ACE’s new strategic funds
Arts Council England emphasises collaborative projects and financial sustainability throughout its new funding programmes
Smoke and mirrors
The Scottish Government’s Spending Review and Draft Budget for 2012/13 contains some difficult news for the arts, both directly…
Good on paper, bad in practice
In the first of a two articles looking at policy initiatives for stimulating fundraising in the cultural sector, Javier Stanziola…
Join the crowd
Heather Stewart celebrates the potential of crowd funding and crowd sourcing as income streams – but only as part of an overall…
ACE replicates arts funding model for museums
For the first time major grants to regional museums are set to be awarded via an open application process, assessed against publis…
Culture funding survives the worst of Scotland’s budget cuts
Standstill funding faces Scotland’s National Performing Companies for the year ahead
Fool’s gold?
Further details of new funding schemes to help arts organisations build their fundraising capacity and develop an endowment have b…
Capital plans for Wales
Revenue projections will be demanded for capital investment bids under ACW’s draft Capital Strategy
Finders keepers?
Art Asia’s experience of the high-profile funding scheme Find Your Talent typifies the journey of many arts organisations as the…
A new Encounter
This July sees the launch of Encounter, a programme of art in public spaces of North Kent, and the culmination of a long period of…
Are there not enough hours in your day?
I can’t think of a time when anyone has ever complained to me of having too many hours in their working day. Everyone seems…
Working together
Ralph Lister takes a look at the National Rural Touring Forum and its efforts to improve arts access in rural areas
When the going gets tough…
Ralph Lister on what’s next for Somerset’s arts
Funding the future – a risky business?
“Where do I start?” is a question that we hear weekly from the 42,000 members of our online youth arts community Ideas…
Programming contemporary art in the UK regions
After years of chronic underfunding by the previous Conservative administration, New Labour’s election victory in 1997 saw a…
