Catalyst for philanthropy
ACE announces details of £40m scheme to boost private giving to the arts
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Capital consultation
Helping its revenue-funded organisations to realise the full potential of their facilities is central to a new draft Capital Strat…
ACE seeks to reassure funding applicants
Arts Council England concedes to having made errors in its assessment processes for NPO funding, but claims this had no impact on…
The Only Way is Ethics?
Ethics in the Arts – In these shaky financial times should the arts accept cash from anyone? Who should a sponsorship policy exclu…
The shortest joke in the world
I heard a comedian, his name escapes me, like most of the moderate to essential memories currently tunnelling their way out of my…
Catalyst for philanthropy
ACE announces details of £40m scheme to boost private giving to the arts
Local authority budgets crash
Arts services departments are being restructured in an attempt to mitigate the impact of the cuts
Project funding undermines outreach
An investigation into the extent to which museums and galleries are engaged in their communities has provoked a call for a fundame…
The price of everything and the value of nothing?
Last week I went to two art exhibitions. Paul Graham at the Whitechapel and George Shaw at the Baltic. Looking at Graham’s photos…
Looking outside the arts
Amid all the furore over the current arts funding crisis, there has been a lot of talk of the arts embracing wider corporate busin…
A word of caution
A month has passed since Arts Council England announced the 695 organisations that will make up its new National Portfolio from Ap…
A very sad day
I took a very sad trip around Leicester Haymarket a few weeks ago. Once it was thriving. Once upon a time you could see interestin…
Developing your Fundraising Strategy
The recent cuts have meant that many organisations have either recognised they need to fundraise or to increase their reliance on…
ACE grapples with equality
Organisations’ shortcomings contribute to Arts Council England dilemmas over funding diversity
Cuts framework to guide LAs
Local authorities considering cutting funding to voluntary and community organisations will have to consult, engage with the bodie…
Festival time in Wales
Eleven of Wales’s arts festivals are to share over £500,000 of Lottery funding to enable them to “showcase cultu…
Graham Hitchen
We’ve heard lots about the importance of ‘frontline’ organisations recently, but very little about the organisat…
The first cut is the deepest
The cuts are rapidly becoming synonymous with an unhealthy cultural state, although perhaps we should question how healthy our cul…
Social media fundraising
Heather Stewart wonders how social media fundraising will develop and who will capitalise on it successfully
No change
Six years of audience development work has not upped engagement levels
Art Fund extends free access
More cash for acquisitions and better public access to collections are among the aims of a major funding programme
The Select Committee’s findings are a missed opportunity, says Christopher Gordon
After an inquiry lasting six months, Parliament published its report on the funding of arts and heritage just before Arts Council…
Alan Davey comments on ACE’s new portfolio of funded organisations
The past week has been really important for the arts. Since the Arts Council received its settlement from government in October, w…
If we do not support artists there will be little art, says Susan Jones
Hidden behind all the glitter of support to lottery-funded galleries is the sobering data that many crucial artists’ organis…
