What next?
The future of arts philanthropy? Patrick Hussey reckons it’s crowdfunding…
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It could be you…
New ideas and strategies will soon have to be drawn up for distributing what is likely to be a growing pool of post-Olympics arts…
Trouble ahead?
With Lottery funding for investment in theatre buildings having slowed to a trickle in recent years, Mhora Samuel sees addressing…
New tricks
Dan Baker describes his company’s experience of crowdfunding
New cash follows Sustain
Seven arts organisations join ACE action research initiative
Tough decisions
Around half of NPO applications will be unsuccessful, says Davey
Matched funding to encourage philanthropy
Now I’m sure we’d all like an early Christmas present of a large gift from a donor or new sponsorship and I read with…
Hunt’s punt on giving
Hunt holds out his hat to philanthropists in efforts to boost giving to the arts
Changes are afoot…
“Don’t moan, organise…” was the rallying cry from Arts Council England (ACE) Chair, Dame Liz Forgan, in a…
David and Goliath battle over EU funding
UK theatre company pushed to brink of insolvency by mismanagement of EU funds
(Mostly) good news in Wales
The majority of ACW funded clients are set to gain as cash for the arts increases by 17%
Deep cuts on the horizon for Northern Ireland’s arts budget
Arts sector prepares to fight against proposals to slash Northern Ireland’s arts spending by 14%
Selling a stake
In the first of our brand new series on strategies for financial sustainability, Gwilym Gibbons explains how his organisation is e…
Searching for a silver lining
Martin Vogel argues that times of financial austerity should encourage arts organisations to re-evaluate how they approach and pre…
Charlotte Jones: The devil in the detail
The idea that philanthropy will fill the gap created by cuts in Government arts budgets is one that raises an eyebrow in som…
Will philanthropists save the arts?
It’s an important question, posed in a recent Guardian article, which grabbed my attention as I’m regularly approached…
Blogging around the South West
Currently working with Travelling Light Theatre Company in Bristol, I am a theatre maker and producer from Somerset. I love the So…
The value of Art
Cuts, cuts, cuts. In this new ‘age of austerity’, that’s all I hear whenever the Arts [sic caps] are mentioned….
Sigh of relief in Scotland and Wales
The Scottish Government and Welsh Assembly Government budgets are set to deliver a far softer blow to the arts than has been felt…
A False Economy
Anne Bonnar explains why subsidising every theatre ticket helps the better-off more than it helps those on low incomes
6.9% cuts, 100% innovation
Around this time last week, I was working my way across the North West, meeting with a number of RFOs waiting for news from ACE on…
I’m all right Nick
Great to see the Nicks and Neils of this world patting themselves, and ACE, on the back for having protected "front-line"…
Thinking ahead
Like anyone involved in running an Arts Council England RFO, it was difficult to think about much else last week except our Briefi…
The sector speaks
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Louise de Winter, Mark Pemberton, Roy Clare, Marcia Hutchinson, Stephen Cottrell, Hannah Nicklin, Michael Boyd, Fra…
