ACE shares the pain
ACE announces its funding plans in response to grant in aid budget cuts of 29.6%
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ACE takes the big hit
In the wake of the Spending Review, Arts Council England’s (ACE) grant in aid budget for 2011/12 to 2014/15 will be set at &…
A select gathering
It was standing room only earlier this month at the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee investigating Funding of the Arts an…
Fears for local authority arts funding
With councils across England facing a real terms average loss of grant of 7.25% a year for four years following the Spending Revie…
DCMS publishes its Business Plan
Reform for the DCMS’s arm’s length bodies, and support for a move towards more sustainable business models, are at the…
Culture committee interrogations continue
Witnesses at the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee inquiry into the funding of the arts and heritage (see AP228) are being…
The sector speaks
Comment on the Spending Review and ACE funding decisions
Last word
One star review A couple of months ago, I was pulled aside by a well-respected arts figure and asked why AP insisted on painting t…
ACE’s new funding system and ten-year strategic framework
“The biggest transformation in arts funding for a generation”, was announced by Dame Liz Forgan, Chair of Arts C…
Serota speaks out
Nicholas Serota, Director of Tate, has warned that museums could be forced to close for two days a week under the “bli…
The public debate on private giving
Philanthropy can only supplement arts funding, not be a substitute for it. And so Arts & Business looks to confirm in its new…
Nosheen Iqbal and Eleanor Turney explain what the Spending Review will mean for the arts
This afternoon’s highly-anticipated Spending Review announcement has reiterated that the government will maintain free…
Breaking News: ACE funding decisions
Arts & Business (A&B) is to lose all of its funding from Arts Council England by 2012/13, and suffer a 50% cut in 20…
Need to know
Need advice on work matters? AP hunts down some answers
Sector rallies the troops
Exclusive: New super-body of cultural organisations launches powerful network to keep arts at the top of the public agenda
Museum bodies clash
Fears that funding cuts will damage the Renaissance programme, designed to boost the profile of regional museums, has sparked a sh…
Progress and profit
Sarah Thelwall outlines clear models on how to develop mixed income streams for your organisation
Last Word
Strength in numbers I’m going to come clean. An hour before we signed off the final tweaks to what I do think is a particula…
Bangers and cash
Edinburgh’s festivals mark their most successful year to date, but face a funding crisis as public and corporate support comes u…
Sector subsidy holds steady?
Public funding to the arts sector increased by five per cent during the worst of the financial crisis in 2008/09, while private in…
Alive and kicking
Why should arts funders invest in experimentation? Hasan Bakhshi presents findings from NESTA’s new research
Waving or drowning?
Shaun Belcher debates ideas on how to improve community arts
Top 5 Websites
Kim Lofthouse shares the websites she wouldn’t want to be without
Global nerves as recession bites
Fears of funding losses are offset by confidence that arts organisations will show resilience.
