Supporting freelancers would be ‘relatively cheap’
A year's worth of income support payments for arts sector freelancers would cost an estimated £880m – less than 1%…
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Second round loans will be at least £1m each
100 or fewer organisations will benefit from the next round of England's Culture Recovery Fund repayable finance.
£166m in loans comes with promise of new grants
A further £400m of Culture Recovery Fund grants and loans has been earmarked for extending another "helping hand&q…
Plea to save sector as support for freelancers ends
The imminent end of income support for freelancers "will be devastating for them and for the industry," union leaders sa…
Loans can pay for freelancers, ACE says
Organisations applying to DCMS' £270m repayable finance scheme can ask for money to employ freelancers when government&n…
Freeze or cut pay to get funding, sector told
Funding bodies will enforce "pay restraint" at the organisations getting recovery money – but won't be exercis…
‘Cultural contract’ to be condition of Welsh emergency funding
The Welsh Government will require organisations to commit to fair pay rates, but has not responded to calls for a universal basic…
Mounting pressure to protect freelancers’ income
Surveys say 70% fear they can't pay the bills, 60% expect their income to halve and 50% have lost all their scheduled wor…
Scotland’s new Culture Strategy: ‘Culture must be valued in itself’
The long-awaited document aims to create a more diverse cultural sector but contains no new measures to improve artists’ pay…
Sector victory as council pulls ad for ‘volunteer community artist’
Wiltshire Council says it now knows asking for experienced, skilled and pre-vetted volunteers “was not the right approach&rd…
Female artists’ work three times more likely to be undervalued than men’s
New research “confirms many fears that female artists are making less money, regardless of talent”. So what’s th…
Arts Councils won’t enforce minimum pay
The Arts Council of Wales has said it won’t fund projects that don’t budget minimum pay rates for artists. We asked th…
Music management ‘increasingly unsustainable’, report says
New research suggests the expanding role of music managers and an outdated earnings model means “we run the risk of losing m…
£250m funding boost for culture
The Government’s “biggest ever single investment in cultural infrastructure” will pay for building maintenance i…
Arts Council of Wales sets minimum pay rates
The agency has said it will not fund applications that don’t commit to paying artists union minimum rates “at the very least�…
Bradford cultural workers to strike
Library and museum staff planning 14 days of industrial action hope it will be "a wake-up call for the council to come to the…
Your questions answered on ACE’s new strategy
Arts Council England’s policy leads respond to questions on its plans for the next ten years.
Giving artists a seat at the table
The arts sector needs to stop exploiting skilled practitioners through tokenistic and self-serving community projects, says Charlo…
Progress on closing gender pay gap
Eight of England's largest arts employers reduced their gender pay gaps last year, with Arts Council England ending the year w…
Funder tells artists to charge higher fees
The first round of the new Jerwood Bursaries sees artists invited to resubmit their funding bids to include more pay for themselve…
Race to the bottom
As low- or no-pay practices continue to dominate the arts and cultural sector, some enlightened employers are starting to reap the…
Freedom to struggle
Who’d be a freelancer in the arts in 2019? Christy Romer sheds light on the human cost of being self employed in the cultura…
Rights, wellbeing and dignity
Financial insecurity plagues the working lives of cultural workers, with the self-employed and freelancers worst affected. But sol…
Entertainment without exploitation
Charlotte Bence looks back on how the trade union Equity has fought low paid and unpaid work in the entertainment industries since…
