Backlash over massive funding cuts for emerging musicians
Leading music industry figures call for royalties body to reverse 60% funding cut for new talent, despite increase in revenues.
Leading music industry figures call for royalties body to reverse 60% funding cut for new talent, despite increase in revenues.
The UK’s Cultural Protection Fund is yet to designate funding to Ukraine to support widespread damage to heritage sites caus…
The initiative gives music fans the chance to buy shares in grassroots music venues and help secure their long-term future.
Testing of upgrades to the much-maligned Grantium application system are underway, with a launch date for an improved version…
Report recommends new cultural sector data platform to help make the case for increased funding across the arts.
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries tells MPs that while the system of distributing arts funding is "not perfect", there ar…
DCMS is extending its UK Global Screen Fund for three years with an additional £21m of funding. Designed to boost internatio…
The programme, aimed at transforming digital and physical infrastructure, is penned as a way to put culture at the forefront of lo…
DCMS is reopening the Cultural Investment Fund with £128m available across three funding streams. This latest round is made…
A government review of public bodies will consider whether they should be retained or abolished as well as seeking efficiency savi…
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation is gifting £6m to the Royal Academy of Music, the single biggest donation in the institutio…
An overwhelming lack of ownership among the UK’s independent music venues puts the future of the ecosystem at risk, advocate…
Creative Scotland says it will expect all funding recipients to demonstrate how their work contributes to making the sector carbon…
Smaller grant givers take aim at the outgoing National Lottery operator, saying they want less competition and more collaboration.
An absence of ringfenced funding for grassroots venues and promoters will likely lead to further closures, musicians say.
Independent labels’ share of the UK music market grew to just under 27% in 2021. Data from the British Phonographic Industry…
If there is a universal truth in the arts and culture sector, it is that funding is an eternal challenge. That's even more tru…
A London art dealer and gallery owner facing 20 years in prison has claimed the capital's trade is fuelled by drinking and dru…
Trustees missed the warning signs in 2020, reporting a "very low risk" of closure just six months ago.
The Government's pandemic insurance scheme for film and television is closing. First unveiled in July 2020, The £500m Fi…
The UK’s share of the global art market fell to a historic low in 2021, according to the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market…
Governance requirements for the next National Portfolio are "taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut" and could lead to boa…
Measures announced in the Chancellor's spring statement could actually work against the sector's aims.
Cultural organisations in Northern Ireland will receive a share of £1.3m of unclaimed money through the Dormant Account…