Cultural democracy is key to audience engagement
Creating trust, promoting equity and putting cultural democracy at the heart of the vision for Coventry 2021 has been key to its s…
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Warrington Council creates artist database
A database of arts professionals local to Warrington is being compiled by the borough council. The creative practitioner database&…
ACE instructed to address funding imbalance
The funder is to redirect funding away from London-based organisations as outlined in the latest addendum to its guidance for appl…
Bristol gallery crowdfunds to complete £4m refurb
Bristol's RWA art gallery is crowdfunding the final £100,000 of its redevelopment project. The gallery is slated to reop…
£210m Cultural Heart plan ‘commonplace and risky’
A shopping precinct turned arts centre due for demolition should instead be a model for other town centres, a think tank argues.
Bristol museums face £436k cut
Bristol City Council is considering a £436,000 cut to funding for its museums and archives. The 10% reduction is one proposa…
Council stokes fear over museum restructure
Stoke-on-Trent City Council's planned cut to museum funding will have an “immediate, significant and long-lasting advers…
Maidenhead U-turns on 100% arts funding cut
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) has ditched plans to cut 100% of its arts funding, throwing a lifeline to two l…
Calls to stop vaccinations at Bedworth venue
A campaign is under way to bring live shows back to Bedworth's Civic Hall. Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council recently deci…
Cheltenham arts venue fears demolition
Plans for a new housing estate in Cheltenham may force demolition of a community arts venue. Chester West and Chester Boroug…
Council culture funding worth £43 per person
Local authority spending has nearly halved over the past decade and could fall further still. Is Levelling Up the solution?
LEEDS 2023: levelling up in action
Since Britain’s exit from Europe, we have no longer been able to compete for European Capital of Culture. But, as Kully Thia…
£3m culture budget for Birmingham
Birmingham City Councillors are being asked to approve a standstill culture budget of nearly £3m for 2022/23. The local auth…
£12m expansion at Bristol-based studios
Work is under way on a £12m expansion of Bristol TV and film studios The Bottle Yard. Three new stages will be added to the…
Local authority theatres ‘at risk’ amid Covid cost pressures
A record number of venues have been added to the Theatres at Risk register, half of them council owned.
Powys venues at risk over council funding cuts
Powys County Council in Wales plans to cut nearly £63,000 of arts funding. The same amount has already been cut from this ye…
Levelling Up White Paper targets cultural engagement outside London
Arts Council England will spend 100% of its budget uplift in the regions as Government commits to "significantly increasing&q…
Lewisham Borough of Culture begins
Lewisham’s Borough of Culture programme has begun. Performances and workshops took place across the South London borough on…
Londonderry project to address climate change
An arts-based community project aims to change behaviours towards climate change in Northern Ireland. Led by Derry theatre The Pla…
Legal failings over concert hall upgrade cost £67.5m
Croydon Council has been forced to foot the bill for its bungled venture after staff ignored astonishing budget overruns.
Guildford theatre faces council funding cut
A Guildford theatre faces a "deeply demoralising" cut to its council grant. Guildford Borough Council plans to gradually…
How might culture engineer levelling up?
DCMS is calling for evidence for its latest inquiry on the levelling up agenda. Jason Jones-Hall has been analysing initial data f…
Council set to cut all arts funding
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council must reconsider plans to abolish all grant funding for local arts from April,…
Catford theatre starts £7m refurb
Catford’s Broadway Theatre is closing this month for a £7m renovation project. Funding for the work comes from Lewisha…
