When the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust sought a new chief executive it chose someone with a financial background and not a museum…

Theresa Lloyd and Beth Breeze share some insights from their study of the attitudes and habits of potential donors.

Gillian Taylor looks at how festivals can involve communities in making site-responsive works that create a sense of pride in lost…

Skilled and experienced in their craft, but with their physicality threatened and changed by time, what does it mean to be an olde…

Group singing brings many benefits to people living in areas of disadvantage, according to a new report by Evan Dawson and Ka…

Working in partnership with a Ugandan arts organisation has been a fraught experience (an understatement) for Blackpool’s Tr…

The government’s new primary sports funding will increase dance provision in primary schools. Sally Fort urges dance practit…

Emma O’Neill reflects on how the spirit of a gallery can enhance a touring exhibition.

Many see zero hours contracts as exploiting workers, but Eleanor Deem points out that the flexibility they offer can prove invalua…

Arts Development UK’s latest survey on arts spending in local authorities in England and Wales reveals a "dramatic and…

When we commissioned Jessica Hepburn to write about fundraising, she wondered if she really had anything new to say. She cert…

Shonagh Manson shares her vision on how the relatively small Jerwood Charitable Foundation can directly support the early careers…

How does an arts organisation tackle change successfully in difficult economic times? Ivan Wadeson summarises his discussions with…

As crowdfunding continues to make an impact, Sean Egan looks at its two forms and how the arts can take advant…

Tamsin Dillon describes how art is being used to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground.

Mark Fisher charts the global success of ‘Made in Scotland’, the programme which showcases dance and theatre comp…

Caroline Greener believes that cultural centres should be reaching out to those who will never physically visit their venue.

Jenny Williams is looking forward to the day when our national cultural institutions are led by a beautiful diversity of people ac…

Willemijn Zandt explores the quest to achieve equality between the sexes by looking at the visual art market.

The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is committed to promoting equality, as demonstrated in its first Intercultural Arts Strategy.

Think it’s time to merge Lottery funding with Grant in Aid to plug the arts funding gap? Think again, says Christopher Gordo…

The Old Vic’s community theatre projects may be uneconomic and time-consuming, but Steve Winter and Alexander Ferris believe…

Mark Hewitt reflects on the impact of an arts regeneration project in Leysdown-on-Sea on the Isle of Sheppey.

Jessica Stockford tells how Arts & Business’ programme to recruit young employees of big companies to arts boards has pr…