Councils warn of further potential arts cuts
Despite significant cuts in recent years, local government remains the largest single biggest funder of culture, spending around &…
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Multi-year Scottish funding decisions postponed until 2025
In a shift from recently fractious relations between the funding body and the Scottish Government, Creative Scotland’s state…
Treasury urged to back £1.5m theatre scheme for children
In a letter to the Treasury, the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre have also called for a £30m emergency capital…
Commercial activity ‘largest income stream’ for cultural organisations
Study finds evidence that cultural organisations are benefitting from variable pricing and experimenting with new approaches to ti…
Council launches £500,000 arts fund after budget u-turn
Suffolk County Council has opened a £500,000 Culture Project Fund after announcing plans to cut its core arts funding comple…
ACE investigating further allegations of Covid fraud
New figures from ACE showing an increase in Culture Recovery Fund fraud investigations as government begins search for Commissione…
Holyrood and Creative Scotland in talks to save culture jobs
Executive Director of Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance tells Scottish parliament that cultural organisations reliant on multi-year fu…
ACE monitoring arts centre after performers go unpaid
Halifax's Square Chapel is the second Arts At The Mill organisation to have its Arts Council England funding paused in th…
Northern Ireland’s arts activity falls by 22%
Arts organisations receiving regular funding from Arts Council of Northern Ireland hosted fewer physical events during financial y…
Arts festival embroiled in row over Palestinian speaker
British Council and Arts Council England say they have looked into the inclusion of a Palestinian comic artist, who has allegedly…
ACE outlines plans to support independent bookshops
Arts Council England pledges to develop a 'compelling case to government' around the value of independent bookshops to cul…
Councils should ‘bear responsibility’ for cultural trust struggles
Hampshire County Council is pushing through plans to reduce Hampshire Cultural Trust's budget by £600,000, placing the f…
Bryant seeks to ‘rescue arts from financial black hole’
Speaking at a fringe event at the Labour Party conference, Arts Minister Chris Bryant sets out his intention to 'transform'…
Increase arts’ share of lottery cash, thinktank urges
Additional funding would help arts and heritage organisations deal with the 'crisis in capital funding of cultural and heritag…
Foundations granted arts more than £200m during pandemic
A report from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation shows arts and culture grants from trusts and foundations spiked in financial year 2020/2…
Joe Lycett calls for end to ‘red tape’ within arts
Joe Lycett has launched an arts 'manifesto' after being unveiled as the orchestrator of a series of staged protests by a m…
Government will not intervene in WNO funding, says Bryant
Arts Minister Chris Bryant says DCMS is working with the Welsh government to ‘understand the situation’ around Welsh N…
British Museum plans to keep entry free
The Director of the British Museum, Nicholas Cullinan, has said he plans to keep the institution free to all visitors. Speaking to…
Spanish language theatre shuts due to financial challenges
A Spanish language theatre in London has closed due to “a lack of financial support". Performing in English and Spanish…
Applications for Creative People and Places 2026-29 opens
Arts Council England has opened the application process for the next three-year round of its Creative People and Places funding pr…
Government delays planned review of Arts Council England
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says study into the funding environment for arts and culture organisations will be conducted before a…
Digital arts projects in Northern Ireland receive over £75k
Eight artists from Northern Ireland will share £75,835 of funding toward the creation of art projects using digital tec…
The search for new funding and business models
There has been a lot of talk about the future of UK arts funding over the summer. Fran Sanderson has been assessing various fundin…
Equity chief calls on PM to ‘return arts funding to where it was’
The General Secretary of performers' union Equity has urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer not to forget the creative industries…
