£300k boost for Bradford City of Culture
Bradford’s City of Culture team has been awarded £300,000 by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority. At is most recent…
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Glasgow Council considers £36m People’s Palace refurb
A proposal to ‘restore, reimagine and enhance’ the 125-year-old People’s Palace and Winter Gardens claims struct…
Fringe operator ‘facing collapse’ over £1.5m debt
Assembly Festival, which operates a major venue at Edinburgh Fringe and delivers around a fifth of the annual festival, is set to…
Edinburgh Fringe performers criticise ‘poster censorship’
Performers at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe claim posters advertising their shows are being censored or defaced as t…
County Durham theatre to close due to repair costs
The Alun Armstrong Theatre in County Durham is set to close this week due to repair costs that outstrip the town council’s b…
Arts group takes on lease of historic Bristol baths
A community arts group has secured a 35-year lease for a historic Bristol building following a campaign to save it. The BBC…
Boost to creative opportunities for young people in Newham
Newham Council and the University of East London (UEL) have announced a partnership aimed at increasing cultural and creative oppo…
Oldham approves plans for public arts space
The council’s latest addition to its Cultural Quarter is an outdoor arts space to facilitate arts classes and theatre perfor…
Oldham receives ACE funding for cultural activity
Oldham Coliseum Theatre company to play role in cultural activity over the next three years ahead of new theatre opening in the to…
Barbican receives £25m for upgrade works
Renewal works will transform underused spaces within the Barbican Centre for new creative use, as well as improving existing venue…
Second round of Create Growth Programme opens
An additional £10.9m of funding is available to support creative businesses and 'unlock economic growth' in the Engl…
Place music at centre of planning and licensing, report urges
Industry body UK Music wants the needs of the country's music infrastructure to be central to local government decision making…
Three new Creative Enterprise Zones in London
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has accredited three new Creative Enterprise Zones in the capital. Westminster, Brent and Islington are…
Museum of Cardiff to remain at current site
The Museum of Cardiff will remain in its current location for the next five years although concerns have been raised about its lon…
Flats near HS2 construction to become creative workspaces
Camden Council teams up with arts organisation to transform 90 empty flats into affordable creative workspaces for local artists.
Salford receives £750,000 from ACE for arts and culture
A three-year programme of cultural activities will be launched in Salford after the city received funding from Arts Council Englan…
Demonstrators call on Bristol’s mayor to restore arts funding
Further delays to funding decisions initially planned for October 2022 may result in closures, Bristol's arts organisations ha…
Cheltenham launches collaborative cultural strategy
Cultural organisations from across Cheltenham have agreed on a new collaborative cultural strategy that will see them working toge…
London’s 3 Mills Studios completes £6m renovation
A major expansion of 3 Mills Studios in East London has been completed. The £6m redevelopment includes upgrades to several h…
Outdoor tannoy system proposed for Brixton Academy
Venue operators submit planning permission for tannoy system and new fire doors, as Lambeth Council says date to decide if the ven…
LEEDS 2023 director rejects ‘damp squib’ criticism
Organisers of cultural festival point towards 90% positive feedback to delivered events, and engagement across all the city’…
Leicestershire windmill to become ‘quality museum’
The site of a listed windmill in Leicestershire is scheduled for an upgrade that will see it gain a “quality museum and asso…
Spotlight on new NPOs: Festival of Making
Co-Founder of the Festival of Making Elena Jackson says achieving NPO status is a recognition of placing artists and creative prac…
Council gives assurances on future of Buxton Museum
Derbyshire County Council has pledged to offer continued support to Buxton Museum after it was forced to close for maintenance wor…
