Brexit voters more likely to shun the arts, research finds
Arts and museum attendance are higher predictors of Remain voting than arts participation and library usage, both of which are les…
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Dave Moutrey appointed Director of Culture for Manchester
The Director of HOME hopes to make Manchester a ‘sticky city’ and to collaborate with Mayor Andy Burnham on integratin…
UK arts councils launch cultural cities enquiry
A call out for evidence seeks submissions on how planning, tax and fundraising reform could support arts organisations to become m…
The elusiveness of everyday culture
What – or who – needs to change to achieve cultural democracy and how can we remove the tension between official and e…
New cultural venues for Bradford and Blackpool
The Government’s £15m Northern Cultural Regeneration Fund has awarded grants to three major capital projects in the No…
The benefits of business support
Librarians in a London Borough have developed a more commercial mindset and the CEO of a crafts gallery is more confident to appro…
How to… get funding and support from your local council
When is it the right time to approach a council with your idea for an arts project? And what support can you expect to receive?&nb…
London to get ten ‘Creative Enterprise Zones’ in £5m scheme
Ten London boroughs will each receive £50k to create permanent affordable creative workspaces and provide support for artist…
Bristol ploughs ahead with arts cuts
Bristol Old Vic has lost 65% of its council funding but 13 arts organisations will receive core funding for the first time.
Arrested development: a region losing its arts officers
As the infrastructure of local authority arts provision starts to crack under the strain of funding cuts, Christy Romer examines t…
How much hope should we put in trusts and foundations?
With local authority arts funding slumping, are trusts and foundations picking up the bill? Christy Romer assesses a landscape und…
Why a council pulled the plug on a £17m arts centre
What lessons can be learned from Harrow Arts Centre about the complex and risky business of moving arts services into independent…
Grassroots arts suffering most under local authority cuts
A survey of arts workers has revealed the strains funding cuts are putting on the sector and shown that many local authorities are…
Local authority arts cuts: Optimism can only take us so far
Arts organisations are resourceful, collaborative, entrepreneurial and imaginative, but we must recognise that the long-term decli…
Arts Council joins forces with London authorities to promote culture in the capital
The shared commitment to extending access to arts and culture comes as London Mayor Sadiq Khan begins a review into the supply of…
An artist in residence for every ward in Glasgow
At a Culture Summit this week, Councillor David McDonald outlined how the city’s new government would deliver the SNP’…
Theatres and galleries key to ‘24-hour vision for London’
Mayor Sadiq Khan hopes to make the capital’s nightlife about more than just pubs and clubs.
Can less really be more?
As more and more local authorities reduce funding and staffing for the arts, how can we ensure they have the capacity to fulfil th…
A modest but vital grant scheme
Sally Staples explains how East Sussex Arts Partnership has simplified its grant-giving system by match funding successful Grants…
A radical rescue plan
The Canterbury Heritage Museum has attracted fewer and fewer visitors in recent years, but a rescue plan involving the Marlowe The…
Bidding for funding in partnership
When the six counties in the north of Wales suddenly found themselves in competition with one another for funding, they decided to…
Still going it alone
Two years after The Arts Development Company was formed to replace Dorset County Council’s arts service, Mike Hoskin gives a…
A simpler funding system
Budget cuts have forced Bristol City Council to change the system it uses to fund arts and culture activities. Philip Walker expla…
Young imaginations
Preston’s Harris Museum and Art Gallery needs ‘re-imagining’ and who better to do it than the young people who w…
