ACE chooses Bradford to announce National Portfolio

Decisions on which organisations will be chosen for the National Portfolio for the next three years will be announced next week in Bradford, the host of UK City of Culture 2025, Arts Council England (ACE) has revealed.

The announcement will take place at 11am on Wednesday 26 October at a live-streamed press conference with the organisation's Chair Sir Nicholas Serota and Chief Executive Darren Henley.

The pair will announce the organisations that will be funded through its Investment Programme for 2023-26. 

A total of 1,730 applications have been made to the programme, requesting just over £2bn over the three-year investment period.

ACE has said that the record-breaking number of applications is more than double the number of NPOs it currently invests in, making it the most over-subscribed investment round in its history.