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ACE picks up £10.8m book gifting bill from the Department for Education

A £5.4m-a-year grant to give away packs of free books to all children in England places the Book Trust among Arts Council England’s top ten Grant in Aid beneficiaries. 

Liz Hill
5 min read

Responsibility for funding a book-gifting scheme that the Department for Education (DfE) tried to abandon in 2010 has been passed to Arts Council England (ACE), which will be finding the £5.4m a...

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