Businesses aren’t investing in culture, research finds
Employers think that arts and culture make places more attractive for workers – but see salaries, transport and schools as m…
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Decline in creative A Levels accelerates
About 6500 fewer students sat A Levels for creative subjects this year, outpacing a general decline in the number of exams taken b…
Edinburgh Fringe performers allege sexual harassment
Women working at the festival have reported facing sexual harassment on a daily basis while promoting their shows. Actors'…
Cultural Education Partnerships’ development stalls
Four years after the scheme was launched, only a third of partnerships believe they are established and delivering.
Music agency director admits £360k fraud
Christopher Hoare, a former IT director for classical music management agency HarrisonParrott, faces jail time after pleading guil…
Rooftop beach hut is ‘accommodation, not art’
A community arts group in London is refusing to remove a beach hut it built, despite the local council's opinion that it is ac…
£5m plan to renew abandoned theatre
A Liverpool community group is spearheading a campaign to restore The Garston Empire to its former glory. The theatre has been emp…
Special Advisor for Culture Secretary vetoed
Luke Tryl, ex-Director of the New Schools Network, will not longer act as an advisor to Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan after Downi…
DCMS surveys sectors’ Brexit preparedness
A short survey from the department is asking creative businesses if they are aware of how a no-deal Brexit might affect them, and…
Museum and art gallery attendance bounces back
New figures indicate the reversal of a three-year pattern of declining visitor numbers at English institutions – and new hop…
ACE to fund Edinburgh Fringe showcase
The funder plans to invest up to £2.25 million in England-based performance artists “to build and strengthen internati…
Court bars girl from joining boys’ choir
A 9-year-old German girl will not be able to join Berlin's oldest cultural institution, its all boys' choir, after a&…
Brexiteers fail to inspire Poet Laureate
Simon Armitage says he has no plans to mark Britain's upcoming exit from the European Union with a poem, despite the efforts o…
ACE ‘may have to revise’ NPO funding agreements from 2020
The Arts Council has warned that if its grant-in-aid from DCMS is cut in the forthcoming spending review, it may not be able to af…
Dance website closes
Londondance.com has closed after 18 years in operation. A statement on the website says "the dance sector has considerably ch…
‘Increasing social division’ in schools’ theatre access
England’s principal producing theatres say cuts to arts education are increasingly restricting their work with children to i…
Tax relief for arts and culture grows by one fifth
More money was refunded to both large and small organisations last year – but freelancers are missing out.
£5m boost for ACE’s Creative People and Places scheme
The extra money has been allocated above the programme’s planned budget “in response to the incredibly strong applicat…
Brexit will cost musicians £1000, ISM says
Artists bringing musical instruments into the European Union could pay up to to £1000 a year in the event of a no-deal Brexi…
Fundraising Regulator: voluntary levy is ‘not optional’
The authority says charities that don’t pay “need to reflect on the fact that they are not contributing to the costs o…
Inaccessible Peterloo memorial unveiled in Manchester
Accessibility campaigners say it is a "kick in the teeth" that the £1m sculpture was made public on Tuesday,…
National Railway Museum staff to strike
Unionised workers at the York venue will walk off the job on 30 August amid a dispute over their most recent pay rise. Prospe…
No London-Edinburgh rail during Fringe finale
Edinburgh's Fringe, International and Military Tattoo festivals have pleaded with Network Rail to delay works that will stop a…
Opera star faces sexual harassment claims
Eight singers and a dancer have alleged Placido Domingo sexually harrassed them, and more than 30 other industry workers say they…
