Edinburgh Fringe performers lose thousands through Facebook scams
A series of accommodation booking scams on Facebook have left performers and backstage staff at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe thou…
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Arts centre embroiled in conflict of interest controversy
The Charity Commission has described a potential conflict of interest at Firstsite in Colchester, relating to £90k spent on…
New grants restricted to high-performing EBacc schools
A £2.4m teacher support fund will only be available to schools that deliver teacher-led whole-class instruction with a focus…
Greater Manchester forms culture steering group
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has brought together a group of artists and cultural administrators to guide work in support…
Edinburgh arts venue scraps zero hours contracts
Edinburgh’s multi-arts complex Summerhall has signed an agreement with Unite the Union agreeing to offer its full-time hourl…
Former Notting Hill Carnival finance officer jailed for fraud
Nadia Chase Ali has been sentenced to six years in prison after a court found she made payments totalling £784k between 2014…
Local authority culture budgets down £48m in 5 years
Cultural spend has been reallocated or cut to zero at four more councils this year, and some local authorities are turning a profi…
Theatre tax relief payouts rise by two thirds
Almost 3,000 productions shared rebates worth £77m last year, including 40 claims worth over £500k.
New support for Virtual and Augmented Reality projects
Five creative organisations have been awarded a total of £350k through Arts Council England and the Digital Catapult fund, f…
Reworked Factory Manchester plans approved
Architectural practice OMA has been granted planning permission for the second time for the £111m arts venue, after its Janu…
UK Music urges councils to implement ‘agent of change’ ruling
The membership body is pressing the Local Government Association to promote new guidelines that aim to protect live music venues f…
Scotland sets up £5m fund for businesses hit by Art School fire
Local businesses affected by a safety cordon around Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building – which is being disma…
Jazz renaissance among younger people
Streaming services such as Amazon Music and Spotify have reported significant increases in users under 30 listening to jazz, which…
Artists to withdraw work from Design Museum in protest at arms dealer links
25 artists and designers whose work is featured in the museum’s Hope to Nope exhibition have demanded their contributions be…
Doctors supported to prescribe arts through new £4.5m scheme
Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s initiative aims to reach tens of thousands of people across England.
Culture more important than politics to US-UK ties, report finds
Americans online talked more about Adele than Brexit, even in the month after the UK voted to leave the European Union.
Dance key to tackling obesity in primary schools, says Ofsted
The subject is seen as a useful way of encouraging children to engage with physical activity, even if they do not like competitive…
Survey reveals high levels of sexual harassment among performing arts students
51% of the 600 drama, music and dance students polled by the Incorporated Society of Musicians, Equity and the Musicians Union sai…
Gulbenkian Foundation launches new £4m arts programme
Creative Civic Change, launched in partnership with the Big Lottery Fund and Local Trust, is open to community groups across Engla…
Gavaghan completes leadership team at Clean Break
Incoming Executive Director Erin Gavaghan believes the sector still has work to do on changing traditional working structures to m…
Creative Europe funding boosts UK culture, research finds
91 companies and organisations in the UK were supported by Creative Europe last year, receiving 10% of the scheme’s total fu…
Cultural sector to ACE: we need support, not measurement
A report commissioned by Arts Council England finds that two-thirds of the sector want the body to advocate its value to central g…
UK leads soft power index
The country’s culture was ranked second globally, remaining behind the US and ahead of France and Germany.
Purpose-built theatre set for Natural History Museum
The European premiere of The Wider Earth will be staged in a 357-seat venue in the museum’s Jerwood Gallery, with raked seat…
