East London museum awarded £800k for restoration
Valence House Museum and Gardens in Dagenham will undergo £800k improvement works after securing external investment. The re…
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Arts Council Wales chief urges ‘national debate’ on value of arts
Comments follow the Senedd's decision to reduce Arts Council Wales' annual funding by 10.5%.
Cultural festival awarded £30k from ACE
A new cultural festival in Broxtrowe, Nottinghamshire, has received £30,000 of Arts Council England (ACE) funding. Run…
Musicians awarded compensation after orchestra insolvency
An employment tribunal has ruled 17 members of a former ensemble, which became insolvent suddenly last year, are entitled to a sha…
Can fungi boost festival sustainability?
An Arts Council England-backed project has been exploring whether mycelium, a material made from the root network of fungi, can be…
Coventry Culture Trust administration extended
Administrators investigating a charity's spending have been given another year to continue their work. Since Coventry City of…
Somerset Council plans culture budget cuts
Cost-saving proposals include reducing support to the county’s theatres as the council faces a £100m funding shortfall…
Museum re-opens in former bank
Chatteris Museum in Cambridgeshire is reopening in a former Barclays bank branch two years after moving out of its old premises, h…
Use philanthropy to increase arts funding, says Robertson
Scotland’s Cultural Secretary Angus Robertson says exploring new funding streams in addition to government funding, and work…
Music in schools initiative gets further ACE funding
An initiative to perform live classical music shows in school playgrounds will tour schools and venues nationwide this year after…
Collections Trust reviews weblinks policy after Hamas reference
Collections Trust has deleted a link to a terminology guide from its website following accusations that a section on Palestine des…
Peterborough theatre undergoes £5m refurb
Peterborough's Cresset theatre has closed for a month to allow all of its 876 seats to be replaced as part of a £5m refu…
Scottish government commits £200,000 to ‘slavery museum’
All six recommendations of independent steering group, set up to advise on how museums and galleries can better reflect the countr…
Council seeks reallocation of government cash to save arts centre
Woking Council will ask the government if it can use money provided for digital strategy to keep an arts centre open. The BBC repo…
‘Neglected housing’ claim at artist studio scheme
Bow Arts provides low-cost housing and studios to artists in properties that have been deregistered from the housing list because…
Activists urge architects to boycott British Museum redesign
Environmental campaigners are calling on architects not to take part in a contest to redesign around a third of the British Museum…
Scrapping free entry to Welsh museums ‘inevitable’
The introduction of admission fees at all national museum sites in Wales due to “critical” financial pressures has an…
ACE portfolio extension: NPOs wary of ‘standstill funding’
Arts leaders have reacted to Art Council England's decision to extend its current funding portfolio until 2027.
V&A Dundee halves its major exhibit output to cut costs
V&A Dundee will reduce the number of major exhibitions it stages each year as part of “mitigating measures” to cut…
ACE extends National Portfolio to 2027
The 985 arts and culture organisations making up Arts Council England's National Portfolio will be able to apply for an additi…
Most artists want AI regulation from government
The majority of UK artists want the government to introduce legislation to protect their work from being used to train AI, accordi…
ENO staff vote for strike action
English National Opera plans to axe 19 posts in its orchestra, and make the chorus, orchestra and music staff part-time as part of…
Northern Ireland artists receive £1m from National Lottery
Arts Council of Northern Ireland has named 292 artists awarded funding from a £1.04m National Lottery fund as part of its Su…
Fringe festival chiefs call for regular government funding
Leaders of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society say the city’s status as host of a leading cultural festival is in jeopardy…
