With all the talk of cuts and fees its easy to get disheartened about the future health of creative industries in higher education…

I’ve spoken here before about the benefits of the internet in bringing creative communities together, but how can we directly enga…

After an inquiry lasting six months, Parliament published its report on the funding of arts and heritage just before Arts Council…

The past week has been really important for the arts. Since the Arts Council received its settlement from government in October, w…

Hidden behind all the glitter of support to lottery-funded galleries is the sobering data that many crucial artists’ organis…

Nick Hunt asks, why is ACE doing the Government’s dirty work?

Mike Ingham on ACE’s decision to cut funding to the Audience Development Agencies

Liz Hill argues that now is not the time to put our heads in the sand about the impact of audience development activity in the art…

Roger Tomlinson on our story about audience development

David Brownlee on our audience development story

It is so disheartening to hear a theatre manager bemoaning a commitment to increasing audience engagement (Danny Moar, quoted in A…

There’s a lot of hubbub on t’internet at the moment about a certain Rebecca Black and her ‘viral’ ‘hit’ Friday. It seems the hive-…

In ‘Charitable Deduction Limit: Bad For Art Nonprofits?’ Elizabeth Blair suggests that President Obama’s deficit-reduc…

Christopher Goodhart is absolutely right when he calls for greater focus on developing philanthropy amongst the mass affluent; peo…

I have worked with a lot of boards in my time. Some incredibly supportive, a guiding hand from afar. Others so hands off they appe…

For the vast majority of arts organisation in England (and pretty much all those in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) 30 March…

They may seem simple questions but topics that seem to be vexing many people at the moment. Is there a difference between a theatr…

I was recently at a training course, which looked at how to work with young people at risk of getting trapped in the benefits syst…

For years you could hear the cry of education funding bodies, the sound echoing through the corridors of drama schools; “wid…

While I am worried that the pressure on arts organisations to recruit and use volunteers is becoming an imperative (‘Volunte…

Phil Redmond appears to have caused a bit of a stir (or, at least, he thinks so) by recommending the establishment of ‘Local…

One of the contradictions of the Big Society is that volunteering is to be encouraged, yet funding is being cut from many organisa…

I suppose it is inevitable that every generation will acquire a rose tinted retrospective. I can’t claim to be excluded from…

“The organisation will conduct an equal opportunities interview – asking all interviewees the same questions and scori…