Arts Council NI and British Council extend partnership
Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the British Council have extended their partnership to 2024. Now in their tenth yea…
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Theatre Artists Fund issues £500k freelance grants
The Theatre Artists Fund has distributed grants of £500 to 1,003 theatre freelance workers in its latest wave of funding aim…
Budget 2021 doubles creative tax relief rates
DCMS gets a £600m boost next year but a £270m arts education pledge has been dropped.
Medway creative sector gets Levelling Up boost
A Medway theatre is one of three local creative sector projects due to share £14.4m in Levelling Up funding. The first tranc…
Rishi isn’t coming to the rescue
This week’s budget shows that there’s no easy path to high wages and low ticket prices in theatre. So what’s nex…
New NPOs must meet undecided targets for funding
Arts Council England will remove its sector support organisation category and ask boards to take "a more active rol…
Printmakers to lead European refugee arts project
A Europe-wide project for refugee artists has opened for applications. In from the Margins offers artists from refugee a…
Thousands support art funds for young people petition
A petition urging the Government to keep manifesto promises around arts funding for young people has received more than 20,000 sig…
Arts Council England ‘confident’ ahead of Spending Review
Internal documents show the funder transferred millions from its primary funding streams to bolster the Culture Recovery Fund…
Science Museum slammed over ‘reckless’ sponsorship deal
The museum has relied on a technicality to sidestep its own standards for corporate partnerships.
LGBTIQ+ development programme reopens
Brighton's Malborough Productions has opened applications to the fourth year of its New Queers on the Block development p…
Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory stops production
Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory has announced it will stop producing plays after 21 years. Sited at Bristol's Tobacco…
Local authorities’ culture offer hinges on Spending Review
Councils call for an extra £400,000 funding for arts and culture as venues in smaller authorities face life-threatening…
Digital pivot reverses as theatres struggle to monetise online shows
The trend has raised fears about diminishing access for disabled audiences – but research suggests they too are starting to…
Art Fund awards £650k in new grants scheme
Art Fund has announced the first wave of winners for its £2m Reimagine grants programme. Twenty-two museums, galleries, hist…
Levelling down London’s HE sector
Universities in the capital are set to lose nearly £80m in funding for arts courses. Diana Beech fears this will further wid…
Tech enabling creativity
One of the most powerful things to emerge during the pandemic is the importance of the arts to our wellbeing. Gilane Tawadros says…
UK Government pledges to address Glasgow culture funding crisis
The UK Government has said it will help Glasgow address its culture funding crisis. The city’s cultural operator Glasgow Lif…
Futureproofing the museum sector
Sarah Philp explores the challenge of developing funding to get more people to visit museums and see more art.
Scotland hires freelancers as arts tutors
Up to 50 freelancers will be employed as arts tutors in some of Scotland's most remote and culturally distinctive communities….
Few of ACE’s priority places are among the lowest funded
Fifty-four priority areas for investment have high rates of deprivation and low cultural engagement, but some of the low…
£270m arts premium for schools on hold
The quiet suspension of the election pledge is "sadly another example of the disregard shown by the Department for Education…
£330k boost for music export scheme
A grants programme to help UK music companies market their products and projects overseas has been given a £330,000 boost. T…
Swansea Council opens £50k Cultural Fund
Swansea Council has opened a £50,000 Cultural Fund to help its local arts and culture sector bounce back from…
