Wales commits to creative skills plan
The plan will facilitate creative career paths in the screen, digital content and music industries and is being launched alongside…
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ACE rejects Lowther Pavilion funding application
Supporters of a planned redevelopment of a theatre in Lancashire have vowed to push ahead with the project after Arts Council Engl…
Camelot drops legal bid to retain National Lottery
Allwyn Entertainment has officially been awarded the fourth licence to operate the National Lottery after a legal case brought by…
AHRC to invest £100m in future technologies drive
Funding will be used to establish a national studio for advanced technologies to drive developments in live theatre…
Festival cancelled over ‘funding fears’ following Queen’s death
Mixed reaction to decision to cancel music festival following death of Queen Elizabeth, amid claims of pressure to do so by funder…
Health & wellbeing fund for Welsh arts organisations reopens
Arts organisations in Wales working on projects that deliver health and wellbeing benefits are invited to apply for grants of betw…
£114k fund to promote creativity in Wakefield
Funding totalling £114,051 is being awarded as part of an ongoing grant scheme to support local culture and creativity in Wa…
Dear Culture Minister…
Michelle Donelan is the new Secretary of State for DCMS. David Hill has written an open letter on the pressing issues he…
Grant funding in need of a radical overhaul
Many funders are changing their strategies around funding for arts organisations, but Michelle Wright thinks those changes inadver…
Cost of living enquiry to explore impact on fundraising
The enquiry is one of eight scheduled over the next two years that will consider challenges facing arts, culture and heritage fund…
Manchester cultural grants programme opens
Arts and culture organisations in Manchester will be able to apply for up to £40,000 a year as part of the latest round of t…
Unboxed attracts fraction of target audience numbers
Nationwide festival Unboxed: Creativity in the UK has only reached a small portion of its intended audience, according to an inves…
ACE refuses to release ‘sensitive’ race and disability documents
A Freedom of Information request to see the minutes of the funder's Race and Disability Advisory Group is denied on the basis…
Creative Scotland reopens touring fund
Creative Scotland’s Touring Fund for Theatre and Dance has opened for a seventh round, inviting applications from companies,…
Next Prime Minister urged to reform ACE
Equity calls on Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak to reform the system of arts councils across the UK and adopt regional structures, which…
HOME Slough opens applications for arts grants
HOME Slough has launched the On Your Doorstep programme, an arts grant funding scheme that aims to bring communities together thro…
Croydon criticised for insensitive name of arts fund
Croydon Council and Executive Mayor of Croydon Jason Perry have come in for criticism for the name of their new Ignite Fund a…
New funding round for British music exports
DCMS and the Department of International Trade have committed £500,000 in new funding for the Museum Export Growth Scheme (M…
Is ACE’s diversity strategy – and reporting – fit for purpose?
Reading ACE’s latest Equality, Diversity and Inclusion data report, it appears diversity is primarily seen as the number of…
What will the next Prime Minister mean for the arts?
With two of Boris Johnson’s most senior cabinet ministers left in the running to replace him, what might the arts sector exp…
Unlimited announces £584k disability arts programme
Disabled arts commissioning body Unlimited is partnering with 17 UK organisations to deliver a funding programme for disabled arti…
Historic England funds working class history projects
Historic England has awarded 57 projects a total of £774,000 from its Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class Hi…
McKellen reopens funding programme for producers
Actor Ian McKellen has announced a second round of his funding programme designed to help theatre producers pay actors a living wa…
Arts Council NI funding streams target individual artists
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has opened a range of funding programmes to support the work of individual artists as part of…
