£14.5m for AI to curate national heritage collection
AHRC’s investment will support artificially intelligent programmes to create unified virtual collections of the UK’s m…
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Auction to split proceeds equally between artists
Educational arts charity Art UK has opened an auction fundraiser which will split proceeds equally between all participa…
Birmingham 2022 releases festival details
Birmingham 2022 has released details of the six-month festival set to run across the West Midlands as part of the Commonwealth Gam…
Dormant accounts invested in arts development scheme
£500,000 of unclaimed money has been granted to a development programme for Northern Irish arts organisations. Arts & Bu…
Northern Ireland opens £5m recovery programme
A recovery funding programme for Northern Irish creatives has been opened by Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) and the…
Giving circles and the arts
Philanthropy is sometimes described as a ‘privilege’ of the wealthiest. But, as Michelle Wright argues, research sugge…
Tie funding to compliance with employment law, MPs say
The sector and its funders must adopt measurable diversity targets or risk losing "an entire generation of talent".
London invests £1.3m into creative jobs
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced £1.3m for the city's Creative Enterprise Zones (CEZs) as part of a plan to do…
£50k for Northern Ireland ethnic artists
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has made £50,000 available for a new programme supporting artists from a minority ethni…
Sheffield ‘starved’ of arts funding
Sheffield receives less arts funding than Manchester despite having a larger population. Analysis by The Star found that…
Cross party MPs go in to bat for Glasgow
Scotland’s Labour and Conservative parties are calling on the Scottish and UK Governments to agree a new funding deal for Gl…
Let’s create austerity
It’s been over a year since Arts Council England published its 10-year strategy, Let’s Create. Bethany Rex has be…
Wales’ arts funders ‘shouldn’t force white-led organisations to diversify’
A report commissioned by the Arts Council of Wales says it is entrenched in white supremacy and has ignored calls for change….
Local authority culture budgets increase post-Covid
The increased spending may not indicate increased investment, as councils are forced to compensate for income lost during Covid-19…
National Plan for Music education revived with expert panel
DfE has resurrected the long-delayed plan as industry and researchers warn music A-levels could disappear from some regions by&nbs…
Third Culture Recovery Fund round to open
£150m is available to previous grantees only, with a special sustainability programme for the highest-funded applicants.
ACE access support costs £1m during pandemic
There's no word on a long overdue upgrade to Grantium – the reason for most requests. Those providing acc…
Advantaged areas won more Culture Recovery Fund money
Places that have fewer National Portfolio Organisations and less buy-in from local authorities may struggle to access other fundin…
London’s Creative Enterprise Zones to double
City Hall is investing £3m to grow the scheme, which has supported 300 cultural organisations and 1,000 jobs through the pan…
Creative sector R&D crucial to post-pandemic recovery
A landmark report makes the case for investment ahead of the next Spending Review, saying innovation is being stifled just as it i…
City of Culture 2025 contest attracts explosion of interest
Adding a seventh city to the longlist of bidders who will receive funding would allow more places to "complete their jou…
MPs launch inquiry into National Lottery licence contest
The DCMS Committee is concerned Camelot, the current Lottery operator, has not increased returns to the arts at the same rate as i…
£34.9bn needed for UK creative industries to ‘bounce back’ by 2025
New modelling from Oxford Economics says the country's creative sectors can more than recover from the loss of 100,000 jobs wi…
Creative degree applications rise as university arts funding halved
Confirmation of the higher arts education cuts comes as applications to study these subjects reach their highest level in a d…
