ACE defends Culture Recovery Fund distribution
Serota and Henley told MPs they could not have handled the emergency funding response any better, failing to acknowledge the&…
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50% of comedy workers have lost half their income, survey suggests
Comedians are making just 5% of their pre-pandemic income from streamed shows while half of off-stage workers have no live gigs bo…
‘Priority places’ list to guide increased ACE investment
New capital and business development programmes are in the pipeline as ACE looks to "refresh" the criteria for exis…
‘Market failure’ in events insurance must be addressed, sector says
If the Government is confident in getting events back by June 21, it shouldn't hesitate to extend insurance beyond its pilot p…
£262m awarded for second round of Culture Recovery Fund
Some organisations have managed to double dip as more than 1,200 receive support from the emergency arts funding scheme for the fi…
Beyond Culture Recovery
The distribution of Arts Council England’s Culture Recovery Fund has attracted widespread criticism, not least from those ca…
Manchester culture worth £292m pre-pandemic
Manchester City Council is urgently refreshing its culture rescue plan as annual analysis shows arts organisations' value to t…
V&A’s Theatre and Performance archive ‘at risk of becoming a dead collection’
Staff restructuring proposals that threaten the museum department have been condemned as a "devastatingly bad idea&…
Why members might leave you – and what you can do about it
Museums’ survival depends on their members – and post-pandemic they're voting with their feet. Julia Protesaru pro…
Arts remain at ‘epicentre of the crisis’ a year after lockdown
Freelancers, young people, women and live performance art forms have been disproportionately affected by a year of lockdowns….
An unacceptable truth
To describe the past year as unprecedented is an understatement. Just don’t make the mistake of thinking anything has really…
NPO income takes £38.3m downward turn
An upward trend over recent years has reversed – and it's not all because of the pandemic.
Cutting through the noise
Many organisations are struggling to attract income during the pandemic. Merrin Kalinowski and Nathaniel Hepburn explore how crowd…
Invest in making an impact
Fran Sanderson says building back better means looking beyond what – and who – we know in funding to demonstrate the i…
Freelancers charter to underpin ‘new normal’ in London
London Mayor commits to supporting self-employed creatives who are under pressure to accept poorer terms once government support i…
Just over half of emergency arts funding has been distributed
An investigation into the Culture Recovery Fund found £335m of awarded funds were still sitting in DCMS' coffers last mo…
Music education must be ‘front and centre’ as schools return
The Government faces calls to ensure music education is part of the catch-up curriculum after up to 10% of schools stopped teachin…
Budget 2021 receives a warm welcome from arts sector (freelancers excluded)
Another £300m for the Culture Recovery Fund, a wider safety net for the self-employed, and continued VAT and business r…
Fighting online fatigue
Funders and audiences are losing their appetite for virtual events, writes Michelle Wright. What comes next for arts fundraising?&…
Only 15% of ‘BAME-led organisations’ awarded emergency grants definitively are
New research highlights a disparity between organisations that say they are BAME-led receiving higher funding awards than those wi…
Invest 50p per person in culture for Covid-19 recovery, manifesto urges
Local authorities in Yorkshire and the Humber are being called on to "defend and when possible increase" spend…
Selling collections must be subject to scrutiny
Sharon Heal challenges a museum chair’s view that ethics are a matter of ‘emotion’.
A moral failure in cultural policy
Underpaid artists have become caretakers for communities that commissioners want to say they’re supporting. Eleonora Belfior…
Culture’s value is a matter of politics
What do we learn when we apply DCMS’ new framework for valuing culture to a controversial statue? Robert Hewison gives it a…
