Northern Ireland considers abolishing Arts Council
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has defended its independence, claiming that policy-making expertise and access to external f…
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£2m in Arts Council funding for Emma Rice’s new company is everything that’s wrong with the arts
If the national funder really cared about equality, it wouldn’t endorse a £2m application from a nine-day-old organisa…
Celebrating cultural philanthropists
With only 1% of philanthropic giving going to the arts, Caroline McCormick shares her thoughts on how the sector can convince more…
Arts Council puts Quality Metrics plans on ice
Following a halt in the procurement process, ACE now expects its new system for assessing the quality of artistic work to be up an…
How to… exhibit art without public funding
House of Illustration puts on ten exhibitions and turns over £1m every year – all without public funding. Colin McKenz…
Five cities shortlisted for UK City of Culture 2021
The UK’s smallest city, St David’s, did not make the shortlist.
Quality Metrics stalled as ACE falls foul of procurement rules
By refusing to clarify why the £2.7m tender process for the Quality Metrics scheme has come to a sudden halt, Arts Council E…
Arts Council unveils ‘significant’ fund for artists working internationally
The Creative Practitioners Fund will be used to support research and development, and will be open to people working in the wider…
Choirs just as worthy of funding as football, report argues
Across the UK, 40,000 choirs are boosting the health and wellbeing of singers, but with funding they could do much more, according…
Civically engaged arts leaders are “over-stretched”, inquiry finds
Arts organisations have a key role to play helping communities “come together, to learn, debate and celebrate” but the…
Can less really be more?
As more and more local authorities reduce funding and staffing for the arts, how can we ensure they have the capacity to fulfil th…
A modest but vital grant scheme
Sally Staples explains how East Sussex Arts Partnership has simplified its grant-giving system by match funding successful Grants…
Bidding for funding in partnership
When the six counties in the north of Wales suddenly found themselves in competition with one another for funding, they decided to…
Still going it alone
Two years after The Arts Development Company was formed to replace Dorset County Council’s arts service, Mike Hoskin gives a…
A simpler funding system
Budget cuts have forced Bristol City Council to change the system it uses to fund arts and culture activities. Philip Walker expla…
Art ‘doesn’t need to be useful’, report advises self-evaluating organisations
A new resource aims to guide arts organisations through self-assessment, whether they have chosen to do it or been asked to do so…
London boroughs to share £3m in new cultural competition
32 boroughs will compete to be named ‘London Borough of Culture’, with one taking the title in 2019 and another in 202…
Arts funding: 183 new NPOs as largest organisations take 3% cut
The number of National Portfolio Organisations will increase to 831, as museums, libraries and new ‘Sector Support Organisat…
UK grows share of ‘increasingly important’ Creative Europe funding following Brexit vote
35 creative, cultural and heritage organisations from across the UK have been awarded a combined €3.2m in funding.
Arts funding should focus on ‘everyday creativity’, researchers claim
A new academic report says that shifting cultural policy to enable people to be creative and make their own culture would be a fai…
The Times rebuked for implying Kensington and Chelsea wasted Grenfell tenants’ money on opera
The newspaper has published a small acknowledgement that Opera Holland Park, on which the council allegedly “lost” &po…
Creating cultural democracy
Only 8% of people regularly engage with publicly funded art, but every day people are creating their own versions of culture. Nick…
Lottery arts funding plummets by £55m
National Lottery operator Camelot expects “disappointing” sales to decline further this year.
Northern Ireland arts organisations hit by funding cuts
The Arts Council was unable to maintain standstill funding following orders from the Department for Communities.
