Contact Theatre in Manchester is permanently adopting a four-day working week following a year-long trial. Under the arrangements…

It is possible to operate a free-to-access museum without government funding, but it comes with significant challenges, as Trish J…

One of the UK’s largest multi-venue arts centres was left without any means to take payments for tickets after global banking comp…

With the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget committing to an as-yet-unspecified ‘package of cultural infrastructure funding’, Jason…

Legislation included in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Act 2024, which could see charities lose out on bein…

In our series exploring new business models, Gill Wildman, director of Upstarter incubator, argues they need to be designed in a w…

Arts Council England and UK government should work together to develop centralised artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure to…

Four years ago, Battersea Arts Centre launched a Pay What You Can scheme to widen access to live theatre. Robbie Kings has been ev…

There is a need for changes to government policy and for sector-wide guidelines and regulations to be introduced to ensure fairer…

Study finds evidence that cultural organisations are benefitting from variable pricing and experimenting with new approaches to ti…

Government figures show a more than three-fold increase on the £75m paid out to theatres, orchestras and museums in 2021/22.

Historic venue is in its fourth year of losses despite ticket sales being up by one-third on last year.

New data show that in some cultural and creative subsectors including music, performance and visual arts, women outearned men in 2…

We've come a long way from the difficulties of recent years, and some key metrics are starting to show a positive trend. But w…

Research finds a 'huge range of effectiveness' between different cultural organisations when it comes to web pages focused…

In the first of our series looking at the role of philanthropy in arts funding, Caroline McCormick of the Cultural Philanthropy Fo…

As activity this year gathers pace, Michelle Wright explores the many quandaries arts organisations have to navigate in deciding w…

Business acumen within arts organisations is necessary in the face of local authority funding cuts, survey findings suggest.

Fewer than half of visual artists in the South West have been commissioned to create new work in the past year survey finds.

In light of the huge challenges that so many arts and culture organisations have faced in recent years, Watershed’s Clare Re…

Now more than ever it’s important to focus on the things that really matter, to free ourselves of distractions and to identi…

Nearly 100,000 tickets have been sold for forthcoming shows at the recently reopened venue, following a £132m renovation.