Legacy grants totalling £18m announced by Foyle Foundation
Funding for legacy projects ‘of long-term benefit, national importance and strategic value’ has been announced by The Foyle Fo…
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Scottish literary festival director departs after 20 years
ADRIAN TURPIN will step down as director of Wigtown Book Festival after 20 years of being involved with the annual event. Turpin b…
English Heritage launches poetry initiative
A pilot project to celebrate England’s everyday heritage through poetry has been launched by English Heritage. The initiative, w…
British Library gets Japanese backing for £1.1bn expansion
A ‘groundbreaking’ £1.1bn new development on the British Library’s St Pancras site will go ahead after a Japanese real estate c…
Trump orders ‘elimination’ of US agency funding museums and libraries
US President Donald Trump has signed orders for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to be “eliminated”. The Art Ne…
Campaign group protests Lambeth libraries funding cut
A demonstration has taken place in protest over cuts to library funding in Lambeth. Lambeth Council is planning a £1m cut to its…
ACE-supported project to write poetry at football clubs
Arts Council England (ACE) and the National Literacy Trust (NLT) are collaborating on a new project aiming to boost creative writi…
School Library Association appoints new leader
VICTORIA DILLY has been appointed CEO of the School Library Association (SLA). Dilly has worked in the education sector for almost…
EXCLUSIVE: NPOs merge following ACE talks
Two poetry charities have joined forces following discussions with Arts Council England (ACE) in what is the first merger of two m…
The power of nine: Creating a community of digital practice in library services
What happens to a library’s capacity for creative expression and innovation when knowledge is shared among nine services? asks T…
NPO championing marginalised writers to close
An Arts Council England-funded literary agency set up to increase diversity in the publishing industry is to close at the end of M…
DCMS backs £5m writing centre in Newcastle
A Newcastle-based creative centre for writing and publishing will receive £5m funding from the Department for Culture Media and S…
Royal Society of Literature chair and director depart amid governance review
The director and chair of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) have both resigned. Director MOLLY ROSENBERG announced she will st…
Digital Spaces in Libraries programme launches
A new programme designed to transform the way communities interact with digital creativity will launch this year, it has been anno…
Library destroyed by riots reopens after community response
A Liverpool library and community hub forced to close after being vandalised during the summer has reopened following an outpourin…
Co-creation boosts young people’s library engagement
Almost 90% of young people from marginalised groups felt more welcome in libraries after co-creating projects with them, new resea…
Libraries should capitalise on appeal as community hubs, report recommends
Promoting libraries as social spaces could help overcome access barriers, a new report finds. Carried out on behalf of the Departm…
ACE invests further in disability book project
Arts Council England (ACE) has confirmed further funding for the next stage of the Reflecting Disability project. The project, led…
British Library installs ‘immense’ solar heat system as it aims for net zero
The British Library has unveiled a solar heat project to help maintain the temperature and humidity conditions needed to preserve…
ACE outlines plans to support independent bookshops
Arts Council England pledges to develop a 'compelling case to government' around the value of independent bookshops to cul…
Library Campaign lodges complaint against Croydon to DCMS
The Library Campaign has submitted a formal complaint to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) against London Borough…
‘No easy answer’ for library funding, warns Bryant
Local authority spending on public libraries fell by 47% in real terms between 2009/10 and 2022/23.
Libraries call for government talks over ‘closure crisis’
More than 180 council-run libraries in the UK have either closed or been handed to volunteer groups in the past eight years.
National Centre for Children’s Literature to close
Scottish venue which opened in 2019 in the building which helped inspire author JM Barrie to write Peter Pan has been losing money…
