Cuts and restructures have damaged relationships between arts organisations and local authorities, with community organisations an…

Linden Rowley interviews Christian Markandu about the priorities for his commissioning service and the opportunities for arts and…

Guy Nicholson shares his views on the changing role of local government in supporting London’s arts and culture.

Local authorities in the UK’s largest cities are calling for a fairer share of government arts funding and devolution of cul…

London’s boroughs are relying on Arts Council England to make good a shortfall in their own arts funding relative to local a…

Cultural services have seen bigger cuts than social care but are not the worst affected, according to a National Audit Office repo…

It is becoming increasingly less likely that culture and arts services will be able to play a meaningful part in delivering the Go…

Greater fairness in Lottery funding would help to redress the wider geographic arts funding imbalance that sees London benefit &ld…

Local authority cuts mean that some libraries are no longer lending music scores to amateur groups. Barbara Eifler explains why sh…

The trend for closing arts services is continuing, with over a third of local authorities in England and Wales left with no arts o…

NLGN praises local authorities seeking new models for delivering arts and culture, and calls on more to do the same in the face of…

Government announces extra funds and ends fears that local authorities will be asked to terminate music services.

Shadow Culture Minister used Freedom of Information to reveal the impact of Government cuts on local authority spend on culture an…

The distribution of Lottery funding for the arts is a closed system, operating for the benefit of a small number of arts organisat…

The Department for Education is warning that there should be no money in local authority education budgets for extra-curricular mu…

Can our theatres be considered as ‘community theatres’ and be listed as Assets of Community Value? Mhora Samuel discus…

Partnerships with Defra, local authorities and LEPs will be key to delivering the Arts Council’s strategy in rural communiti…

Do commissions from funding bodies based on measurable outcomes really benefit arts organisations? Ross Harvie reflects…

Arts Council England must act to avert the regional crisis growing from local authority arts funding cuts, says Helen Goodman.

Gillian Taylor looks at how festivals can involve communities in making site-responsive works that create a sense of pride in lost…

Arts Development UK’s latest survey on arts spending in local authorities in England and Wales reveals a "dramatic and…

Greater collaboration between local authorities could improve opportunities for instrumental music tuition in Scotland, says lates…