Barbican Centre needs £450m for repairs
London's Barbican Centre is in need of more than £450m for essential works, the City of London Corporation has said. The…
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Manchester arena in licensing row
Manchester City Council's licensing committee has received objections to the planned opening of the 23,500-seat Co-Op Live are…
Museum’s £4.7m extension paused due to rising costs
A £4.7m extension to Nuneaton Museum has been paused after a council review of capital projects said the expenditure in the…
Colston statue to go on permanent display
A statue of the transatlantic slave trader Edward Colston will go on display at Bristol's M Shed museum after councillors rubb…
Dismay as Birmingham Council proposes ceasing arts grants
Birmingham City Council has announced plans to remove all financial support for its regularly funded arts organisations as part of…
Equity protests Nottingham council’s proposed budget cuts
Nottingham County Council is proposing to cut its entire £198k cultural budget, as part of sweeping money saving measures &#…
Under half of England’s local authorities have a cultural strategy
Analysis from the start of last year found less than half of England’s local authorities have a publicly available cultural…
Bristol council set to vote on de-listing Colston statue
Plans to de-list a statue of the transatlantic slave trader Edward Colston so it can be permanently housed in a museum are set for…
Local authorities need the cultural sector’s support
With many councils across the country on the verge of bankruptcy, cultural services are under threat. Councillor Liz Green, Chair…
Council votes to support museum’s overbudget renovations
Ipswich Borough Council (IBC) has voted to continue supporting the redevelopment of Ipswich Museum after a £2.7m overspend….
Council pledges £300,000 to reopen Stockport’s Forum Theatre
Funding has been set aside by Stockport Council to cover repairs at the Forum Theatre in Romiley, Stockport, which has been closed…
Seafront theatre taken over by charity trust
The Guildhall Trust has taken over ownership of White Rock Theatre in Hastings. Built in 1927, the 1,000 capacity theatre is one o…
Council spending on culture drops by 43% since 2010
Council spending on cultural services fell by 43% between 2010-11 and 2022-23 in real terms, according to analysis by The Guardian…
Bournemouth Council proposes £1.7m arts funding cuts
Cost-saving proposals, which include removing the council’s arts development functions, no longer funding a local festival a…
Council plans £500k art fund after government cash boost
Suffolk County Council said that a £600m government support package to help local authorities with the cost of social care w…
Reading Council submits £13.7m theatre revamp plans
Reading Borough Council has submitted plans for a £13.7m overhaul of The Hexagon theatre. The proposals include the demoliti…
Fears council cash boost will not prompt reprieve for arts
Culture Secretary says additional £600m for local authorities will help them protect arts venues, but councils warn that the…
Talent needs a place to flourish
The King’s Head Theatre in London opened its doors this week for a gala night in celebration of its new theatre building. Ju…
East London museum awarded £800k for restoration
Valence House Museum and Gardens in Dagenham will undergo £800k improvement works after securing external investment. The re…
Somerset Council plans culture budget cuts
Cost-saving proposals include reducing support to the county’s theatres as the council faces a £100m funding shortfall…
Museum re-opens in former bank
Chatteris Museum in Cambridgeshire is reopening in a former Barclays bank branch two years after moving out of its old premises, h…
Council seeks reallocation of government cash to save arts centre
Woking Council will ask the government if it can use money provided for digital strategy to keep an arts centre open. The BBC repo…
Local authority funding cuts causing profound damage
For the fifth time since assuming the leadership of Nottingham Playhouse, Stephanie Sirr is galvanising objections to a major fund…
Councils of despair
As cuts to the arts continue to bite, Robin Cantrill-Fenwick asks why some local authorities feel able to walk away from funding o…
