Sheffield ‘starved’ of arts funding
Sheffield receives less arts funding than Manchester despite having a larger population. Analysis by The Star found that…
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Crewe Lyceum celebrates 110 years
Crewe Lyceum has reopened as it celebrates its 110th birthday. It enjoyed a busy reopening last weekend, welcoming visitors for th…
Creative and cultural industries generated £150bn pre-pandemic
The UK's creative and cultural industries generated £150.4bn in 2019, according to new data. DCMS figures show the indus…
UK City of Culture competition in need of redesign
The UK City of Culture is a DCMS success story by any standards. But, as Andrew Dixon explains, serious flaws in this year’s…
Covid-19 crushed Swansea’s City of Culture plan
Swansea Council says the pandemic changed its plans to enter the UK City of Culture 2025 contest. The city bid for the title…
Advantaged areas won more Culture Recovery Fund money
Places that have fewer National Portfolio Organisations and less buy-in from local authorities may struggle to access other fundin…
London’s Creative Enterprise Zones to double
City Hall is investing £3m to grow the scheme, which has supported 300 cultural organisations and 1,000 jobs through the pan…
City of Culture 2025 contest attracts explosion of interest
Adding a seventh city to the longlist of bidders who will receive funding would allow more places to "complete their jou…
£34.9bn needed for UK creative industries to ‘bounce back’ by 2025
New modelling from Oxford Economics says the country's creative sectors can more than recover from the loss of 100,000 jobs wi…
Cultural vaccination centres an opportunity to reach new audiences
Art galleries hosting pop-up sites hope to capitalise on increased footfall and reconnect with young locals.
Coventry 2021 weighs options around social distancing
The City of Culture must take audiences' comfort into account, its Creative Director says, as the upcoming change to restricti…
‘No guarantee’ of funding for UK City of Culture 2025 winner
The contest will continue into 2029 and beyond, with £40,000 grants to develop longlisted applications regardless…
Bradford cultural strategy to ‘harness the power of our diversity’
The city aims to add 3,000 jobs to its cultural sector by 2031 – half of them from underrepresented groups – as its cu…
Rehearsal complex to be a ‘godsend’ for freelancers
New Diorama Theatre will open a free workspace in July, welcoming up to 80,000 creatives per year: "We would be delighted if…
DCMS revives £42m Culture Investment Fund
Grants of up to £5m are available for capital works outside of London, while libraries and museums are also eligible fo…
‘Very good news’: Huge optimism as partial venue reopening confirmed
London launches a massive domestic tourism campaign as England progresses to the next stage of the reopening roadmap.
Reshaping our places and communities post-Covid
Cultural organisations can play a key role in creating thriving places for people to live, work and visit, but only if they reach…
A year of reorientation in the Borough of Brent
Lois Stonock planned the London Borough of Culture 2020 to respond to Brexit. Then Brent became home to one of the UK’s firs…
Don’t leave your community out in the cold
What does it mean to have a civic role in challenging times? Andrew Barnett and Deborah Bull discuss.
Visible and viable: why a Cultural Quarter makes sense
Swindon's new Cultural Quarter – an £80m development by Swindon Council – will be the first thing visitors s…
The public art of placemaking
Public art can connect us to the places, landscapes and buildings where we live. Lindsey Hebden explains what that means in practi…
People need places (and vice versa)
Caitlin Warfield writes that the future of culture and business in urban centres depends on their ability to work together.
Compact to secure Liverpool as ‘UK’s second City of Culture’
Liverpool has a new five-year strategy to reboot the region by building a more inclusive coalition from its creative workforce, wh…
Coventry 2021 will be ‘a return to live’
The UK City of Culture year will press ahead with a full calendar of festivals and events from May 15 – two days before the…
