Hodge steps down from Stratford East board to lead ACE review
Theatre Royal Stratford East has announced that Dame MARGARET HODGE will be stepping down as chair at the end of February after se…
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Theatre bosses call for £500m for building repairs
Co-CEOs of the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) & UK Theatre, Claire Walker and Hannah Essex, have called for the government t…
Moutry reappointed chair of Theatres Trust
Culture Secretary LISA NANDY has reappointed DAVE MOUTREY as chair of Theatres Trust for a further three years. Two trustees, dire…
Welsh government unveils extra £4.4m for arts, culture and publishing
The Welsh government has announced an additional £4.4m to support the arts, culture and publishing sectors in 2025-2026. The extr…
US artists protest funder’s anti-diversity rules
Hundreds of artists in the US are calling on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to reject the Trump administration’s orde…
MEND funding recipients share £25m
The government has announced £24.8m of funding for the fourth round of the Museum Estates and Development (MEND) Fund. Twenty-nin…
A digital strategy for the UK cultural sector
Researcher Susan Oman spent two years embedded within DCMS on a policy fellowship. Here they explain why the resultant digital pol…
ACE review to look at safeguarding funding decisions from political gain
An independent review of Arts Council England (ACE) will assess how decisions about arts and culture funding can be safeguarded ag…
ACE review panel named
The government has named the advisory panel of senior figures from across the cultural sector that will support a review of Arts C…
Fears of donations slump after Trump takes over Kennedy Center
Former board members of the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC, ousted by President Trump, fear his political focus on the pe…
Labour announces over £100m in new funding for arts, culture and heritage
The government has unveiled a £270m funding package for the arts, culture, libraries and heritage sector in England, including mo…
Peers criticise ‘unconscionable’ British Council Covid loan repayments
Members of the House of Lords have called on government to forgive a £200m loan made to the British Council during the pandemic,…
Nandy named among cabinet ministers thought to be at risk in spring resuffle
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is among government ministers whose positions may be under threat in a spring cabinet reshuffle by Pr…
Labour commits £64m of levelling-up funding for UK culture projects
The government has confirmed £64m funding for nine UK culture projects, despite warning in its Autumn Budget that it was “minde…
MPs probe PwC’s ‘cosy’ contract for ‘flawed’ Covid loan management system
Senior civil servants from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have been quizzed by MPs over the decision to hand P…
DCMS faces questions on Covid loan book ‘conflict of interest’
Senior civil servants have faced scrutiny from MPs over whether the management of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s Co…
Soft power: The role of culture in a hyper-globalised world
The new Soft Power Council has been set up in response to a volatile world at a time when democracy is in peril. So, writes Meliss…
Henley urges investment in cultural education
Addressing inequality in cultural education requires sustained long-term investment, not “short-term governmental funding cycles”,…
CreaTech: A lever for growth?
A new report on the intersection of creativity and technology – CreaTech – is published this week. Its findings, according to…
Music education hubs facing £160m ‘black hole’
There is a £32.3m annual budget shortfall between the demands being placed on music education hubs to deliver the National Plan f…
Making a difference in cultural policy
The Cultural Policy Unit is a new, independent think tank dedicated to formulating bold, imaginative and practical policy ideas in…
Key dates for the arts sector in 2025
As 2025 gets into swing, the year ahead will bring a raft of events that will have significant implications for the arts and cultu…
Peers seek to tackle Royal Albert Hall ‘conflict of interest’
A group of peers is seeking to amend legislation to prevent trustees of the Royal Albert Hall profiting from selling tickets they…
LAMDA chair urges government action on drama schools ‘crisis’
Shaun Woodward, the outgoing chair of LAMDA (the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), has urged the government to take actio…
