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75 years of Arts Council and the amateur arts
As he reflects on Arts Council England’s 75th anniversary, Robin Simpson thinks it’s not unfair to say it has never quite known what to do about the amateur arts.
Research commissioned by DCMS and ACE in 2008 - Our Creative Talent - revealed that there are 49,140 formally constituted amateur arts groups in England, regularly involving 9.4 million people.&n...
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