Arts Audiences
Starmer: Everyone ‘deserves chance to be touched by art’
Prime Minister Keir Starmer uses Labour Party conference speech to re-emphasise his aim to improve accessibility to arts and culture.
Creative education in London gets £3.6m boost
Programme aims to address barriers that have discouraged and prevented cultural education and arts in schools from thriving.
Museum scheme to support early child development launches
Museums across the UK will work on ways to use culture to support children in their early years as part of a £1m pilot programme. Funded by Art Fund, the national charity for…
Theatre launches half-term ‘pay what you can’ scheme
Norwich Theatre is offering a creative programme for children that will be accessible on a 'pay what you can' basis. Aimed at children aged seven to 15, the scheme, which r…
Natural History Museum plans £150m transformation
Museum's Director says works are part of institution's ambition to become a "catalyst for change" on environmental issues.
DfE launches £5.8m music education programme
Young Sounds UK will work in collaboration with local Music Hub partners to deliver the four-year programme.
Save the Children pulls out of museum event over sponsorship
Save the Children has pulled out of an event at London's Science Museum following concerns among its supporters about the institution's sponsors. The Guardian reports the c…
Charity launches daytime events at independent music venues
Independent Venue Community says it wants to unlock the daytime potential of independent music venues, starting with a pilot programme offering young people behind-the-scenes acces…
Scottish theatre secures funds for captioning equipment
Pitlochry Festival Theatre has been awarded grants for new captioning equipment. The grants come from the Theatre Trust’s small grants programme with The Linbury Trust, as we…
Working class parents ‘unsupportive’ of creative careers
Netflix and the National Youth Theatre relaunch a skills programme aimed at young people who want to work in film and TV after research reveals impact of ‘class chasm’…
Bath council to offer free school visits at heritage sites
Bath & North East Somerset Council has launched a new scheme to enable more school children from across the country to visit the city's Roman Baths and Victoria Art Gallery…
School curriculum review ‘facing dilemmas and trade-offs’
The government has pledged to make art central to a child's education, but the person in charge of a review of the school curriculum says reform will not be easy.
Project to explore accessibility of immersive arts
Researchers at Coventry University will work with a theatre company on a project aiming to make immersive arts experiences more accessible to people with learning disabilities. The…
School librarians asked to remove books, including LGBTQ+ titles
More than half of UK school librarians have been asked to remove certain books from circulation, a new survey suggests – with the majority of those requests coming from parent…
North West suffers most music venue closures
Analysis of grassroots music venue closures during last year finds the North West to be the most impacted area, followed by London, then Yorkshire and the Humber.
Walthamstow museum to undergo £4.5m redesign
The Vestry House Museum in Walthamstow, north-east London, is to undergo a £4.5m redesign that will add creative workspaces, increase exhibition space, and adapt its his…
Creatives sought for mentoring scheme expansion
Mentoring charity Arts Emergency is seeking volunteers from the creative and cultural sectors to join them as it expands its reach to help more young people. Arts Emergency said it…
Music education ‘must adapt to industry demands’
A report has called for music education to incorporate practical and industry-relevant content and focus on skills such as networking and resilience.
Entries for arts A-levels down nearly a third since 2010
Campaign for the Arts says "urgent action" is needed from the new government to halt the decline in popularity of arts A-levels.
Partnership secures £400,000 to provide pathways into arts
A two-year project designed to bridge the gap between creative education and employment in the Staines area has been awarded £400,000 from Arts Council England. Using Staines…
