Arts and media stars join campaign to support creative sector workers

One in seven practitioners working in the creative industries have said their finances will run out by the end of April, and half of over 2,000 respondents to a recent survey said they could only last until the end of June. The Creative Industries Federation, which conducted the survey, said: "We cannot allow the UK to lose half of its creative businesses and become a cultural wasteland… we must act, and act fast."

More than 400 high profile figures working in the cultural and creative sectors have co-signed an open letter, drafted by Caroline Norbury, CEO of the Creative Industries Federation and Creative England, calling on Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden and Chancellor Rishi Sunak to provide urgent funding for organisations impacted by the fallout of Covid-19.