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Issue 265: Connecting with tourists

  • Connecting with tourists

    01 Jul 2013

    Think it’s time to merge Lottery funding with Grant in Aid to plug the arts funding gap? Think again, says Christopher Gordon.

    John Whittingdale MP (Chairman of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee) has recently suggested that although the arts should not be singled out as exempt from the cuts facing other parts of the public sector, the Government might like to consider permitting them to use Lottery proceeds to plug the funding gap “for a limited period”. While this may sound tempting as a short-term fix, both to politicians and to the sector, the evidence from around the world suggests... more

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