The Spending Review may have seemed like good news for the arts, says Mark Robinson, but cuts to local authority budgets mean that dark times could still be ahead.
I was in Westminster on Monday, celebrating the 10th anniversary of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books, where I am vice chair of trustees. Sir Peter Bazelgette asked the assembled MPs, Lords writers, illustrators and publishers to use their influence, even then, to remind the chancellor of the worth of arts funding. He certainly did not give the impression future funding was sorted and safe.
Maybe he knew, maybe not – often the small sums get altered in the late stage of budgeting. Perhaps he was simply in the habit, as the results of the spending review suggest that the chair of Arts Council England... Keep reading on a-n
I was in Westminster on Monday, celebrating the 10th anniversary of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books, where I am vice chair of trustees. Sir Peter Bazelgette asked the assembled MPs, Lords writers, illustrators and publishers to use their influence, even then, to remind the chancellor of the worth of arts funding. He certainly did not give the impression future funding was sorted and safe.
Maybe he knew, maybe not – often the small sums get altered in the late stage of budgeting. Perhaps he was simply in the habit, as the results of the spending review suggest that the chair of Arts Council England... Keep reading on a-n