A ten-year plan and a new approach to funding aim to demonstrate more support for arts organisations and provide greater clarity about its role and remit.
A withering letter signed by senior academics raises serious concerns about the recent ACE review of the impact of the arts and the lack of scholarship and consultation with researchers in the field.
ACW’s new five-year strategy rejects single artform strategies, defines the obligations of National companies and pledges to recognise the role of activity that straddles the subsidised and commercial sectors.
Boris Johnson highlights recent successes and sets out plans to help buskers and artists, but little is planned to improve access to culture in London’s outer boroughs.
The first written evidence to be published by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee reveals deep divisions in the sector over the London/regions funding balance.
Too few people speak out about their giving, say major donors, but the Charities Aid Foundation suggests that US-style philanthropy is neither practical nor necessarily desirable in the UK.
