Spending Review: Major cultural organisations told to ‘review pay and cut workforce’
Efforts to cut DCMS spending by £52m will see the government department and all the public bodies it sponsors compelled to adopt…
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Sting makes ‘major donation’ to Gateshead gallery Baltic’s £10m endowment fund
The musician, Sting, has made a ‘major donation’ to a contemporary art gallery in Gateshead to kickstart its bid to raise a £…
£225m National Lottery fund for projects tackling inequality opens
A new £225 million National Lottery fund aiming to help deliver “a fairer, stronger and more resilient future for communities a…
Culture Select Committee chair criticises real-terms DCMS cuts as ‘wrong choice’
Government plans to cut the day-to-day spending budget of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) over the next three y…
Spending Review: Government pledges additional £400m for DCMS… in 2028
Government will increase funding for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) by 25% in 2028/29 although day-to-day spen…
Northern Ireland’s arts sector worse off now than before peace agreement
In 2000, political leaders described the arts as essential to building a shared future. Why, then, is Northern Ireland’s arts se…
Fund for North East creative businesses reopens
A fund dedicated to supporting creative businesses across the North East of England has relaunched. The next round of the North Ea…
ACE to introduce ‘light touch’ reporting for NPOs
Arts Council England will introduce “flexible” and “light-touch” reporting requirements for members of its National Portfolio, as…
DCMS awards Tate Liverpool £12m for redevelopment
Tate Liverpool has been handed £12m of government funding to redevelop its gallery on the city’s Royal Albert Dock. Alongside the…
Hidden funders: Is anyone out there?
The charity sector is increasingly asking one urgent question: where has all the funding gone? With a growing sense that tradition…
ACNI announces annual funding awards with ‘modest uplift’
Art Council Northern Ireland (ACNI) has announced the grant recipients from its Annual Funding Programme (AFP) for 2025/2026, prov…
Welsh government announces £8m capital investment fund for arts organisations
Arts organisations in Wales are being invited to apply to a £8m capital investment programme. The Arts Sector Strategic Capital I…
AHRC funding formula will strengthen arts research, says vice-chancellor
A new funding formula from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) will help to strengthen research in the arts, the vi…
Oldham Coliseum reopening delayed
The reopening of Oldham Coliseum has been delayed after previously unidentified asbestos was discovered. The theatre, which is mor…
More than half of NPOs in ‘financial peril’
Over 500 cultural organisations in receipt of regular funding from Arts Council England are in a “precarious financial position”,…
Paris theatre ‘hung out to dry’ by council after €3m loss due to occupation
A theatre in Paris that shut for more than five months after being occupied by hundreds of unhoused young people has said it incur…
ACE ‘considering use of AI’ for administrative tasks
Arts Council England (ACE) could start using artificial intelligence to carry out administrative tasks as part of efforts to impro…
Government earmarks £132.5m for young people’s music and drama
Young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods will be given the opportunity to take part in music and drama activities paid for wit…
Council agrees to fund theatre refurbishment
A £285,000 refurbishment of an arts centre in Wantage, Oxfordshire, has been approved. The BBC reports that the money from Vale o…
Arts leaders call for end to ‘activist negativity’ around corporate arts sponsorship
Major national arts organisations, including the National Theatre and The Old Vic, have supported an open letter arguing for great…
Arts ‘integral’ to government’s vision says Nandy ahead of £85m building fund launch
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said arts and culture are “integral to this government’s vision for the future” ahead of th…
Fundraisers report ongoing woes with ‘hideous’ Grantium system
Users of Arts Council England’s much-maligned Grantium platform have been expressing their frustration after the system went down…
Culture sector ‘depends on freelancers not just organisations’
Direct funding and structural support for artists should be considered equally as vital as investment in arts organisations, the f…
Bryant seeks to ‘bury’ DCMS abolition rumours
Arts Minister Chris Bryant has rejected suggestion that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) could be abolished. Spe…
