The commissioning game

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19 Feb 2014

Do commissions from funding bodies based on measurable outcomes really benefit arts organisations? Ross Harvie reflects on the issue.

Shadow Culture Minister stands up for the regions

04 Feb 2014

Arts Council England must act to avert the regional crisis growing from local authority arts funding cuts, says Helen Goodman.

DCMS pulled strings to support the National Funding Scheme

31 Jan 2014

The digital fundraising pilot scheme was granted almost £100k from Arts Council England’s ‘hidden’ strategic fund and is now being rolled out nationally.

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27 Jan 2014

Sarah Stannage warns that many arts organisations may be missing out on European and Government funding available through Local Enterprise Partnerships.

ACE budgets £10.3m for hidden projects

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24 Jan 2014

Arts Council England (ACE) is this year budgeting £10.3m for ‘strategic funding’ of projects for which there is neither an application procedure nor a tendering process.

Parliament to take up the regional arts funding baton

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17 Jan 2014

A House of Commons Select Committee has opened an inquiry into the work of Arts Council England and its regional funding policies.

NPO scheme to merge ACE grant in aid and Lottery funding

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08 Jan 2014

End of an era for England’s arts funding as ACE drops additionality requirements and prepares to support core funded organisations from both Lottery and grant in aid revenues.

More DCMS cuts will see ACE grant in aid budget squeezed again

20 Dec 2013

Arts Council England prepares to cut NPOs again next year, but strategic funding will take the hit from 2015/16.

Sector says no to using Lottery funding for core activity

06 Dec 2013

AP’s first Pulse survey has revealed that three-quarters want a separate application process for Lottery funding and two-thirds reject the use of arts Lottery cash for the core funding of NPOs.

Better access will make the arts vote winners, says Goodman

29 Nov 2013

Labour calls for Lottery money to be better attuned to the different regional needs and communities.

Fairer funding call by regional theatres

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21 Nov 2013

Receiving venues are lobbying MPs to intervene for a fairer share of Lottery funding in the regions.

European cooperation

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21 Nov 2013

Christoph Jankowski introduces Creative Europe, the new EU funding progamme for the cultural and creative sectors.

Briefing reveals ACE intentions for Lottery

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14 Nov 2013

Festivals, circus and participatory arts are set to be deemed additional to core arts activity as ACE prepares to fund some National Portfolio Organisations entirely from Arts Lottery revenues.

New ACE strategy: Keep calm and carry on…

08 Nov 2013

Arts Council England's update of its 10-year 'strategic framework' makes for sober and serious reading. But while there are no dramatic changes in its ambitions and priorities, Mark Robinson finds a worrying lack of solutions for cash-strapped artists and no recognition of the regional imbalance in arts funding.

A simple proposition

07 Nov 2013

Peter Stark, Christopher Gordon and David Powell provide a personal reflection on reactions to Rebalancing Our Cultural Capital, their analysis of England’s regional funding landscape.

National media stoke the regional arts funding debate

01 Nov 2013

ACE blames local authorities while DCMS points to the Lottery as the sector starts to examine the regional arts funding imbalance.

Tipping the balance

31 Oct 2013

If ‘access for everyone’ is the policy goal, then regional funding is the elephant in the room, says Liz Hill.

New figures reveal the true extent of the London/regions divide

London from above
30 Oct 2013

An ongoing funding bias towards London is denying huge proportions of England’s population fair access to the arts, according to a new independent report by three senior arts figures.

Lottery Wars take a new turn

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04 Oct 2013

A new threat to arts funding is emerging as the Health Lottery partners with the betting industry in its battle to take a bigger slice of the market.

What prevents rich people from giving?

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30 Sep 2013

Theresa Lloyd and Beth Breeze share some insights from their study of the attitudes and habits of potential donors.

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