Policy

DCMS announces economic model for deciding cultural funding

21 Jan 2021

The pound-per-use value of some cultural and heritage activities has been calculated in a startling series of reports that could signal a sea change in funding decisions.

Policy

Research

Cross artform

Museums and heritage

Arts funding

How racist are you?

A Black person covering their each eye with their hands, palms facing towards the camera

22 Oct 2020

Feature

Unconsicous bias can leave even well-meaning organisations with blind spots on diversity and inclusion. Roxan Kamali-Sarvestani explains what they can do to avoid this – and how Talawa Theatre Company is supporting them.

Policy

Diversity

Equality

Resilience: the responsibility of the system, not the people

06 Oct 2020

Opinion

An ongoing and unspoken sense of crisis has driven those working in the performing arts to accept an intolerable range of behaviours as the norm. Emma Jayne Park questions the underlying structures supporting a system that requires endless resilience simply to survive.

Governance

Policy

Health and wellbeing

Risk versus reward

11 Sep 2020

Opinion

England’s arts organisations will be asked to make decisions that affect more than people’s livelihoods.

Ventilation – How to breathe life into theatre

07 Aug 2020

Opinion

Venue operators should be rightly angry that the Government continues to insist that social distancing is the main route to making their auditoriums safe, says Liz Hill.

Policy

Covid-19

Coronavirus

Free to speak? Not if you work in the arts

A photo of statues of angels, one with a gag over its mouth

20 Feb 2020

Feature

As ArtsProfessional unveils the explosive findings from its recent Freedom of Expression survey, Liz Hill examines the soul of a sector that believes it is owed artistic freedom but doesn’t tolerate freedom of speech within its own ranks.

Head to head: can a toolkit solve the sector’s class problem?

14 Nov 2019

Feature

This year Jerwood Arts published a toolkit for cultural organisations, designed to encourage greater socio-economic diversity in the arts. Julie Lomax, Chief Executive of a-n The Artists Information Company, sees it as a starting point for helping solve the sector’s ‘class crisis’ – but arts consultant Chrissie Tiller isn’t so sure.

Touring visa offer 'not compatible' with Brexit goals

19 Jan 2021

News

DCMS Minister Caroline Dinenage says the EU did not offer work permits and the Government is focussed on navigating the new landscape rather than negotiating.

Keep calm and clarify

Twitter loading screen on a phone resting on a cardboard box

19 Jan 2021

Feature

Rowan Kerek Robertson offers practical advice on protecting yourself and your organisation from online abuse – and what to do when the worst happens.

Fury and disbelief over claims UK rejected visa-free touring

13 Jan 2021

News

Parliament will debate whether visa-free work permits should be renegotiated as the Government blames Brussels for rejecting its "ambitious" proposals.

Fears build over immigration rules for incoming artists

08 Jan 2021

News

Complex rules, higher costs and visa requirements are set to place new barriers to EU artists working in the UK, even for short-term contracts or single gigs.

Second round loans will be at least £1m each

17 Dec 2020

News

100 or fewer organisations will benefit from the next round of England's Culture Recovery Fund repayable finance.

£166m in loans comes with promise of new grants

RSC auditorium with audience waitig for a performance

10 Dec 2020

News

A further £400m of Culture Recovery Fund grants and loans has been earmarked for extending another "helping hand" to organisations facing failure before April.

Scottish organisations call for Culture Act

09 Dec 2020

News

An eight-point manifesto asks campaigning parties to commit to a National Arts Force and new Office for Cultural Exchange ahead of the country's election.

Regional venues rail against 'illogical' Tier 3 restrictions

02 Dec 2020

News

Organisations and local authorities say its unfair and uneconomical to place harsher limits on cultural venues than gyms and hairdressers, as they trumpet their benefits to the nation's health.

Culture-led funding or funding-led culture?

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02 Dec 2020

Feature

There is a crucial disconnect between how the sector evaluates the impact of culture and using it to influence policy. It’s time to reset the wheel, say Ben Walmsley and Emma McDowell.

Policy

Research

Spending Review 2020 offers slim support for the arts

25 Nov 2020

News

The Government will more than double DCMS' budget but the extra funding all but vanishes in 2022.

'No evidence' of Covid transmission in well-ventilated, socially distanced spaces

24 Nov 2020

News

The Government has permitted venues to open with up to 50% capacity from early December. What does the science say?

Covid winter plan: indoor performance allowed in England's lower tiers

24 Nov 2020

News

A new, tougher system of local restrictions will allow theatres and other venues to reopen in theory. But the sector remains on a knife edge.

Fund us like art depends on it

18 Nov 2020

Feature

Susan Jones says freelance artists carry a unique economic burden that has left them vulnerable to the vicissitudes of Covid-19. An answer lies in a funding model that doesn’t take their livelihoods for granted.