A different regeneration story in Bradford

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28 Mar 2018

Cultural regeneration in London has seen local communities priced out of their homes, but an arts organisation in Bradford is determined to prove it can work to the benefit of local people and businesses. Bernard Ginns explains how.

Loans to become increasingly important for arts organisations

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23 Mar 2018

A new Nesta report finds demand for ‘repayable finance’ is growing as the arts sector looks to increase its earned income.

Salisbury arts, theatre and music organisations merge

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23 Mar 2018

Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury Arts Centre and Salisbury International Arts Festival will be known as Wiltshire Creative and receive an annual £1.3m from Arts Council England.

London boroughs funded to develop Creative Enterprise Zones

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21 Mar 2018

£500k is being shared by eleven shortlisted boroughs to develop plans to support artists and creative businesses in their areas.

Boost for London culture in Mayor’s £24m regeneration drive

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09 Mar 2018

East London Dance and Urban Development will use the funding to create the UK’s first National Talent House for Urban Culture.

A win-win competition

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22 Feb 2018

The UK City of Culture competition brings great benefits – to the losers as well as the winners – but as more cities, towns and even villages express interest, Andrew Dixon asks if changes are needed.

Theatres Trust launches £300k building improvement scheme

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16 Feb 2018

A collaboration with the Wolfson Foundation will see theatres of all sizes eligible for up to £20k in funding this year to make their buildings more accessible.

The problem with competitive placemaking

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18 Jan 2018

Collaborative placemaking initiatives could be a much quicker route to regenerating coastal towns than waiting to win the city of culture crown, says Jason Jones-Hall.

London to get ten ‘Creative Enterprise Zones’ in £5m scheme

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15 Dec 2017

Ten London boroughs will each receive £50k to create permanent affordable creative workspaces and provide support for artists and creative businesses.

London car park reborn as cultural working space

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15 Dec 2017

Seven levels of Peckham’s multi-storey municipal car park have been converted into a mixture of new artist studios, co-working spaces and restaurants.

Coventry crowned UK City of Culture 2021

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08 Dec 2017

The city has beaten contenders Paisley, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland and Swansea to host the year-long award credited with ‘transforming’ Hull.

Nottingham unveils roadmap to ‘reimagine the city’ with culture

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24 Oct 2017

As Nottingham submits its bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2023, a city-wide plan to integrate culture into education and healthcare has been published.

Hull ensures UK City of Culture legacy with £250m investment

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29 Sep 2017

An additional £1m will help the organisation delivering Hull 2017 establish itself as an independent company and continue to provide cultural programmes after the year of festivities ends.

Government urged to invest £500m to boost regional creativity

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22 Sep 2017

In his sector review of the creative industries, former ACE Chair Sir Peter Bazalgette has underlined their importance to the UK’s future success.

Multi-million-pound cultural hub to ‘change way people see Luton’

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21 Sep 2017

Luton Culture, the charity behind the £5m project, hopes the redevelopment of three former hat factories will create 133 new jobs for the region.

An artist in residence for every ward in Glasgow

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15 Sep 2017

At a Culture Summit this week, Councillor David McDonald outlined how the city’s new government would deliver the SNP’s manifesto commitments around arts and culture. 

North gets £15m boost with new cultural regeneration fund

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04 Aug 2017

Towns and cities are encouraged to bid for capital grants to build a lasting regional legacy to the Government’s ‘Great Exhibition of the North’.

EXCLUSIVE: Artist squares up to Regulator over "manifestly unreasonable" fundraising investigation

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28 Jun 2017

The Fundraising Regulator has backed charity Bow Arts Trust’s claims that the £90 a month 'donations’ it took from a tenant on a live-in artist studio scheme were made voluntarily, despite concluding there was no supporting documentary evidence and accepting that the payments formed part of the monthly rent.

£1.5m for cultural placemaking in Wales

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26 May 2017

The pilot Great Place Scheme, which uses culture and heritage to deliver social and economic agendas, has been rolled out to Scotland and Wales.

Go-ahead for Woolwich creative district

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30 Mar 2017

The local authority has approved an investment of over £30m for a scheme that will place arts activity at the heart of regeneration plans.

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