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Issue 227: A starter for 10:10

  • A starter for 10:10

    11 Oct 2010

     This afternoon’s highly-anticipated Spending Review announcement has reiterated that the government will maintain free entrance to museums and galleries, and confirmed that funding extensions for the Tate and British Museum will still go ahead – valued at almost £350m. Arts Council England (ACE), however, has been hit with a 29.6 % budget cut, amounting to a real-term reduction of £100m – from £450m to £350m by 2014. Local government also faces funding cuts of 7% a year, reducing cash by 28... more

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