As Arts Council England publicly dumps the ‘additionality’ rules of Lottery funding, Simon Tait warns that while the move might mean arts organisations can keep the doors open, they’ll have to forget about getting new doors.
For the first time ever, lottery money is to be used to replace grant-in-aid arts funding. Those ‘additionality’ rules so jealously preserved by John Major’s Conservative government after they brought in the National Lottery 20 years ago – rules that set aside Lottery bunce for special projects, capital building that could otherwise not have happened and training programmes which are beyond the norm in the public sector – and for which the opposition railed against the Labour government when it played fast and loose with them, have been dumped. Unceremoniously.
ACE’s Alan Davey says it is a pragmatic decision. With the 36% cut he has had since 2010, less than half the number of organisations he is funding in the 2011 settlement could be in the 2015-18 portfolio, so the snipping of the red tape is justified... Keep reading on The Stage
For the first time ever, lottery money is to be used to replace grant-in-aid arts funding. Those ‘additionality’ rules so jealously preserved by John Major’s Conservative government after they brought in the National Lottery 20 years ago – rules that set aside Lottery bunce for special projects, capital building that could otherwise not have happened and training programmes which are beyond the norm in the public sector – and for which the opposition railed against the Labour government when it played fast and loose with them, have been dumped. Unceremoniously.
ACE’s Alan Davey says it is a pragmatic decision. With the 36% cut he has had since 2010, less than half the number of organisations he is funding in the 2011 settlement could be in the 2015-18 portfolio, so the snipping of the red tape is justified... Keep reading on The Stage