Arts Council England has published its funding plans for 2018-22. These include an increase in the funds available for Grants for the Arts and details for applications to be included in its National Portfolio of Organisations.
A new category of Sector Support Organisations is to be created along with a banding structure for funded organisations to reduce the bureaucratic requirements on smaller organisations.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced a “tailored review” of Arts Council England and is asking for feedback on the organisation’s functions, efficiency and effectiveness.
A new report investigating the nature of arts funding has called for a shift in funding, language and focus from “Great Art for Everyone” to “Great Arts by, for and with Everyone”. The report, commissioned by the Arts Council calls on the funder to focus on wellbeing and to address funding inequality from large cultural institutions to smaller, grassroots community practice.
Arts Council England has launched the second round of its Research Fund designed to deepen knowledge and understanding of the impact of art and culture, and the role it plays in our experience as individuals and a society.
A new report has revealed a £236m or 17% decline in local authority cultural spending since 2010. London boroughs saw the largest cuts in arts and culture spending; 19 per cent between 2010 and 2015.
ACE is asking its stakeholders to respond to proposals for arts and culture from 2018.
ACE are keen to hear from people across and beyond the arts and culture sector. Please visit their conversation website, where you can read and respond to the proposals.
Arts Council England has published a series of essays on the health benefits of the arts by authors including Andrew Marr and Jan Burkhardt.
The essays are part of the Arts Council’s ongoing Create series which was launched with a powerful polemic about the role of arts in health by Professor John Ashton.
We are happy to share that, alongside our partners the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance (CHWA), we have re-imagined Creativity & Wellbeing Week 2020.
