Every MP in the House of Commons has a constituent who has signed the Campaign for the Arts’ petition, urging the Chancellor to grow public investment in the arts and culture.
It comes just weeks before the Chancellor Rachel Reeves decides levels of spending on the Department for Culture, Media and Sport until at least 2029.
Lee’s trailblazing white paper of 1965 insisted that the arts should be central to everyday life and publicly supported for the benefit of all.
The Government has committed “over £270m” to an ‘Arts Everywhere Fund’, and green-lit £67m of investment in cultural infrastructure projects.
Scotland’s arts body has more than doubled the number of organisations it regularly funds, thanks to an increase in Scottish Government funding for which thousands of CFTA supporters campaigned.
The milestone is crossed as councils weigh further cuts in next year’s budgets. The Campaign for the Arts has launched an open call for information from the public.
The Welsh Government has slightly increased its investment in culture in next year’s draft Budget, but last year’s cuts have not been fully reversed.
The Scottish Government has significantly increased its investment in culture, improving prospects for artists and organisations at a critical moment.
The Chancellor announced a number of tax and spending measures that could affect the health of the arts in the UK.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves MP, has unveiled the 2024 Autumn Budget. It contains a number of tax and spending measures that could
Emergency petition launches as vital support for Scotland’s freelance artists is shut down, and core funding for nearly 300 organisations hangs in the balance.
New analysis by the Campaign for the Arts shows that arts subjects now account for a smaller proportion of GCSE and A-level entries than at any time since 2010.
Responding to our newly-published report with the University of Warwick, The State of the Arts, Lord Melvyn Bragg has called on the UK to change course as a matter
A new report from the Campaign for the Arts and The University of Warwick has unveiled a crisis in the UK’s arts and culture sector.
The Campaign for the Arts will invite supporters and the public to hear directly from the political parties on their policies for the arts and culture.