Explainers
What did the 2025 Spending Review mean for the arts?
The Chancellor has made choices in this Spending Review that will affect the health of the arts for the next three years and beyond.
12/06/2025
News and views
Press Releases
Citizens from every UK constituency urge Chancellor to grow arts funding in Spending Review
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.
04/06/2025
Press Releases
CFTA launches urgent petition after new analysis reveals further 6% cut to culture department this year
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.
06/05/2025
Articles
Jennie Lee’s vision for the arts, 60 years on
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.
25/02/2025
Explainers
UK Government commits new funding for arts and culture
The Government has committed “over £270m” to an ‘Arts Everywhere Fund’, and green-lit £67m of investment in cultural infrastructure projects.
21/02/2025
Explainers
Creative Scotland’s Multi-Year Funding: what just happened?
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.
30/01/2025
Updates
English councils have more than halved culture spending since 2010, new CFTA analysis finds
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.
17/12/2024
Updates
CFTA responds to draft Welsh Budget 2025-6
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.
10/12/2024
Updates
CFTA responds to draft Scottish Budget 2025-6
The Scottish Government has significantly increased its investment in culture, improving prospects for artists and organisations at a critical moment.
04/12/2024
Explainers
What did the 2024 Autumn Budget mean for the arts?
The Chancellor announced a number of tax and spending measures that could affect the health of the arts in the UK.
31/10/2024
Press Releases
CFTA responds to Autumn Budget 2024
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
30/10/2024
Press Releases
CFTA urges immediate action from the Scottish Government to prevent “cultural catastrophe”
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.
21/08/2024
Explainers
Exam results show further collapse in arts enrolment, deepening a 15-year decline
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.
15/08/2024
Updates
Melvyn Bragg responds to THE STATE OF THE ARTS report
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
24/07/2024
Press Releases
CFTA and the University of Warwick publish THE STATE OF THE ARTS report
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.
22/07/2024