Explainers
What did the 2025 Autumn Budget mean for the arts?
The Chancellor avoided big new cuts, but did not unlock significant new potential for the UK’s arts and culture sector.
28/11/2025
News and views
Press Releases
CFTA responds to Autumn Budget 2025
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves MP, has unveiled the 2025 Autumn Budget. In an initial reaction from the Campaign for the Arts, Director Jack
26/11/2025
Explainers
Curriculum change in England – what’s happening?
EBacc scrapped, Progress 8 to be reformed, a new core enrichment entitlement… What does it all mean?
05/11/2025
Explainers
GCSE and A-level arts entries fall again, to lowest levels since 2010
New analysis by the Campaign for the Arts reveals that arts subjects now account for a smaller proportion of GCSE and A-level entries than at any time since 2010.
21/08/2025
Articles
The State of the Arts: one year on
Five charts that tell us something about the health of the arts in the UK in 2025.
31/07/2025
Press Releases
CFTA contributes to landmark report on how streaming is changing public service media
Arts programmes are among those at risk of being less available, prominent and discoverable on the streaming platforms of the UK’s public service broadcasters.
22/07/2025
Press Releases
One year of Labour: “hit and miss for the arts”
CFTA Director Jack Gamble reflects on the first year of this Labour Government, finding cause both for concern and for hope.
08/07/2025
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
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