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.
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.
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.
An open letter from Give an X and the Campaign for the Arts calls on everyone in the UK to use their vote, following a sharp decline in turnout of younger voters.
We are dismayed that Birmingham, the UK’s second city, will lose almost all its council funding for the arts over the next 2 years. Defunding
We share concern about changes to Arts Council England’s policies for regularly-funded organisations – new cautions about activity that is As the Arts Council acknowledges,
The Scottish Government has revealed its draft Budget for 2024-5 in a statement by the Deputy First Minister Shona Robison. It returns the £6.6m cut
The Welsh Government has revised its spending plans for next year, reducing investment in culture by 11%. It means the Arts Council of Wales, the
Humza Yousaf’s pledge follows two major interventions by the Campaign for the Arts against cuts to Creative Scotland this year.
The Campaign for the Arts has welcomed the Culture Secretary’s commitment, but warned that cuts this year will be ‘hugely detrimental’.
Mounting financial pressures are exactly why the arts need support, not broken promises.
“Everybody signing our new petition is clear: the Scottish Government should keep their promise and deliver the £6.6m they pledged to Creative Scotland this year.”