PUBLIC SPENDING CUTS: The key facts on arts cuts
Nationally
• The Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review has proposed cuts of 15% across four years to front line arts organisations and a cut of nearly 30% for Arts Council England.
• The DCMS budget and staff to be cut by 50%
• Arts Council England has announced that all Regularly Funded Organisations will have their funding cut by 6.9% in 2011/12. 100 organisations will lose their ACE funding as a result of the newly adopted funding process.
Locally
• Regional theatres, arts organisations and community projects across the UK’s nations and regions are also very concerned that they will lose support from local councils, which are facing cuts of 7.1% each year for the next four years due to the CSR.
Some have already announced dramatic cuts to their arts budgets:
• Cumbria faces £130,000 cut in arts support
• Darlington Council to cut £1.7m
• Somerset has cut its entire £159,000 budget
• Manchester to review its £38m fund for culture
• The arts budget is usually a comparatively small amount of local government expenditure yet the benefits it brings to people’s lives are immense. Investment in cultural activities can drive regeneration, community cohesion, tourism revenues and employment.
• NALGAO (the body representing local government arts officers) estimates that for every £1 being spent on arts services; a return of £1.67 is realised in additional funding from other organisations and services.
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