The Arts Council of Northern Ireland (NI) has released the results of research into local authority arts and culture expenditure from 2006-2013, which includes heritage data, offering an insight into regional variations prior to reorganisation.
The data also includes arts development and support, museums and galleries, theatre and entertainment and IHBC members will be interested to view the heritage data (which relates to ‘repair and maintenance of councils historic buildings and ancient monuments (including recovery of expenses), initiatives or services designed to develop or maintain an awareness of local history, grants to voluntary groups and special events to celebrate historical events.’ –table 1 page 4).
Heritage shows a peak of expenditure in 2010/11 and 2011/12 (p6), and each local authority has data on ‘culture and related services’, with Derry spending the most per capita and Magherafelt the least across the survey timeline.
