Arts Council England is seeking views – including through online contributions – on how they may invest in arts and culture (2018+), leading on from their ‘Great Art and Culture for Everyone’ 10 year strategy, and now proposing an integrated approach to funding arts, museums and libraries and the trial of a ‘place-based approach to building cultural capacity’.
Arts Council England writes:
This week, we are sharing with the arts and culture sector our thinking about how we might shape our investment activity from 2018. We have published a set of proposals on our website and would like to engage as many people as possible in a conversation with us to help shape them further.
The proposals look at our three main investment strands: strategic funds, Grants for the Arts and the National Portfolio (including Major Partner Museums).
They include thoughts on: individual artists, changes to the National Portfolio and the focus for strategic funds. Please share your views on our proposals online. Managed by research agency ComRes on our behalf, we want to hear from anyone that has an interest in how we invest in the future.
Darren Henley, our Chief Executive said: ‘The future we want to see for art and culture is set out in Great Art and Culture for Everyone, our 10-year strategy. Since we launched it we’ve seen many successes, with exciting work and new audiences. We are also facing considerable challenges around funding, reach and relevance. The proposals here address how we invest in the talent and ideas needed to address these challenges. We must ensure public investment creates more opportunities for everyone to enjoy a rich cultural life. We look forward to working with the sector on these proposals.’
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