Thinking about the wider context of my project which had to be improved in my learning agreement I decided to follow the finanlcial crisis and its growing reflection on the Art Council of England. The first signs of the funding cuts leads it emergence 5 years ago when the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, infers the consequences of the financial crisis will reflect on arts sector as well as in any other.
“In the pre-budget report, the chancellor indicated that further
efficiencies would have to be secured in the third year of the spending review.
So, all parts of government have to hear that message and live in the real
world. Some people may not like it, but the arts has to live in the real world
too. Nobody is immune from what is happening.”, Andy Burnham, culture secretary 2009.
Firstly exspected to be around 14 millions pounds, in the next
year the cuts of the England’s Arts council are revealed to be a lot higher than explected
“Arts Council England has been hit with £19 million of in-year
cuts under Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne’s £6.2 billion savings
drive.”,
Alistair Smith, The Stage, 2010
There
have been constant indications that the funding cuts in the English arts sector
will be continuously growing in the next years and more venues funded by the England’s
Arts Council will face serious finacial difficulties.
“We do not yet know exactly what
this means for arts and cultural funding. The Chancellor’s statement today
signalled a £12 million cut to the DCMS budget in 2013/14 and a £22 million cut
in 2014/15. There is as yet no indication how much, if any, of this cut will be
passed on to the arts council and we await advice from the DCMS in this respect." Alan Davey, Arts Council England chief
executive, 2012.
Moreover,
some local governments have also included great arts funding cuts in their
plans due to their grants from the central government.
The
most drastic decision has been made by the Newcastle City Council which has
approved a plan to remove 100% of their art funding by the year of 2016.
One
of the venues affected by the funding crisis is also the local theatre
Nottingham Playhouse (their budget was recently been cut with 100% by the Arts
Council of England) which I contacted in order to understand a bit more about the
consequences led by the cuts. I sent them a short interview which I’ll post as
soon as I receive it.
sources:
http://www.thestage.co.uk/2010/05/arts-council-england-hit-by-19-million-of-in-year-cuts/
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