Arts Council publishes funding plans
Arts Council England (ACE) has set out details of how it will invest 拢440 million of strategic funding between 2012 and 2015.
The money will be used to target areas such as investment in capital, touring and the Catalyst scheme to encourage private giving, which was .
Much of the new strategic funding will come from the Lottery following the Government鈥檚 decision to increase the share of Lottery money going to the arts. It will sit alongside the 拢1.04 billion that already goes to organisations funded through the National portfolio programme.
鈥淭he funding will allow the to invest in flexible and targeted ways to help realise our priorities and ambitions for the arts, building on our core investment in the National portfolio,鈥� ACE Chief Executive Alan Davey said. He added: 鈥淚鈥檓 sure creative and ambitious organisations across the country will relish the chance to undertake work that ensures the arts keep pushing boundaries and play an even greater role in our national life.鈥�
The , also published today, explains in more detail how strategic funding will be used to achieve the aims of its ten-year framework, 鈥淎chieving great art for everyone鈥�.
Applications have opened today for two more phases of , the 拢100 million private giving investment programme funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Arts Council England and the .