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ACE - Investing in Excellence
Dateline: 16th December, 1999
On 15th December the Arts Council of England announced its funding plans for
the years 2000-2002. The total budget for the two years, for all art forms,
will be £500m. The Council has identified a number of new priorities and has
focused its spending on them:
- Nurturing creativity across the generations - children, young people
and life-long learning;
- Bringing the arts to more people - touring and distribution including
through broadcasting, recording and electronic publishing;
- Encouraging individuality and expression - new work, experimentation
and risk, and the centrality of the individual artist, creator or maker;
- Embracing the diversity of our culture - diversity and
public inclusion with special reference to race, disability and economic class;
- Exploring new forms of expression - new art forms and collaborative
ways of working, often in or with new technology.
ACE identifies the following as the highlights of its Drama programme:
- new investment of £300,000 a year for young people’s theatre
with large increases to Oily Cart, Pop Up Theatre, Theatre Centre,
Quicksilver and Red Ladder
- substantial increases for the independent touring sector,
eg Out of Joint, Shared Experience, Actors Touring Company and Graeae
- two new fixed term companies - Clean Break and Yellow Earth
- guaranteeing one tour each year
- Royal National Theatre receives an extra £1.2 million
over two years in the light of the recent appraisal of its work by the Arts
Council.
- The Arts Council’s review into the roles and functions of the regional
producing theatres will be completed in spring 2000
Other Drama-related new developments are:
- 10 million over two years for the New Audiences programme,
including £4 million through the Regional Arts Boards
- £600,000 in 2001/2002 for cross-border touring
- £500,000 in 2001/2002 for epic touring - large-scale productions
which may be staged outside traditional venues, attracting new audiences
to the arts
- substantial consolidated increases over two years of £800,000 for
the Royal Court and £162,000 for the Donmar Warehouse to support new
work and new writing, in addition to the funds allocated by the
London Arts Board
- large increases for a number of organisations involving disabled
performers, including Graeae, Heart n’ Soul and CandoCo
- £400,000 over two years for arts projects addressing social exclusion
which will be subject to thorough evaluation in order to inform the
Arts Council’s future work in this area. Arts initiatives which address
social exclusion will also be funded through parts of a large number
of other Arts Council and RAB budgets
- £500,000 a year for training and professional development
in the arts
- The commitment to the continuation of the award-winning partnership
between the Arts Council and Barclays, Barclays Stage Partners,
which tours drama across England
- The National Promoter Development Fund (£1.49 million over
two years) will work alongside the new Lottery-funded National Touring
Programme, worth £10 million a year in 2000/2001 and 2001/2002, to
encourage dynamic relationships between artists/producers, venues/promoters,
and audience
- The Arts Council review of the roles and functions of regional building-based
producing theatres in England will report to Council in April. The
review will look at the regional theatres within the wider context
of drama production and provision across the country.
Lottery budgets for the next two years include:
- National Touring Programme - £10 million a year in 2000/2001
and 2001/2002
- Capital Programme 2 - average of at least £35 million a year
over the next five years
- Stabilisation (Main and Recovery programmes) - average of
£15 million a year from 1999/2000 to 2001/2002
The Regional Arts Boards
Delegation to the Regional Arts Boards is now well advanced. From 2000/2001 the Arts Council’s budgets reflect the change in the respective regional and national responsibilities. From 2000/2001 many areas of former Arts Council "projects and schemes" provision will be the responsibility of the Regional Arts Boards.
The Regional Arts Boards’ budgets for 2000/2001 have been increased to reflect these new responsibilities. The Arts Council’s grant-in-aid spending through the Regional Arts Boards will rise by approximately 18% (a further £18 million) in 2001/2002 to just over £100 million.
The funding plans for individual companies are here.
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