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Dateline: 14th December, 2010
Birmingham Cuts Arts by £2m A number of Birmingham arts groups are to have their funding cut by 50% over the next three years as the city council takes an axe to its arts budget. The biggest losers as the authority reduces its arts funding to nearly £10.2m from £12m a year are influential theatre company Stan's Cafe, theatre-in-education company Big Brum and Women & Theatre who will all lose half of their funding. Other organisations will lose between 9% and 23%. Birmingham REP's grant goes down from £1.103m to £908,000; The Drum, the national centre for black British arts and culture, has its grant reduced from £480,000 to £435,000; and mac, the recently reopened Midlands Arts Centre, has just over £100,000 chopped from its £756,000 grant. Cabinet member for leisure, sport and culture Cllr Martin Mullaney said, "None of us are exactly jumping for joy at the news but times are hard and everyone knows the current national economic situation. "It would be naïve to think the budget cuts are not going to impact on the cultural sector here in Birmingham. What we've tried to do though is keep the impact down to a minimum for our arts organisations. "It's a 17% [average] drop, not the 30% suggested in a speculative report ten days ago." Steve Orme
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