Arts Council news

A £186m cultural centre, set to transform the arts and music scene globally, will open its doors in June this year. Factory International, based in ... More

The Rugby League World Cup's social impact programme has resulted in £25.8m of investment in local communities across northern England. According to an independent report, ... More

Coventry, the UK City of Culture in 2021, wants to seize a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create an arts hub to establish the city as an ... More

Some of the UK’s largest arts and heritage organisations have been given a lifeline in the form of £165m worth of emergency loans. The loans ... More

Up to 100k people will benefit from the free gym and physical activity sessions, thanks to a partnership between ukactive, NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I), ... More

Baroness Martha Lane-Fox, Sir Nicholas Serota and former BBC and ITV chief Lord Grade are among a new post-COVID-19 taskforce, aimed at getting the country’s ... More

The UK government has launched a "major effort" to tackle loneliness and social isolation during the coronavirus outbreak. Led by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, the ... More

Helen Bonser-Wilton, CEO of Portsmouth's Mary Rose Museum, says the attraction, along with the rest of Britain's independent museums are in "mortal peril" unless the ... More

Arts Council England (ACE) has responded to the "massive and unsustainable loss of revenues" caused by COVID-19 by announcing an emergency £160m (US$191.2m, €176.4m) emergency ... More

With coronavirus forcing the closure of Britain's arts institutions, the BBC has offered a way for isolated citizens to get their cultural fix – a ... More

The UK Government has earmarked almost £1.3m (US$1.7m, €1.5m) towards a scheme that aims to involve young people in heritage, through a new grant to ... More

Sports, arts and heritage-based youth projects across the UK are set to receive a share of a £7m investment from the central government. The Youth ... More

The £18.1m (US$23.4m, €21.2m) renovation and reimagining of the Geffrye Museum of the Home in London, UK will come to fruition in Q3 2020, with ... More

The government has set out plans for every patient in the country to have access to sport and leisure activities through social prescribing on the ... More

Funding support for York's National Railway Museum, Coventry's 2021 UK City of Culture programme and infrastructure and maintenance work at local and regional museums across ... More

Arts Council England has named 13 new additions to its Creative People and Places (CPP) project, which it says is about local people choosing, creating ... More

A new report conducted by the UK’s Centre for Economic and Business Research has found that the country’s arts and culture industry contributes £10.8bn to ... More

Arts Council England (ACE) is gearing up to launch its new platform for arts and culture professionals to explore and use different technologies to achieve ... More

Only 5 per cent of staff members are not white at Arts Council England (ACE) major partner museums (MPMs) while 16 per cent of the ... More

Latest figures from the County Council Network (CCN), which represents all county councils in England, show that councils in England have seen their arts budgets ... More

Arts Council England (ACE) has published a new guide to help arts and cultural organisations to prepare for a "no deal" Brexit. The guide contains ... More

Leadership development providers at cultural institutions in England can apply for grants between £150,000 (US$192,125, €167,360) and £1m (US$1.3m, €1.1m) from Arts Council England (ACE) ... More

An exhibition featuring historical photos and memorabilia of heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath is to go on display in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, England. ... More

Trading of items containing elephant ivory between "accredited" museums is one of the few exemptions contained within the UK’s new Ivory Act, which gained royal ... More

The Arts Council of Wales (ACW) has launched a consultation paper on the way it uses lottery funding to make the process more accessible and ... More