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Spending review 2007

In 2007, the Government announced the outcome of its Comprehensive Spending Review. You can download a summary of the our response to the review here. It describes our achievements since 1996/97 and how they link to our objectives, and looks ahead to the opportunities of the next few years. A more detailed response, complete with case studies and data sources, is also available.

How you can get involved

We encourage everyone who is passionate about the arts, and especially arts organisations and artists who receive Arts Council support, to use the information here to make the case for maintaining arts funding at current levels. How you use the information is up to you, but here are some ideas:

  • contact your MP – by letter, email or invite them to visit you

  • use the key messages and key facts to brief your stakeholders (board members, funding partners etc)

  • use your website to remind your contacts, audiences and others of the benefits of funding the arts for success – as shown by your organisation – and ask them to contact their MP to say how valuable the arts are to them

  • write an article in your newsletter showing how increased investment has benefited your community

  • urge your local media to run a feature on the arts success story in your area – to show how 10 years of increased investment has made a difference to the quality, quantity and diversity of the arts on offer to your community

  • look at the Treasury's Spending Review website where you can make your views known on the benefits of funding the arts and what it means in your area to the Government: http://csr07.treasury.gov.uk/

Downloads

These word documents can be downloaded here:

For more information about the Government’s Spending Review and making the case for funding the arts for success, please contact our Communications team in your region:

National Office
Kelly Wiffen
Head of Public Affairs
Phone: 020 7973 5297
E:kelly.wiffen@artscouncil.org.uk

National Office
Louise Wylie
Director, Media Relations
Phone: 020 7973 5528
E:louise.wylie@artscouncil.org.uk

East
Aileen Muir
Head of Communications
Phone: 01223 454447
E:aileen.muir@artscouncil.org.uk

East Midlands
Fiona Mitchell-Innes
Head of Communications
Phone: 0115 989 7557
E:fiona.mitchell-innes@artscouncil.org.uk

London
Catriona Macrae-Gibson
Head of Communications
Phone: 020 7608 6147
E:catriona.macrae-gibson@artscouncil.org.uk

North East
Susan McKeon
Head of Communications
Phone: 0191 255 8568
Mobile: 07939 636429
E:susan.mckeon@artscouncil.org.uk

North West
Anthony Preston
Head of Communications
Phone: 0161 827 9254
E:anthony.preston@artscouncil.org.uk

South East
Liz Barling
Communications team
Phone: 01273 763043
E:liz.barling@artscouncil.org.uk

South West
Gillian Taylor
Communications team
Phone: 01392 229207
Mobile: 07989 430881
E:gillian.taylor@artscouncil.org.uk

West Midlands
Jo Forrest
Head of Communications
Phone: 0121 631 5757
Mobile: 07989 430881
E:jo.forrest@artscouncil.org.uk

Yorkshire
Tamsin Curror
Communications team
Phone: 01924 486238
Mobile: 07786 256431
E:tamsin.curror@artscouncil.org.uk