Arts Council Stakeholder Focus Research
The Arts Council's ongoing Stakeholder Focus research has been running since 2009. The findings from the 2009/10 research highlight areas where we are performing well: …
Published: 23 August 2010
Achieving great art for everyone consultation report
In 2009, Arts Council England embarked on a major consultation on its thinking towards a 10-year strategic framework published in the paper Achieving great art …
Published: 30 July 2010
Annual equality report 2009/10
Our Annual equality report 2009/10 summarises key achievements in the fields of race, disability and gender equality. Previously, we have reported individually on our public …
Published: 28 July 2010
Annual review 2010
Our annual review looks at a range of funded arts activity across the country, and presents a breakdown of Lottery and grant-in-aid funding for the …
Published: 26 July 2010
Thrive! poetry project: strategic development report
Planet Poetry was a Thrive! Project where four poetry organisations explored the potential of closer collaboration to build capacity in the poetry sector and to …
Published: 20 July 2010
Making adaptive resilience real
This publication focuses on developing understanding and debate about adaptive resilience, and increasing sectoral understanding of its importance through experimentation and sharing of best practice. …
Published: 9 July 2010
Arts, museums and new development: a standard charge approach
Arts Council England and the Museums Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) have published guidance for developers, councils and other organisations on how to plan for …
Published: 24 June 2010
Disability Equality Scheme 2010-13
Arts Council England has established a new framework for achieving disability equality in the arts, which builds on the knowledge and experience gained while delivering …
Published: 21 June 2010
Race Equality Scheme 2009-11
The Arts Council's Race Equality Scheme 2009-11 sets out our race equality objectives, vision for race equality in the arts and the actions required to …
Published: 21 June 2010
Review of the contribution of Arts Council funded organisations to music opportunities for children and young people
Arts Council England's support and advocacy for music education and participation dates back many years, covering a wide range of audience development initiatives, family and …
Published: 15 June 2010
Joining up the dots: Dance agencies – thoughts on future direction
Joining up the dots is a companion report to Dance Mapping. It focuses on the work of dance agencies, offering ideas for future working and …
Published: 26 May 2010
Regularly funded organisations: key data from the 2008/09 annual submission
Each year organisations that receive regular funding from Arts Council England complete an annual submission. The annual submission collects information on organisational profile, financial statements, …
Published: 23 April 2010
Regularly funded organisations: key data from the 2007/08 annual submission
Each year organisations that receive regular funding from Arts Council England complete an annual submission. The annual submission collects information on organisational profile, financial statements, …
Published: 23 April 2010
Guidelines for employers offering work placements in the creative industries
These guidelines have been developed to provide clarity over the different terms associated with work-based learning programmes, including volunteering, work experience placements, internships and apprenticeships, …
Published: 23 April 2010
Cultural Capital: A Manifesto for the Future
Some of Britain's leading cultural and heritage organisations have joined together for the first time to launch their vision for the future in the document, …
Published: 1 April 2010
Making a complaint
This leaflet explains the formal procedure for dealing with complaints, and the sorts of things people can make a formal complaint about. To make a …
Published: 1 April 2010
Creative Survival in Hard Times
New Deal of the Mind was commissioned by Arts Council England to investigate policy options for helping young people who wish to enter the creative …
Published: 30 March 2010
The relationship between Arts Council England and its regularly funded organisations
This document explains the framework for our relationships with regularly funded organisations in England. It describes the aims and principles of our relationships with regularly …
Published: 29 March 2010
Adult participatory arts - thinking it through
A report on key London-based arts organisations with participation and engagement at their hearts. The aim of this report is to allow for a better …
Published: 25 March 2010
Igniting Ambition Festival 2010
The Igniting Ambition Festival 2010 celebrates festival activity across the three counties and cities of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire in a diverse programme encompassing visual …
Published: 24 March 2010
Arts engagement in England 2008/09
In recent years, we have gained a lot of information about arts engagement patterns from Taking part, a large-scale survey of cultural participation among adults …
Published: 11 March 2010
Supporting UK musicians abroad
Arts Council England and the British Council have published the results of their joint research, Supporting UK musicians abroad. The publication explores the funding and …
Published: 4 March 2010
Gender equality scheme
Our gender equality scheme sets out our gender equality objectives, our vision for gender equality in the arts and the actions that we need to …
Published: 3 March 2010
Beyond their walls
Ten major London arts and cultural organisations share experience of working in the public realm.
Published: 14 December 2009
New Writing in Theatre 2003-8, an assessment of new writing within smaller scale theatre in England
This report focuses on the state of play of new writing within smaller Arts Council-funded companies in order to assess what impact the funding increase …
Published: 9 December 2009







