ACE hit with £19m budget cut
Arts Council England's extra £5m cut on top of 3% cuts to all DCMS bodies • Lottery reforms to restore 20% share to arts.
• ACE gives details of £19m budget cut
Arts Council England has now detailed how it will make the £19m in-year budget cuts. The ACE has managed to give only a 0.5% cut across the board to regularly funded organisations (RFO) after using £9m historic reserves.
For more details, go to the ACE website: www.artscouncil.org.uk
In May, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced a cut of £19m to Arts Council England, as part of its £88million savings from its budget towards reducing the Government deficit. The move was part of £6.2 billion of cuts across Government in this financial year, announced by the Chancellor on 24 May.
The DCMS savings included a 3% cut to all bodies within the DCMS sector and an additional reduction in Arts Council England’s (ACE) budget of £5 million, taking their total budget reduction to £19m. There was also a cut of £27 million to the Olympics budget.
Read what the National Campaign for the Arts reports on the cuts:
www.artscampaign.org.uk
• New DCMS team announced, plus Lottery forms announced
Jeremy Hunt MP has been appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, as part of the UK's new Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government.
Jeremy Hunt gave his first keynote speech at the Roundhouse, in which he proposed reforms to the Lottery, including restoring a 20 per cent share each of National Lottery Good Cause funding back to the arts and heritage, with the Big Lottery Fund focusing exclusively on voluntary and community organisations. As expected, he also announced his department's longterm plans to develop philanthropy: read the full speech here.
Ed Vaizey MP has joined Hunt's team as the new Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries (joint Minister with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) and his responsibilities include arts, media, museums and galleries, creative industries and libraries.
Hugh Robertson MP is the new Minister for Sport and the Olympics.
John Penrose MP is the new Minister for Tourism.
• Other New Cabinet ministers
Eric Pickles MP has been appointed Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. He has been an MP for Brentwood and Ongar since 1992 and was formerly Shadow Minister for Transport.
Nick Hurd MP is the minister responsible for charities, social enterprises and voluntary organisations in the Cabinet Office. He will be known as the Minister for Civil Society within the new Office of Civil Society, which replaces the Office for the Third Sector.
He has announced that Government policy will focus on making it easier to run a charity, social enterprise or voluntary organisation.
For a full list of government ministers, go to: www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
• The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) is running a special section with advice on building understanding of the voluntary sector with the new coalition government, and working with a Hung Parliament. This includes a NCVO Sector Summit on 15 June, at which the new minister for the Third Sector will be invited. Keep updated on their site at: www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/election.
Date posted: 13th May 2010