Funding
Northern Ireland allocates £29m ‘lifeline’ to culture
A new suite of funding schemes will provide support in the short and longer term
New grants available in ongoing coronavirus crisis
Find out what funding is currently on offer to support your organisation
English councils predict £700m gap in culture and leisure budgets
Local authorities expect to spend about £200m more on these services in 2020/21 while losing around £500m in income
Art Fund awards £600,000 to 18 museums and galleries
Recipients include Foundling Museum and National Videogame Museum
Contemporary Art Society unveils acquisition fund for museums
Rapid Response Fund designed to support sector during Covid-19 crisis
Manchester’s next cultural wave will centre on social impact
We're collecting the evidence to show that museums really do change lives
Manchester artists respond to coronavirus crisis
People's History Museum among museums to benefit from funding
Museum funders relax grant conditions in light of Covid-19 pandemic
Plans to adapt or create new funding programmes in response to crisis
What does the 2020 Budget mean for museums?
Government cuts business rates and confirms Cultural Investment Fund
The policy column | Empowering Collections: a progress report
A year on from the Museums Association’s (MA) Empowering Collections report, it’s pertinent to revisit our vision of making collections more relevant and dynamic. Is the sector making this vision a reality? And how can museums and others sustain the report’s ambition across all 11 recommendations? Sector bodies have responded. The Collections Trust aims to …