Funding

National Gallery restructure shows sector’s ‘dire financial position’

Institution is cutting staff and reducing programming as it struggles to avoid £8.2m deficit

DCMS announces £1.5bn to tackle underfunding across culture sector

Five-year investment also aims to ‘unite communities’

Culture ‘key to sustainable economic growth and healthy communities’

Paper calls on government to formally measure role of culture in UK economy

Art Fund awards £1.3m to museums and galleries for collections work

Twenty-nine institutions receive grants in final round of Reimagine fund

Budget 2025: ‘Far more ambitious action’ needed for culture sector

How museum and culture sector leaders have responded to this year’s budget

Science centres ‘undermined’ by a lack of government support

Association writes open letter calling for better recognition and funding

Funding gives museum leaders in Scotland more time for future planning

Museums Galleries Scotland awards £600,000 via new Leadership Capacity Fund

Museums encouraged to apply to the ACE/V&A Purchase Grant Fund

Funding supports permanent acquisitions by non-national institutions in England and Wales

Courtauld secures £30m donation

Money from the Reuben Foundation will help London arts institute develop a new campus

Belfast Historic Waterfront and Dudley join Heritage Places scheme

Six new areas will benefit from £200m investment initiative

Paul Hamlyn Foundation fund closes to new applicants due to ‘volume of demand’

Arts Fund grants will only be awarded to existing grantees and reconsidered applications until April 2027

Royal Academy of Arts expands collection galleries

Anonymous donor backs gallery’s free-to-visit spaces