Arts funding to be cut by as much as 20%

A report entitled After the Downturn, by the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, has announced that in the period 2011-2014 the arts may experience “cuts of 20% or more”. The report investigates how inevitable public spending cuts may be allocated in the three year period after the next general election, and points out that as an ‘unprotected service’, unlike health and education, the arts will be one of those to feel the deepest cuts in funding.

To read the full report, w: http://www.solace.org.uk/library_documents/After_the_Downturn.pdf