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Ladders for development: Impact of Arts Council England funding cuts on practice-led organisations
New evidence exposing, quantifying and discussing the likely impact on the visual arts of Arts Council England’s decisions on fifteen previously Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) visual arts organisations unsuccessful in their NPO application. It shows that a disproportionate number of artists’ membership and development agencies and practice-based organisations lost core funding, despite ACE’s aim of creating a balanced national portfolio and makes recommendations for sustaining their work as part of a strengthened arts ecology.
A national organisation dedicated to providing quality resources that support artists and artists' production, a-n The Artists' Information Company works through an extensive network across the UK. This provides a unique overview of the visual arts infrastructure and enables a-n to comment and make intelligent observations on issues that affect artists and the visual arts sector in all its diversity. Commissioned by a-n from visual arts specialist and writer Dany Louise, and in direct response to the Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) announcement on 30 March 2011, this research paper exposes, quantifies and discusses the likely impact on the visual arts ecology of the NPO decisions on fifteen visual arts organisations1 that were previously Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) but were unsuccessful in their NPO application. It shows that a disproportionate number of artists' membership and development agencies and practice-based organisations have lost core funding as a result of the NPO decisions. This comment from one organisation studied for this report is typical: "The smaller organisations are the lifeblood of the arts, and these cuts feel...
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