Cuts Watch #81: more arts cuts
Today the Arts Council revealed how it will cope with the £19 million cut in its funding announced last month by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.Taken together with a £4 million cut imposed in the 2009 Budget, the Arts Council has £23 million less from central government this year than it originally expected.
By drawing on £9 million of their ‘historic reserves’ they have been able to limit the cuts for ‘regularly funded organisations’ to 0.5 per cent; there are 800 organisations in this category who, on average will lose £2,000 each. Some of the best-known organisations in the arts will lose substantially more; one estimate of how much they could lose is:
- Royal Opera House – £142,185
- Southbank Centre – £104,022
- Royal National Theatre – £98,699
- English National Opera – £92,180
- Royal Shakespeare Company – £80,052
- Opera North – £49,577
- Birmingham Royal Ballet – £41,014
- English National Ballet – £34,479
- Welsh National Opera – £33,976
- Arts & Business – £160,000
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