Arts Council briefing events

November 2012

Little Girl Giant, Xolo and Uncle Giant leaving Liverpool, as part of

Sea Odyssey by Royal de Luxe.

Photo: Liverpool City Council/Ant Clausen

10:00 Welcome and introduction

10:10 The funding environment and making the case

10:40 Arts Council updates

10:50 National portfolio and Major partner museums

11:00 Q&A

11:15 Museums funding

11:30 Strategic funding

12:00 The Arts Council’s organisation review

12:30 Close

Agenda and timings for today

• Chancellor’s Autumn statement 5 December

• the Arts Council is

o preparing the case for investment in arts and culture

o refreshing the priorities that sit under the five goals of Achieving

great art for everyone

o designing next investment strategy

o determining the processes to underpin it

• an External reference group will work with us

The funding environment

Arts Council priorities and investment processes

• we will have to do things differently, through more

streamlined investment, grant making and application

processes and a more focused set of priorities

• we will meet our accountability requirements and

funding applications that meet our goals and priorities

• over the next year we will work with the arts and

cultural sector to develop the necessary changes to

our priorities and investment processes

The cultural sector is a credit to Britain

Through creating great art, building our communities and

contributing to economic growth:

o Innovation and regeneration across the country

o Building a talent ladder

o Promoting the UK on a global stage

• We have created a powerful platform for cultural, social

and economic growth

• The Olympics exemplified the strength of this platform

• We have a modest ask to government to allow growth to

continue

Making the case for arts and culture

• The Arts Council will support your communications and

engagement work

• use messages in our on-going advocacy work

• use examples and stories of the work that you do

What you can do

• write your own confident story about how you contribute

• use this story with all your audiences

• read Measuring the economic benefits of arts

and culture and add your economic impact study to the

Arts Council blog here http://blog.artscouncil.org.uk/

• share the messages with your staff and board

• acknowledge your public funding and tell your story

Making the case for arts and culture

Luton Carnival 2010

Photo: Clare Kendal

Questions and discussion

Children and young people

• Improving the delivery of arts and cultural

opportunities for children and young people: Bridge

organisations, Music education hubs, In Harmony,

National Youth Dance Company, Artsmark and Arts

Award

• Raising the standard of art produced for, with and by

Children and young people: Quality principles,

Qualified music educator, Cultural practitioners

qualification

Arts Council updates

The Space

• extended by 6 months. A place for artists and arts

organisations to produce innovative new work in new

formats for digital platforms

Creative employment programme

• The Skills Academy is the national delivery partner to

provide up to 6,500 new apprenticeships, pre-

apprenticeships and paid internships in the arts and

cultural sector for unemployed people aged 16-24

• paid opportunities to gain access to on the job training,

skills and experience in the arts and cultural sector

Arts Council updates

State of the arts

• a series of thought leadership activities providing

platforms, content and activities to generate debate or

consider ideas and concepts – artistic or policy based –

that will shape the future of the sector

• more information in 2013

Arts Council updates

Libraries

Envisioning the library of the future

• the research will be published in early January 2013

• long term vision and framework to support library

development

Community managed and community supported libraries

• report due January 2013 includes map of current activity;

typography of approaches; ten case studies

• the report outlines a proposed new approach to

libraries working with communities

Arts Council updates

Annual reporting and feedback

• updating us on your progress with the funding

agreement

• informing us of changes or developments through your

business plan

• enabling us to demonstrate how public investment has

contributed to the Goals

• we are taking measures not to duplicate data already

collected in the annual survey

National portfolio and Major partner museums

National portfolio organisations and Major partner

museums

Equality plans

• from now until March 2013, keep your existing plans in

place and monitor progress – at least twice a year

• use this period to prepare your new equality plan to start

April 2013 onwards

• we will be providing as much help as we can, including

regional workshops

Environmental sustainability requirements

• energy and water usage into IG Tools by May each year

• Environmental policy and action plan by May 2013

• Julie’s Bicycle are providing support and expertise

Questions and discussion

Circa/ I Fagiolini, How Like An Angel, commissioned by Norfolk & Norwich Festival

Photo: Chris Taylor

Renaissance

• to support regional English museums. All four strands of

activity have been launched: 16 Major partner museums,

Strategic funds, Museums development network and

national programmes

Museums and Lottery

• benefits in aligning museum development in the Arts

Council with Heritage Lottery Funding and national

museums

• we plan to work together closely in delivering future

strategic support

Museums funding

World War 1 Centenary

• a strong coherent arts and cultural response in

partnership with the Imperial War Museum

• an opportunity to show-case artistic talent and build on

experience of 2012

2012 Legacy

• WW1 commemorations provide opportunity to build on

the great success of our 2012 activity

• the Stories of the world programme that engaged young

people

Museums funding

Questions and discussion

Launch of the Transform Arts Project at Snibston Discovery Museum

Photo: John Robertson

Catalyst Arts: building fundraising capacity

• for arts organisations to develop a fundraising model to

increase capacity and expertise and improve resilience

• the £7 million scheme is only open to applications from

consortia of organisations

• applications of between £60,000 and £150,000

• it’s about capacity building - there is no match funding

element

• developing capacity around private giving must be the

main focus

• applicants need to demonstrate a long-term commitment

to embedding change in fundraising and business

models

Strategic funding

Strategic funding

Strategic touring programme

• open to all arts and cultural organisation, including

NPOs, for the touring of arts activity

• £8.25 million offered to 33 successful applications across

the first four rounds, all six artforms and all nine regions

• two further rounds in 2012-13, dates for six further

rounds are on our website

Creative people and places

• a £37 million strategic fund prioritising people and

places with the least engagement

• over £16 million to seven successful consortia

applications across the first round

• round two is open, decisions announced in April 2013

Strategic funding

Audience focus

• supporting organisations to be even more focused on

attracting audiences

• £7.5 million strategic fund launched in November 2011,

three major awards were made in the first round

• the second round will open in April or July next year

Digital R&D fund for the arts

• the £7 million Digital R&D fund for arts is open now

• projects that expand audience research and/or develop

new business models

Grants for the arts for libraries

• £6 million between September 2012 and March 2016

• to demonstrate our role as a development agency for the

library sector and support libraries integration into the Arts

Council

• to stimulate ambitious partnerships between public

libraries, artists and arts organisations and their

communities - think bigger and raise their ambitions

Questions and discussion

Layers of skin, a touring project from Retina Dance company.

Photo: Chris Nash

Questions and discussion

Future operating model and

organisation structure

Principal changes

• 21 per cent reduction in staff numbers across the organisation from

559.5 full time posts to 442 (117.5)

• four Executive Directors, reducing from eight, accountable for

delivering our strategy with the Chief Executive

• five areas covering London, the South East, the South West, the

Midlands and the North

• 50 per cent cut in property costs through reducing the size but not

the number of offices

• leadership of art form and cultural policy expertise distributed

geographically across the organisation

Working together

More collaborative working, both internally and

externally, will be at the heart of what we do

•our priorities

•our investment processes

•new ways of working

Reviewing our priorities

Local Government Group meeting (NAT)

Current priorities: a reminder

Goal 1: talent and artistic excellence are thriving and

celebrated

• using our investment to ensure excellent art happens

• establishing a coherent, nationwide approach to the

development of artistic talent, particularly for emerging

and mid-career artists

• supporting an artistically-led approach to diversity in the

arts

• responding to major opportunities such as the London

2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to showcase

talent and build audiences for excellent art

Local Government Group meeting (NAT)

Current priorities: a reminder

Goal 2: more people experience and are inspired by

the arts

• developing arts opportunities for people and places

with the least engagement

• strengthening the distribution of excellent art through

touring and digital platforms

• encouraging funded organisations to be even more

focused on attracting audiences

Local Government Group meeting (NAT)

Current priorities: a reminder

Goal 3: the arts are sustainable, resilient and

innovative

• promoting greater collaboration between organisations

to increase efficiency and innovation

• strengthening business models in the arts and helping

arts organisations to diversify their income streams,

including by encouraging private giving

Local Government Group meeting (NAT)

Current priorities: a reminder

Goal 4: the arts leadership and workforce are diverse

and highly skilled

• building a network of arts leaders who value sharing

their knowledge and skills for the benefit of the arts and

civil society

• creating equal opportunities to enter the arts workforce

Local Government Group meeting (NAT)

Current priorities: a reminder

Goal 5: every child and young person has the

opportunity to experience the richness of the arts the

richness of the arts

• improving the delivery of arts opportunities for children

and young people

• raising the standard of art being produced for, with and

by children and young people

Local Government Group meeting (NAT)

What are we trying to achieve?

A small set of clear measurable priorities

• No more than five to six priorities?

• Not a ‘bundling together’ of multiple priorities

• Relevant across arts, museums and libraries

• The new priorities will form the basis of our strategic

funding and are aimed at gaps not addressed through

our other funding programmes which remain focussed

on our five goals.

Send feedback to priorities@artscouncil.org.uk

Thank you