View presentation slides from our November 2012 Briefing events for funded organisations. The briefings aimed to update funded organisations on the changes the Arts Council is going through and discuss how they can help us make a strong case for maintaining public funding of arts and culture in advance of the next Government spending review.

1. 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

2. Agenda and timings for today
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

3. The funding environment
• 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

4. 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

5. Making the case for arts and culture
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

6. 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

7. Questions and discussion
Luton Carnival 2010
Photo: Clare Kendal

8. Arts Council updates
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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. National portfolio and Major partner museums
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

13. 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

14. Questions and discussion
Circa/ I Fagiolini, How Like An Angel, commissioned by Norfolk & Norwich Festival
Photo: Chris Taylor

15. Museums funding
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

16. 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

17. Questions and discussion
Launch of the Transform Arts Project at Snibston Discovery Museum
Photo: John Robertson

18. Strategic funding
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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. Questions and discussion
Questions and discussion
Layers of skin, a touring project from Retina Dance company.
Photo: Chris Nash

23. Future operating model and
organisation structure

24. 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

25. 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

26. Reviewing our priorities

27. 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
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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

28. 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 andLocal Government Group meeting (NAT)
digital platforms
• encouraging funded organisations to be even more
focused on attracting audiences

29. 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
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arts organisations to diversify their income streams,
including by encouraging private giving

30. 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
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• creating equal opportunities to enter the arts workforce

31. 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
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• raising the standard of art being produced for, with and
by children and young people

32. 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 acrossGovernment Group meetinglibraries
Local
arts, museums and (NAT)
• 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

33. Thank you