Forum for Arts, Culture & Heritage
Give your feedback on the discussion and recommendations from the first two meetings
The 26 representatives of the Forum for Arts, Culture & Heritage met for the first time on Tuesday 27 July in a meeting focused on the crisis around public funding for culture in England.
Give us your feedback...
As an open and democratic process, we invite you to download the minutes from the first two forum meetings and give your feedback on the forum blog.
• Download the second meeting notes
• Download the first meeting notes
• Give your feedback on the Forum for Arts, Culture & Heritage Blog
Hear from Tim Joss, Director of the Rayne Foundation, the chair of the first meeting, on the focus of the session below.
The next meeting on Tuesday 24 August will focus on earned income and the final meeting of this series will look at the private sector on Tuesday 21 September.
Arts & Business and the National Campaign for the Arts (NCA) are acting as the secretariat to the Forum.
Who's involved
Click here to read about the 26 representatives from England
About the forum
The Forum for Arts, Culture & Heritage is set up to ensure leading cultural minds have a direct line to Government following the Chancellor’s call for a ‘Big Conversation’. It will discuss views, ideas and actions on how to reenergise investment and funding for culture in England. Representatives will serve for a year on this special consultative task force.
Input and Outcomes
We would like the process to be as open as possible and we’re keen for your input. Following each meeting, we will post the a synopsis of the discussions, action points and recommendations shorttly after and invite comments and input on our blog. Following the conclusion of the first three meetings, Arts & Business and the NCA will collate all information, action points, recommendations, relevant case studies and examples into a report. This report will be delivered to the Prime Minister, Chancellor, Secretary of State for Culture, Minister for Culture and senior officials in time for the Treasury’s Spending Review announcement on 20 October. The aim is to produce a powerful set of policy ideas, recommendations and on-the-ground information to Government on current issues facing the sector.
What will the Forum for Arts, Culture & Heritage do and what is the role of a Forum Representative?
The Forum for Arts, Culture & Heritage will discuss the following issues and will inform the Government in the final report on:
• Feedback on the impact and effects of proposed cuts to the arts sector, sharing insight into the strongest counter cuts arguments and most effective cost saving strategies
• Generating new ideas on innovative income streams, funding models and efficiencies
• Growing the contribution from the private sector to invest in the cultural sector
Forum for Arts, Culture & Heritage representatives will:
• Formulate proposals to feed into the Government’s ‘spending challenge’
• Help inform Arts & Business’ Private Sector Policy for the Arts to increase cultural philanthropy and private sector investment. Act as a key agent for an arts dialogue on the Government’s Big Society agenda
About the NCA
The National Campaign for the Arts (NCA) is the UK’s only independent lobbying organisation representing all the arts. It provides a voice for the arts world in all its diversity. It seeks to safeguard, promote and develop the arts and win public and political recognition for the importance of the arts as a key element in our national culture.
The NCA will also be consulting its membership nationwide and encouraging them to take part in the Chancellor’s big conversation. It will provide information on how arts organisations and artists can engage with the conversation on a local, regional and national basis and produce tools and materials for use.
In 2009 the NCA published its Manifesto for the Arts, its vision for the sector and the contribution it can make to the UK’s economic and social wellbeing.
Click here to read the manifesto.