Culture Forum created to meet the Government’s call for a national debate on the economy
Arts & Business in association with the NCA creates forum to ensure leading cultural minds are engaged in the big conversation on culture, the public and the private purse.
On Thursday 10 June 2010, Arts & Business in association with the National Campaign for the Arts (NCA) launches a new forum to represent the UK’s cultural sector in the debate on how best to reanimate private sector cultural funding in this period of economic difficulty.
The forum will be elected from a combined cultural membership of over 1,650 members who will vote for representatives to serve, initially for a year on a consultative task force, of up to 20 members. In the first instance the forum will focus on England.
Arts & Business and the NCA will open the call for candidates for the starting June 17 2010. The vote by arts members will be at the beginning of July and the first dialogue of the elected representatives will take place before the end of July 2010.
There will also be calls for nominations from among both arts memberships including Development Directors, fundraising professionals, CEOs and trustees to serve on this advisory forum.
In addition to this, Arts & Business will create a philanthropy taskforce to advise the Ministers and work with Trusts and Foundations who support culture.
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.
A Private Sector Policy for the Arts