Alan Davey answers your Arts Council funding questions
Following funding and cuts announcements, Arts Council England chief executive Alan Davey took part in a live Q&A to answer some of your questions.
The big picture is this: the arts council had its budget cut by 29.6% with a condition that it could not pass on frontline spending cuts of more than 15%. It chose to take that figure as an overall figure and shake up the national portfolio. That's why 206 organisations had their funding cut altogether and 110 new organisations were brought into the mix.
All the big beasts – the Royal Opera, the National Theatre and so on – remain intact with cuts of around 11-15%.
Many have seen their cash go up such as the Arcola theatre in Dalston, London (an 82% real terms increase) while others have gone down – the Almeida in Islington, London, is losing 39% of its money.
Then there are the groups applying for first time funding who did not make it – the Rose in Kingston for example – and they're not, to say the least, happy.
There is no right of appeal for any of the arts organisations but there is the right to ask Davey, who took over in 2008, some questions.
Click on this link to see the questions asked and Alan Davey's responses. Q&A
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