# Arts Council England to give £44.5 million to sustain arts through recession

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/05/07/arts-council-england-give-445m-sustain-arts-through-recession/
- Published: 2009-05-07T06:01:50+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Arts Council England is to invest an extra £44.5 million in artists and arts organisations
over the next two years to help them through the recession.

 

The [funding](http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding) is split into three strands.‘
Sustain’ is a new £40 million open application fund for arts organisations suffering
as a result of the recession: applications should be turned round within six weeks.
The Arts Council will make £500,000 available for the Town Centres Initiative to
enable more artistic activities to take place in empty retail spaces. There will
also be a £4 million increase in the Grants for the arts budget over the next two
years.

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The new funding has been made available by the Arts Council “radically reducing”
its Lottery cash balances over the next two years.

 

www.artscouncil.org.uk/actiononrecession

 

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