The closure of the Scottish Book Trust’s Ignite Fellowship underlines the “clear decline” of funding for arts and culture in the nation, according to a union for writers, illustrators and literary ...

TONY GREEN will join Opera North’s Leeds city-centre venue, Howard Assembly Room, in the newly created role of general manager and lead programmer ahead of the company’s 2025 autumn events series.

A museum has failed to reach its 275,000 annual target for visitor numbers in its first year welcoming the public. Hopetown Darlington, which explores the history of the railway in northern England ...

Industrial action by staff at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield has been extended by four weeks amid claims from ...

DEBORAH REES is stepping down from Doncaster performance venue Cast after nine years in post, to become a freelancer. Previously director of the Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, and a quality assessor for ...

ABIGAIL POGSON is set to depart Gateshead's Glasshouse International Centre for Music, after a decade spent as chief executive. She leaves to take up a role leading the Barbican Centre, succeeding ...

In the first in our series of articles focusing on charitable giving, Louise Magill of the Oglesby Charitable Trust makes the case for place-based, sustained investment.

OVO founder Adam Nichols has encouraged the sector to consider more commercial ways of sourcing financial support, warning that there is "a very high degree of reliance on public funding". Nichols, ...

An organisation specialising in printing cards and IDs has been awarded a contract by Arts Council England (ACE) worth more than £400,000. Flintshire-based company the Card Network will help ACE ...

Kenwood House is to display two "twin" paintings whose painter remains the subject of fierce debate together for the first time. The Guitar Player, signed and conclusively agreed to be by 17th-century ...

CHRIS MCCREERY will take the helm at Belfast International Arts Festival as its new artistic director and chief executive, succeeding RICHARD WAKELY, who announced his departure last year after 12 ...

Prospective applicants to Arts Council England’s (ACE) popular project grant funding scheme are being invited to help test a ...