Arts Funding in Wales cut by 30% since 2017

Research carried out Equity shows Wales has cut double compared to England and Scotland.

I received this press release yesterday. I print it here in full so as not to accidentally focus on one thing rather than another, and be accused of bias. It comes with a header that says this forms the “Equity General Election Campaign Launch”, but as I don’t quite know what that means, as Equity is not a political party putting up any electoral candidates in this election, I assume it means it is fulfilling its role as lobbying group, offering recommendations/demands of the standing parties to take them on board. So I am not publishing those “demands”, just the research, and allowing you, dear BRG reader, to way up what it is any of this means.

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• Olivia Colman calls findings “shocking” while Imelda Staunton wants “to see all parties promising much more on the arts”

• Since 2017 arts funding from national bodies (Arts Councils in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, alongside Creative Scotland) has been cut by 16% in real terms across the UK

• Funding in Wales has dropped 30%, in England 11%, and in Northern Ireland 16%, with data also available for each constituency