Our response to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement

4 Dec 2014 01:37 PM

You can read the Autumn Statement and find out more here. 

Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chair, Arts Council England said:

‘This additional investment in arts and culture in Manchester and beyond, including the Olympicopolis re-development, is recognition that arts and culture plays a critical role in regenerating our towns and cities. The Arts Council’s role is to nurture the cultural ecology across the whole country, and these measures will support us as we continue building on existing investment.

‘A tax relief for orchestras now joins other tax credits designed to encourage our thriving creative industries, and underlines the role that arts and culture plays in our economy.

‘These measures will help support arts and culture at a time when there are still funding pressures on our sector.’