Campaign for the Arts
We believe the arts make life better, and everyone should have opportunities to experience and take part in them. 🎶💃🎭🎨✍️📸🎥🧵🏛️
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- This week, two things happened for the arts in Wales 🏴 1️⃣ New evidence shows arts engagement delivers huge health and economic benefits 2️⃣ The Welsh budget signals growing recognition of that value 🧵👇
- Yesterday, the Welsh Government published their final 2026-27 Budget, and increased culture investment for the second year on the trot 🐎
- 💊 "If the arts were a pill, we would be taking it every single day" 💊 For Professor Daisy Fancourt, the mounting evidence on how engaging with the arts affects our health should transform the way we think about healthcare.
- 🗣️ “It is through our songs and our stories that we best express ourselves, and best understand ourselves, and our place in the world." 🗣️ This week, Finance Secretary Shona Robison announced a real-terms boost to the overall culture budget in 2026-27 📈
- Yesterday, the Scottish Government published its draft budget for 2026-7, which once again increased its investment in culture 🔥 The picture remains mixed, but overall we are encouraged by this attempt to unlock the potential of the arts to improve all our lives 🖼️
- "Let's make sure we have a properly funded BBC that reflects and celebrates who we are." Today in the House of Lords, former BBC Director-General Lord Tony Hall underlined the importance of the BBC as a cultural organisation.
- From everyone at the Campaign for the Arts, thank you for standing up for the arts in 2025 💜 We'll be back in 2026, ready to fight even harder for all of our right to a busy and beautiful cultural life. Until then 🫡
- Nnena’s win is groundbreaking in its own right. As ActionSpace, who have worked with Nnena for over 25 years, put it: “it’s proof that learning disabled artists are not only capable, they are brilliant" ✨
- 🎉 We did it! 🎉 We've been absolutely blown away by the response to our Big Festive Fundraiser, which went well beyond its original target thanks to the generosity of 350 of you – our supporters.
- 'From firefighting to future-building' 🚒 ▷🔮 Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason explains why 2026 is such a big year for us, and why we’re shifting gears as an organisation.
- Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason on the situation, and on the solution 🎞️ 48 hours into our Big Festive Fundraiser, we're 99% of the way there. Thank you so much to everyone who has got us this far. Can you help us get over the final hurdle? 💯 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
- 'I grew up thinking music was something everyone did’ ... and should be able to do ✨ A reflection from Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason – our newest trustee – on how the arts can transform lives 📽️
- It's #GivingTuesday, and CFTA's Big Festive Fundraiser has just begun ✨ This week, and this week only, your donation is doubled. Help us raise £25k and step it up for the arts in 2026. 👉 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
- What did last week's Budget mean for the arts? 📉 Central funding essentially unchanged 🗜 Local funding could be squeezed further 🏛️ Big changes to business rates 🏨 New funding could come from visitor levies 🇬🇧 More £ for the devolved administrations www.campaignforthearts.org/news/what-di...
- CFTA's Big Festive Fundraiser launches tomorrow at noon. Join us in backing a future where the arts are valued and available to all.
- Big news! Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason – mother of the Kanneh-Mason family and a wonderful advocate for access to the arts – has joined the Campaign for the Arts board 👑 And there's more. CFTA's Big Festive Fundraiser launches on Tuesday. For 1 week, all donations will be DOUBLED 💰
- The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves MP, has unveiled the 2025 Autumn Budget 🧮 An initial reaction from the Campaign for the Arts Director Jack Gamble: www.campaignforthearts.org/news/cfta-re...
- 🎆 After years of decline, there’s hope for arts in schools again 🎆 Our take on the Curriculum & Assessment Review, and the government's response to it 🧶 1/10
- 🎆 Could today's Curriculum & Assessment review be a new reason to remember, remember the 5th of November? 🎆 EBacc scrapped, Progress 8 reformed, the arts to be revitalised in a new national curriculum, new core enrichment entitlement. All this and more 👇 www.campaignforthearts.org/news/curricu...
- £132 million to grassroots culture & sport for young people 💰 £10 million to fund libraries in every primary school 📚 What's actually new from Labour Conference 2025? CFTA explains 🔍
- Today at the Labour Party Conference, the Culture Secretary unveiled plans for a new national competition celebrating culture beyond big cities 🏘️ @lisanandymp.bsky.social has advocated for towns throughout her political career, and this competition will sit alongside the UK City of Culture 🏙
- “My hero is anyone who democratises art, who makes it accessible to everyone, who challenges people but makes them want to get involved.” Fresh from hosting the Sky Arts Awards, Bill Bailey is in the Telegraph this week with a loud & proud case for the arts 📢 www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/5d8941b...
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- Owen Cooper's record-breaking Emmy win is a result of his time at Drama MOB, a drama school in Manchester. He is living proof of what young people can achieve when they have access to arts education 🏆
