Arts Council: West Midlands
(asked on 5th January 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the Arts Council spent in the West Midlands (a) in each year of this Parliament and (b) since 2010.
Arts Council England has provided the below data pertaining to total funding in the West Midlands since 2010. Due to a change in the Arts Council’s grant management system in 2016, data from before that date are not reliably comparable with more recent data. For example, data on funding for “Regularly Funded Organisations” (the predecessors to National Portfolio Organisations) are not included in these figures in 2010-12. Noting this caveat, we have provided the figures nonetheless for completeness.
Arts Council England funding to the West Midlands | |
Year | Funding awarded |
2010/11 | £ 9,666,079 |
2011/12 | £ 8,647,935 |
2012/13 | £ 66,462,145 |
2013/14 | £ 66,080,822 |
2014/15 | £ 62,956,069 |
2015/16 | £ 62,887,795 |
2016/17 | £ 64,072,560 |
2017/18 | £ 68,410,952 |
2018/19 | £ 73,549,387 |
2019/20 | £ 80,418,153 |
2020/21 | £ 154,252,274 |
2021/22 | £ 91,028,435 |
2022/23 | £ 86,361,062 |
2023/24 | £ 79,826,119 |
Arts Council England’s open funding programmes (such as National Lottery Project Grants, and Develop Your Creative Practice) are open to organisations and individuals across the country to apply to, including those in the West Midlands.
Grants awarded from the Arts Council’s main funding streams within the last 5 financial years (2023/2024 inclusive) are published online and provide details of all organisations that receive funding.They are available in the following locations:
Developing Your Creative Practice
Investment Programme (2018-2022 NPO)
Investment Programme (2023-2026 NPO)