Jeremy and Ed have launched our arts proposals today, as they publish a policy paper on our plans for the sector. Our approach is to provide coherent and sustained support for the arts base centred on the following key principles:
- To secure long term funding for the arts; based on the mixed economy and the arm’s length principle which ensures they have the resources to carry them through the good times and the bad.
- To promote excellence in the arts through greater trust and independence for our arts organisations.
- To use technology and a more coherent approach to arts funding in schools to enable access – we believe as many people as possible should enjoy the arts in all their varied forms in this country.
Ed said:
“Under Labour the arts have not been give the priority they deserve. We cannot go on like this. The arts need coherent and sustained support in order to consolidate and build on their achievements… Conservatives are passionate about the arts and if we are lucky enough to form the next Government, I look forward to working with the sector to create funding stability and promote excellence and access.”
Jeremy has discussed our plans with Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian – you can read the full intervew HERE, and Charlotte’s discussion of it HERE. The Guardian are also running a ‘have your say’ HERE, which you could join in, although we would rather you told us what you think here on our blog, by signing in and posting in our comments section below.
You can download the full paper here: The Future of the Arts
