Arts Council England blog

Unfortunately the catalyst for collaboration across our sector has often been finance rather than creative zeal. As the current context demonstrates, faced with future financial austerity we are once again attempting to co-operate across and within arts forms (and with the Arts Council) to get our financial arguments heard in government rather than to fully embrace collaborative working as a long-term organisational development strategy.

We’ve received a lot of interest in our research published last week, Community libraries – Learning from experience: guiding principles for local authorities. I thought it would be useful for me to reiterate some of the key findings from the research, and discuss how these informed our guiding principles.

Live chat with Arts Council Chief Executive, Alan Davey, Wednesday 28 November 2012.

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The live chat begins at 12pm.

This is the second of Martel Ollerenshaw’s blog posts about the Take Five talent development project. Read more about the project in her first post.