subject: The Arts Council In Disfavour With Public Over £20,000 Christmas Party [print this page] The Arts Council In Disfavour With Public Over 20,000 Christmas Party
The Arts Council has somewhat fallen out of favour with the tax payers, since the release of the news of the quango's over expenditure in the last year, which in the face of budget cuts has made an even bigger impact on local artists and creative groups.
The Arts council is set to see devastating cuts over the next few years, starting from 14% in 2011 and then eventually increasing to 30%. Other arts quangos are also to see some shifting around in government money, seeing in total around 15% of arts funding cut.
Already art funded bodies have begun to make drastic cuts, cutting their budget by 10%. Often, this has sadly been in the form of jobs but also administration costs.
On top of these issues, the Arts Council is finding times even tougher with the criticism received over its loose expenditure in the last few years, which include 20,000 on a Christmas party, 100,000 spent on office redecoration and an extra 2.5 million bill on the cost of reorganisation.
In years prior to this, the quango has poured money into building venues, eventually going so severely over budget that they have cost the tax payer around 32 million. The West Bromwich arts centre funded by the Arts Council was a big flop and did not even open, and the 15 million pound Sheffield Pop museum was re-established as a students union.
Redundancies have also cost the Arts Council 2.5 million in the last year, which they have had to explain to the new government.
All of these cuts and over expenditures will affect the artistic society the most seeing cuts of 40% for higher education, cutting back the number of art places at University, and 30% of cuts affecting local government authorities, affecting local art events and festivities.
With the heavy load of these cuts upon their back, it look's like the arts council is set to not be hosting a 20,000 Christmas party this year. An with the massive amount of cuts, will they even find enough Christmas cheer to even host a small Christmas party?
In the face of reorganisation and cuts, many businesses, sole traders and charities are still choosing to attend a Christmas party. And despite all the economic problems, we can still enjoy Christmas the season of good will to all.
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