Arts council funding: the winners and losers

Almost one in four of the Arts Council funding losers – 47 of the 206 organisations losing their entire grants – are based in London. The capital and the south-east were hit hard, but that partly reflects the number of arts organisations based there. Although a cash increase was announced for 321 organisations nationally, allowing for inflation running at over 4% only 275 will see an increase in real terms. Most of the organisations get well under £500,000 a year, with only 65 over the £800,000 mark – and of those, 54 will suffer a real-terms cut. Many of the biggest, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, will see their money cut by 15% in real terms over the three-year funding agreement. In percentage terms many small regional organisations, particularly those with contemporary art and music and touring ambitions, have done best. Here are some real-term winners and losers by region and discipline: London Art ICA, where new director Gregor Muir took office only last month: 42% cut Barbican arts centre: 108% increase Theatre Shared Experience: entire grant cut Almeida: 49% cut Arcola: 82% increase Punchdrunk: 141% increase Music Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: 15% real-terms cut Dance The Place: 20% cut. The Cholmondeleys and the Featherstonehaughs: entire grant cut Literature English Pen, promoter of writers and writing: 190% increase Poetry Book Society, established by TS Eliot in 1953: entire grant cut North-east and north-west Art Baltic centre for contemporary art, Gateshead: increase to nearly £3m Mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art): 143% increase Yorkshire Sculpture Park: 15% cut Museums Sheffield contemporary art programme: grant cut Theatre Theatre by the Lake, Keswick: 22% increase Maltings Theatre, Berwick: 270% increase Dance Ballet Lorent, Gateshead: 35% increase Music Psappha, a new music group based in Glossop, Derbyshire: 40% increase Literature New Writing North: 50% increase Midlands Art Phoenix Arts, Leicester: new grant Lincoln Arts Trust: almost 300% increase Threshold Studios, Northampton: 108% increase Theatre Buxton Opera House: 10% cut Red Earth Theatre, Derbyshire: new grant Dance Retina dance company, Nottingham: 25% increase Dance4, Nottingham: 47% increase Literature Tindal Street, a Birmingham-based independent publisher: entire grant cut East, south-east and south Art Colchester Arts Centre: 53% increase Norfolk and Norwich festival: 87% increase ArtSway, New Forest: entire grant cut Towner Gallery, Eastbourne: 81% increase Theatre Watermill Theatre Newbury: 28% increase Trestle theatre, based in St Albans: grant cut New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth: 50% cut Music Britten Sinfonia: 12% increase Glyndebourne touring opera and education: 2% cut Academy of Ancient Music, Cambridge: £171,000 first-time grant Aldeburgh Music: 10% cut Dance Dance East, Ipswich: 27% increase South-west Art Cornwall Arts Centre, Truro: 24% cut Dorchester Arts Centre: 56% increase Watershed Arts, Bristol: 106% increase Theatre Bristol Old Vic: no change Forkbeard Fantasy, Bristol: entire grant cut Northcott theatre, Exeter: entire grant cut Music Bath Festivals: 11% cut Wren Music, Devon: entire grant cut Dance Dance South West: 103% increase • this article was amended on 1 April 2011. The original said incorrectly that Phoenix Arts, Leicester and Red Earth Theatre, Derbyshire had had their grants cut. In fact they have new grants. This has been corrected.