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What Next? is a free-to-access movement that brings together small and large organisations and freelancers to debate and shape arts & culture in the UK.

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Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org · 23/07/2025

The Campaign for the Arts will never stop banging this drum, for and with citizens like you 🥁 Join the campaign now campaignforthearts.org/join/ #StateOfTheArts #ArtsFunding

Part 2 of a quotation reading: "The data provided by the Campaign for the Arts shows an erosion of funding that is deeply concerning. We have already seen the impact of years of retrenchment on people and organisations and on the communities that they serve; affecting jobs, buildings, the talent pipeline, innovation and opportunity.

There are holes in the fabric and we cannot afford for this to continue. Government has the ability and the mechanisms to turn this trajectory around: to fix these foundations, but also to be ambitious for our collective future. We need new ideas and models, risk and creativity. We need DCMS and the Treasury to listen and to act.”

By Lizzie Crump & Clare Thurman, Co-Directors of What Next?

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Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org · 23/07/2025

💬 “There are holes in the fabric and we cannot afford for this to continue. Government has the ability and the mechanisms to turn this trajectory around: to fix these foundations, but also to be ambitious for our collective future."

Part 1 of a quotation, reading: "Public funding for the arts and culture is critical to the fabric of our society. Culture is part of a vital ecosystem that feeds the creative industries and contributes to growth – but is far more than the sum of these parts. The arts and culture are about joy, community, and the creation of new ideas and shared experiences.

It is a professional sector in its own right – one made up of large and small organisations, and powered by people (largely freelancers). It contributes strongly to many other agendas – from health to education – but is not defined by them."

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Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org · 23/07/2025

It’s week 4 of our annual arts health check 🩺 Today, we look at Arts Funding 👇

Title page with heading "4. Arts Funding" and description "A society in which the arts are healthy is one in which there is robust and sustained funding, from both public and private sources, so arts initiatives can grow and flourish.”

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