Arts Council England

Northern Ballet headquarters at Quarry Hill in Leeds

The Northern Ballet in Leeds could end live music and will 'reassess touring'

Northern Ballet dancers performing in The Great Gatsby. Photo Johan Persson

Northern Ballet’s decision to cut live music described as 'cultural vandalism'

The moment Bradford found out that it had been awarded 'City of Culture 2025' in Centenary Square. PIC: Bruce Rollinson

Bradford 2025 will show that it is a district of doers - Bex Williams

People in Bradford celebrate after finding out it had been crowned UK City of Culture 2025. Picture by Bruce Rollinson.

Bradford 2025: Cost of UK City of Culture celebration revealed

Darren Henley is chief executive of Arts Council England.

Why we're investing £5m of new funding into Bradford 2025 - Darren Henley

Pete Massey from the Arts Council, Dan Bates and Shanaz Gulzar from Bradford 2025 and Culture Minister Stuart Andrew

Bradford awarded £10 million to help put on City of Culture performances

Joseph Middleton, pianist and director of Leeds Lieder, performing with Dame Sarah Connolly in April 2021. Picture: Justin Slee

Leeds Lieder returns with an impressive line-up of world-class performers

Utopia Theatre is based in Sheffield. Photo: Tim Goode/PA Wire

Why Utopia Theatre is committed to opening up the arts to African audiences

Flamingos at The Bird Garden at Harewood House

Harewood House confirms closure date for Bird Garden after 53 years

L to R, Darren Henley (CEO of Arts Council England), Sir Peter Bazalgette (former chair of ITV plc, chair of Creative Industries Council), Robin Cramp (Business Development Manager at Production Park and XPLOR)

'You are taking Yorkshire to the rest of the world'

Bird keeper Aby Crake with a pink macaw at the bird garden at Harewood House

Harewood House in Yorkshire announces closure of Bird Garden attraction

Paul Fleming of Equity.

Art needs more than the 'lipstick on the pig of austerity' - Paul Fleming

Members of the English National Opera take part in rehearsals. PIC: Ian West/PA Wire

Moving the ENO to Manchester is an ill-conceived idea - Stuart Murphy

The moment Bradford foud out that it had been awarded 'City of Culture 2025' in Centenary Square. PIC: Bruce Rollinson

Investment in creative organisations can make a difference - Darren Henley

11 Million Reasons to Dance. Photo: Sean Goldthorpe

Arts Council England funds a ‘breathtaking’ amount to new organisations

Jonny Best, Artistic Director of Yorkshire Silent Film Festival. Image: Robin Zahler

Silent film festival to share the drama and intrigue of the silent era

The Power of Performance: This Is Us

Ad Feature Rugby League World Cup: Cultural Festival volunteer performers wanted

James Capper

Rotherham families have their chance to make mark on sculpture

Co-director Helen Meller at Lumb Bank in Heptonstall, Hebden Bridge

Building owned by Ted Hughes to be turned into 'beacon for Northern voices'

File photo dated 15/10/2021 of Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries

Extra £75million for arts and culture outside London, Ministers announce

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries today sets out her plan to distribute arts funding more equally around Britain to end a North-South funding divide.

Arts: My plan to end North-South funding divide – Nadine Dorries
WHEN I became Culture Secretary, one of the first things I did was ask officials at my department to provide me with the figures for government arts funding, broken down region by region.

Janet Sewell in the long coridoor leading to the Cold War Underground bunker at Holmpton near Hull she was an ADO at RAF Holmpton from 1959-1973 Picture: Gary Longbottom

Exhibition reveals forgotten story of women who watched skies in Cold War

Light Night Leeds. Picture: Tony Johnson.

Arts funding makes a real difference to Yorkshire venues - Sarah Maxfield

The 1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge Heritage Society was awarded £4,180 by Humber Museums Partnership.

Battle of Stamford Bridge Heritage Society scoops funding for pop-up museum proj...

Mina Hayati community engagement officer pictured with a miner's lunchbox by the empty display cabinets in the back of the van of the Moving Museum. Picture Tony Johnson

Exploring untold history of Doncaster's hidden heritage with moving museum

Paul Fleming, general secretary of Equity

Yorkshire 'losing out because of East-West divide in culture funding'

York Mystery Plays. Picture: Gerard Binks.

New York culture strategy up to 2025 hopes to unlock benefits of the arts for al...

The money will help the North York Moors Historical Railway Trust maintain skilled staff and care for the historic locomotives in its collection

Railway trust to get almost £2m in funding to save historic locomotives

Harkin is among three Yorkshire-based artists to benefit from grants from the PRS Foundation.

Grants boost for Yorkshire musicians from PRS Foundation

Around 16p was received per person of Arts Council England Project Grants in Selby last year - among the least in England. Picture: Gary Longbottom.

Wide disparity in Yorkshire communities receiving Arts Council England grants

National Poetry Day takes place on an annual basis, celebrating and embracing poetry in all its forms, encouraging others to do the same (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s when National Poetry Day 2020 will take place - and how to get involved

Arts Council England chief executive Darren Henley, who has said that "an investment in culture is an investment in our high streets".

Arts sector's adjustment to new reality is 'inspiring' - Yvette Huddleston
At long last, some good news. This week Square Chapel Arts Centre in Halifax announced that it had been saved.

Arts have the power to 'revitalise' high streets, the report said. Picture: JPiMedia

Key role of arts' to in 'revitalising' Yorkshire's high streets

Hull City of Culture 2017

Arts Council urged to spend same on culture in the North as it does in London

The Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, near Keighley

Bronte Parsonage Museum confirm they are in consultation over staff redundancies

Pictured, willow weaver, Leilah Vyner of Dragon Willow with her living willow sculptures installed in at Sands Recreation Ground in Holmfirth as part of the Holmfirth Arts festival. Photo credit: Tony Johnson/JPIMediaResell

Striking sculptures spring up in West Yorkshire as part of iconic arts festival

Grand Opera House, York. The region's cultural industries face uncertain times. Picture: James Hardisty.

Government's Culture Recovery Board 'looks like Notting Hill dinner guest list'

Northern Ballet at the Leeds Grand Theatre. Picture: Tony Johnson.

Yorkshire's arts 'not a luxury' in recovery from pandemic, says Jo Stevens MP

Max May, CEO of Rural Arts in Thirsk. Pic: Gary Longbottom

Yorkshire charity's plan to keep rural areas connected and creative in lockdown

Alan Lane head of Slung Low Theatre Company, Bath Road, Leeds.30th July 2018 ..Picture by Simon Hulme

How Leeds scheme shows bringing culture to the masses is within reach: Alan Lane

The boy band One Direction made their name on The X Factor.

The X Factor requires this change of tune from Simon Cowell to help talented you...

Gareth Southgate (left) speaks to players with regards to racist chanting from fans during the UEFA Euro 2020 Qualifying match at the Vasil Levski National Stadium, in Sofia, this week.

Football can hold a mirror up to society and confront racism - Anthony Clavane

UK arts and culture contributes more to the economy than agriculture

Slung Low's Alan Lane.

Yvette Huddleston: Why we can't allow culture to become the sole preserve of the...

Exhibitions Officer Alison Cooper with the Betty Woodman exhibition at the Cooper Gallery in Barnsley

Ceramics from America via Liverpool on view in Barnsley

The Marsden Jazz Festival

Arts groups share in Â£1m handout to encourage them to raise outside funds

Hepworth Wakefield by Marc Atkins.

Jenny Layfield: The cultural jewels on your doorstep

The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds

World comes to region for new sculpture event

An artist's impression of the redesigned West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Grant bid for West Yorkshire Playhouse plan

The Tempest, one of the Royal Shakespeare Company's latest productions. Picture by Topher McGrilli

More cuts '˜could hit cultural power houses'

Leeds theatre revamp plan will cost Â£785,000

The man who brought Big Brother to our screens named next ITV chairman

Six month delay before stalled arts programme is up and running

John Whittingdale

Whittingdale backs fairer spread of arts funding

The Heydays projects has been running arts activities for over 50s at West Yorkshire Playhouse since 1990. Photo: Chris Thornton

How the '˜transformative' power of the arts can battle loneliness

Council faces soaring bill for theatre revamp after Â£5m funding bid rejected

Baroness Angela Harris of Richmond

Funding plea to ensure Jorvik Viking Centre re-opens

Wanted: design team to turn Leeds’s West Yorkshire Playhouse into a world-beater

Brent Woods, chief executive of The Media Centre, Huddersfield (Picture: Matt Roberts)

‘Government must recognise business value of arts funding’

Michael Dugher addresses the Labour conference

Labour to review regional divide on arts cash