| Description | Series of articles about arts funding. Topics include a campaign against cuts in funding by prominent actors, assurances from the government that subsidies won't drop under the 2008 - 2011 spending plan, the Prime Minister's acknowledgment of 'spectacular' achievements in the arts and that lottery fund would not be diverted away from the arts for the 2012 Olympics, the subsequent cut in Arts Council England funding as Olympics budget triples and lottery funding for good causes directed to the Olympics, pressure for a debate and vote in Parliament on reallocation of funds from the arts to the Olympics rejected by the government, proposals for the four year Cultural Olympiad, concerns planned funding for renovation of West End theatres would be postponed, corporate sponsorship such as the National Theatre Connections programme sponsored by Shell, the Government autumn spending review's inflationary increase for funding for the arts, Conservative party plans for separate departments for arts and sports theatre owners urged to tackle refurbishment deficit from their own resources, the campaign to save Wilton's music hall |