| Description | Series of articles about funding for the arts. Folder 1 covers the period 2002 to 2011, topics include the role of state subsidy, the Arts Council 2001 report "A Living Theatre", increased funding to theatres, an artists boycott in Belfast over council funding cuts, Arts Council England's first three-year spending review, the role of private donations and business sponsorship, the 2004 cuts in funding, a three year freeze on Arts Co8uncil England revenue grant until 2008, a request from theatre owners for government to fund half of £250 million needed to restore listed Victorian and Edwardian theatres in the West End, grants terminated to 120 cultural organisations in 2005, concerns at "stop-start" funding, Heritage Lottery Fund funding for the National Theatre Studio refurbishment in 2006, Folder 2 covers January to July 2010, topics include a campaign to save the Bush Theatre, calls for increased private sponsorship and funding, protests at BP sponsorship of Tate Modern, and concerns over increased cuts to funding after the Autumn 2010 budget |