From thestage.co.uk

Arts Council England has unveiled proposals for a new “politician-proof” ten-year plan that would see a radical shake-up of its funding system, including allowing grant applications from the commercial theatre sector for the first time in decades.

The organisation has this week published Achieving Great Art for Everyone, a consultation paper putting forward its priorities for the next ten years. The arts sector is being asked to voice its own views on the plans, which will be taken into account by ACE, before a final strategy framework is published later in 2010, after the general election.

ACE chief executive Alan Davey said that the document was being created in part in response to criticisms of the arts council’s handling of its last investment strategy and hoped it would help avoid the clashes which had occurred between the sector and ACE on that occasion.

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