Opinion

How architecture can help the fightback against local arts cuts

By 2024-01-15T00:05:00

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Architects’ creativity can help arts organisations to diversify and maximise their revenue streams, writes Chris Dyson

Last week, Suffolk Council announced that it would completely cut £500k of core funding to the arts. The organisations affected responded by pointing out the limited impact that the savings would make to the local authority’s finances, representing “just 0.057%” of its annual revenue budget. They also highlighted the significant social, wellbeing and economic value of the arts to the area – benefits that can be hard to quantify, but a lifeline for so many.

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