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| Your report on the outcome of the Arts Council’s national portfolio funding round for 2018-2022 (Arts Council to spend £170m more outside London;, 28 June) says that “It was a particularly good day for organisations applying for the first time”. In fact it was a very much better day for organisations already within the portfolio – 96% of which were successful compared with just 37% of new applicants (or 30% if museums and libraries included for the first time in the general portfolio are discounted). | Your report on the outcome of the Arts Council’s national portfolio funding round for 2018-2022 (Arts Council to spend £170m more outside London;, 28 June) says that “It was a particularly good day for organisations applying for the first time”. In fact it was a very much better day for organisations already within the portfolio – 96% of which were successful compared with just 37% of new applicants (or 30% if museums and libraries included for the first time in the general portfolio are discounted). |
| Launching the portfolio, Nicholas Serota said that the Arts Council was looking to support “green shoots” and greater “diversity”. He and his board are perhaps overly self-congratulatory about an outcome that sees a portfolio intended to “disrupt” and “challenge” lose only 24 out of nearly 700 previous awardees and where a third of the new entrants are from the museum sector.Melanie NockInternational Arts Partnership | Launching the portfolio, Nicholas Serota said that the Arts Council was looking to support “green shoots” and greater “diversity”. He and his board are perhaps overly self-congratulatory about an outcome that sees a portfolio intended to “disrupt” and “challenge” lose only 24 out of nearly 700 previous awardees and where a third of the new entrants are from the museum sector.Melanie NockInternational Arts Partnership |
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