Arts & Business in the news
26 February 2010
Financial Times: Arts sponsors seek better value for money
Colin Tweedy, chief executive of Arts & Business, said the trend to make more explicit links between cultural sponsorship and business interests had intensified
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February
Charitytimes: Keeping control on one wild ride
Arts & Business, which promotes private sector support for the arts, chief executive Colin Tweedy argues that it is this year that will see fundraising bottom out. Already its figures show a drop in individual giving in arts of seven per cent for 2008/2009 – a figure it was relatively grateful for given that it saw a drop of 14 per cent at the beginning of the 1990s. However, this year it’s concerned it could drop a further 10 per cent
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28 November 2009
Art groups innovate to bring donors into family, by Peter Aspden, Arts Correspondant, Financial Times
Arts groups are trying to armour themselves against looming public spending cuts through an aggressive pursuit of wealthy donors and increasingly sophisticated collaborations with both artistic rivals and the private sector. Colin Tweedy said it ought to brace itself for bad news in the spending round, but in the end, artists innovate to adapt to new environments. Latest figures from Arts & Business show that while corporate sponsorship has faltered in the past 12 months, especially outside London, donations from individuals have increased.
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4 November 2009
The Stage today - Arts & Business lobbies for private sector incentives
Arts & Business Chief Executive Colin Tweedy is calling on the government to create incentive schemes for private donors who sponsor cultural organisations, in order to boost investment and maintain the health of the arts industry
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13 October 2009
Johann Hari of the Independent named UK's leading cultural commentator
Johann Hari of the Independent was this morning named as the UK’s leading cultural commentator at the inaugural Comment Awards. Arts & Business supported this category, working with a panel of distinguished judges to find the cultural commentator whose articles stood out by stimulating knowledge and broadening debate. Colin Tweedy comments:
“Arts & Business is delighted that Johann Hari has been named as the Cultural Commentator. We always look forward to his brilliant articles - making sense of the cultural clutter of the present to see the hopes of the future."
In a world of twitter, facebook and blogs, there is still no replacement for an intelligent and spirited piece of newspaper writing to make far-reaching cultural comment.”
The Comment Awards are organised by Editorial Intelligence.
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