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It has long been recognised that culture and sport have an important role to play in preventing young people becoming involved in crime and anti-social behaviour. This new policy document has been written with the aim of helping providers of culture and sport services better understand community safety and crime reduction agendas.
Arts Council England and the Local Government Association have announced the Libraries Development Initiative. Part of ACE's wider work with libraries, it is aimed at enabling them to partner with other art forms and arts organisations to improve the cultural experience for users and audiences.
somewhereto_ is a project for 16-25 year olds aimed at helping them to find spaces and places to do the creative and sporty things they want to do. It is funded by Legacy Trust UK as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad and in the Eastern region, the project is being run by Creative Arts East.
DCMS has launched a consultation on the removal of the requirement for a licence for activities currently classed as 'regulated entertainment' in the 2003 Licensing Act. The aim being to reduce the bureaucracy that prevents smaller, community events taking place and to enable new talent to flourish, through de-regulating live music in pubs.
The Arts Council has published Culture, knowledge and understanding: great museums and libraries for everyone - a framework for future cooperation. This publication sets out the future vision for museums and libraries.
SHARE, the Renaissance East of England skills-sharing network, is inviting museums and arts organisations keen to collaborate to take part in a tailored programme of support that will help them better understand each other’s work and lead to a joint project proposal for new entrepreneurial partnership working.
Arts Council England (ACE) has announced details of a major revision to the way in which it will deliver Renaissance in the Regions from October. The core museums model will be scrapped in favour of a programme of major grants, similar to the national portfolio programme that it already runs, and the proposed challenge fund will be replaced with a strategic support fund.
Sportivate is a £32 million Lottery programme that will give 14-25 year olds a chance to learn a new sport. If they keep taking part after the course is finished, they could find themselves on their way to watch the London 2012 Olympic or Paralympics Games!
Arts Council England, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts have come together with the Arts and Humanities Research Council in a new partnership to create a £500,000 digital research and development fund for arts and cultural organisations who want to work with digital technologies.
Hundreds of sports playing fields across the country will be protected and improved through a £10 million National Lottery fund launched by Sport England.