In August 2008, Arts Council England (ACE) planned to reduce the proportion of its budget spent on internal costs by 15% by 2010-11. In 2007-08 the figure was £49 million.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In August 2008, it was stated that the Cultural Sector Development Initiative, based in the North-east of England, would commit £32.2 million to cultural sector development by December 2008, directly benefiting 6,600 businesses and 3,431 businesses in the Northeast of England.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In October 2007, after the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's (DCMS) distribution of funding from 2007's comprehensive spending review, ACE's income was set to rise by £50 million to £467 million in 2010-11.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2007-08 ACE invested more than £529 million of government and lottery money.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2008 ACE stated it would invest £1.3 billion of regular funding to 880 arts organisations in England.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2008 the Grants for the Arts programme had funded just under half of the projects for which it received applications since its launch in 2003.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2007-08, the lottery funded ACE Grants for the Arts scheme awarded 2,800 grants totalling almost £57 million.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

Between 2005 and 2008, ACE's Grants for the Arts scheme distributed over £350 million. From 2007 onwards, all Grants for the Arts schemes were lottery funded.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2008, the average estimated size of a grant received through ACE's Grants for the Arts programme was £5,900 for individuals, £26,000 for organisations and £46,000 for national activities.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2008 it was stated that both the diversion of ACE lottery funds to the 2012 London Olympics, and a decline in lottery ticket sales, had affected funding for the Grants for the Arts programme.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2007-08, the DCMS provided ACE with £424 million in funding, compared to £427 in 2006-07. Ring-fenced funding was provided for certain schemes as follows: £34.8 million for Creative Partnerships; £0.4 million for Young People's Arts Awards; £0.1 million for Youth Theatre; £4.9 million for the Cultural Leadership Fund; £1.4 million for Cultural Hubs; £1.0 million for other Capital Funds. In addition, ACE received £10 million of grants and donations for specific projects from other organisations.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

During 2007-08, ACE gave grants to its regularly funded organisations worth £326 million, and awards worth £1 million under the Grants for the Arts scheme.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In December 2007, DCMS announced that ACE funding for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 would be £430.9 million, £445 million and £468 million respectively.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11, ACE's annual funding included undesignated capital of £2 million, £1.5 million and £3 million respectively, earmarked for pilot programmes of Find Your Talent.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

Lottery grant commitments made by ACE in 2007-08 totalled £91 million. In 2006-07 the total figure was £128 million.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In February 2008, legislation was passed allowing the transfer of up to £1,085 million from the National Lottery Distribution Fund to the Olympic Lottery Distribution Fund. The figure comprised £410 originally earmarked for the Olympics from the Lottery, and a further £675 million arising from budget reviews.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

As part of the initial London bid for the 2012 Olympic Games, ACE committed to contributing up to £50 million in lottery money. By February 2008 this figure had risen to a potential maximum of £113 million. The first transfer of ACE lottery money was set to occur in February 2009, when ACE would transfer up to £8 million t the Olympic Lottery Distribution Fund.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2007-08 92% of ACE's income derived from the National Lottery.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In July 2008 the British Council Arts Group announced it would be working in closer partnership with ACE, with a memorandum of understanding due to be published in January 2009.
Action Plan for the Arts, British Council, July 2008

In early 2008 ACE announced the investment of 1.3 billion over the course of the following spending review period, 2008-11.
'Excellence, innovation and reach - Arts Council England announces regular funding decisions for 2008-2011' (ACE Press Release), ACE, February 2008

In ACE's allocation of regular funding from the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review, 185 organisations had their funding cut and 27 had their funding reduced.
'Excellence, innovation and reach - Arts Council England announces regular funding decisions for 2008-2011' (ACE Press Release), ACE, February 2008

The ACE funding programme for 2008-11 invested funds in 888 organisations including 81 previously unfunded groups, with 753 (76%) of ACE funded organisations receiving above inflation increases in funding.
'Excellence, innovation and reach - Arts Council England announces regular funding decisions for 2008-2011' (ACE Press Release), ACE, February 2008

The ACE funding programme 2008-11 invested 200,000 in Literature with the aim of encouraging interaction between writers, children and young people, and further promotion of reading following 2007's National Year of Reading.
'Excellence, innovation and reach - Arts Council England announces regular funding decisions for 2008-2011' (ACE Press Release), ACE, February 2008

Total value of grants awarded by ACE between 1996-97 and 2006-07

In 2006-07, 53% of ACE funding went to its regularly funded organisations. 23% was spent on the Grants for the Arts programme (an open access funding stream). 9% was spent on administration. 5% was spent respectively on managed funding (funding for new initiatives decided upon by the ACE, not open to application) and creative partnerships (bringing artists into educational environments), and 6% on other costs.
Annual review 2007, ACE, 2007

In 2005-06, ACE distributed £300.8 million to its regularly funded organisations
Regularly funded organisations: key data from the 2005/06 annual submission, ACE, July 2007

The largest source of revenue for ACE's regularly funded organisations in 2005-06 was earned income, which represented 44% of total income. Arts Council subsidy made up 36% of total income, local authority or other public funding 12%, and donations and private contributions 9%.
Regularly funded organisations: key data from the 2005/06 annual submission, ACE, July 2007

In 2005-06 the six ACE funded national companies- the Royal Opera House (including the Royal Ballet), the English National Opera, Birmingham Royal Ballet, The Southbank Centre, (including the Hayward Gallery and Royal Festival Hall), the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company- received £103.8 of Arts Council subsidy, 32% of the total subsidy reported by the Arts Council's RFOs. They generated 25% of regularly funded organisations' income during the year.
Regularly funded organisations: key data from the 2005/06 annual submission, ACE, July 2007

Subsidy per attendance by region for ACE's regularly funded organisations in 2005-06 was as follows- Yorkshire £7.20, West Midlands £5.34, (£8.96 including national companies), North East £5.34, East £4.98, North West £4.04, East Midlands £3.96, London £3.15 (£5.44 including national companies), South East £3.14, South West £2.29.
Regularly funded organisations: key data from the 2005/06 annual submission, ACE, July 2007

In 2006 it was estimated that the "top ten" national performing arts and cultural organisations received almost 50% of ACE's revenue funding budget.
Greenstreet, T. and Robinson, S., Mission Unaccomplished, Arts Professional, 6 November 2006

In 2003-04 ACE distributed £168 million of Lottery money to arts projects. The arts sector's share of Awards for All amounted to another £5.9 million. Government grant-in-aid distributed by ACE to arts organisations in the same period totalled £277 million.
Todd, V. What about the arts, Lottery Monitor, September 2005

Funding for ACE's regularly funded organisations was due to increase for 200 organisations and decrease for 50 in 2006-07 and 2007-08.
Jowell, T. A manifesto for the arts, nca news 69, Spring 2005