UK ARTS INDEX LAUNCHED
Monday 5th December saw the launch of the first ever UK Arts Index. Bringing together key data about the sector’s health for the first time ever, the Arts Index plots trends in tickets sales, corporate sponsorship, philanthropy and public sector funding, as well as other performance measures such as attendance levels for adults and young people, satisfaction levels and the number of people volunteering in the arts. Produced by the NCA in partnership with Audiences UK, this inaugural Arts Index report summarises data from across three years – 2007/8–2009/10 – and is the first indicator of how the arts sector across the UK is faring since the economic downturn.
Based on the highly influential US Arts index, and providing a ‘state of the nation’ type health-check for the arts sector, the UK Arts Index is expected to become a key source of information for all those working in the arts in the UK – from government, policy makers and funders to arts organisations and individual artists.
The Index Report is now fully available to the public and can be found here. There is also an Executive Summary, which surmises the details of the report and highlights its key headline figures. It can be found here.
The production of the Arts Index would not have been possible without the help and support of the following organisations, to whom we are enormously grateful:
Audiences UK, Audiences London, Americans for the Arts, Arts and Business, Arts Council England, Arts Council of Wales, Arts Council Northern Ireland and The Department for Culture, Media & Sport.
Thanks too go to Don Foster MP for sponsoring the launch at the House of Commons to Culture Minister Ed Vaizey and Shadow Culture Minister Dan Jarvis, Fundraiser John Nickson and Eastern Angles' Ivan Cutting for speaking.
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