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Music education is to be a renewed focus for Arts Council England (ACE) and its latest National Investment Portfolio (NIP) for 2015-18.
The comments came from Craig Monk, music relationship manager at ACE, who said that the organisation has taken on ‘additional responsibilities’ for music education hubs in the current funding period.
According to the body, an estimated 670 arts, music and other cultural bodies across England are sharing annual grants of £340m during this current funding period of 2015-2018.
Figures show there has been an 88 percent increase in funding for contemporary popular music funding from 2012-15 to 2015-18. Opera/music theatre benefited from a 22.5 percent funding increase between the two corresponding periods.
Craig Monk, music relationship manager at ACE, said: ‘The future of all these art forms is about young people taking them up, having the tools to be critical as audiences and be involved as both audiences and participants.
‘We know that from audience surveying, the best signifier of whether someone engages with the arts is whether they were involved as a young person. It also acts as a good indicator of the likelihood of someone volunteering or voting. So it’s certainly an exciting development that ACE has become more involved. It means our work as music relationship managers is broader than ever, but it feels like the right place to be because of the great importance of the work.’
Craig was keen to point out that the council had to take a number of tough decisions due to the ongoing issues with public funding; 'in a happier world, where we hadn’t seen such decreases in public spending, we’d be able to fund a lot more of the applications we receive. But this is the reality of recession/post-recession era Britain. In this round, we received far more good applications than we were able to fund. I know it’s a cliché but we had tough decisions to take.'
Check out our pie chart below illustrating the the split across musical genre for this latest funding round as part of the NIP. Read the full comment piece from Craig in the latest issue of the print magazine.
The comments came from Craig Monk, music relationship manager at ACE, who said that the organisation has taken on ‘additional responsibilities’ for music education hubs in the current funding period.
According to the body, an estimated 670 arts, music and other cultural bodies across England are sharing annual grants of £340m during this current funding period of 2015-2018.
Figures show there has been an 88 percent increase in funding for contemporary popular music funding from 2012-15 to 2015-18. Opera/music theatre benefited from a 22.5 percent funding increase between the two corresponding periods.
Craig Monk, music relationship manager at ACE, said: ‘The future of all these art forms is about young people taking them up, having the tools to be critical as audiences and be involved as both audiences and participants.
‘We know that from audience surveying, the best signifier of whether someone engages with the arts is whether they were involved as a young person. It also acts as a good indicator of the likelihood of someone volunteering or voting. So it’s certainly an exciting development that ACE has become more involved. It means our work as music relationship managers is broader than ever, but it feels like the right place to be because of the great importance of the work.’
Craig was keen to point out that the council had to take a number of tough decisions due to the ongoing issues with public funding; 'in a happier world, where we hadn’t seen such decreases in public spending, we’d be able to fund a lot more of the applications we receive. But this is the reality of recession/post-recession era Britain. In this round, we received far more good applications than we were able to fund. I know it’s a cliché but we had tough decisions to take.'
Check out our pie chart below illustrating the the split across musical genre for this latest funding round as part of the NIP. Read the full comment piece from Craig in the latest issue of the print magazine.
