The Arts Council of England Annual Report 1998.Pdf

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2 Chairman's introduction 4 Chief Executive's report 6 Milestones in the year 8 Lord Cowrie's review 10 Financial summary, performance indicators , spending by region

17 Departmental reviews

36 Arts Council Collectio n 38 Whats more. . . 40 National Lottery overview

43 The Council 46 Advisory panels 48 Regional Arts Boards

49 The Accounts 106 New Council members 107 Further information The Arts Council of Englan d annual report and accounts 1998

The Arts Council of England is a successor body to the Arts Council of Great Britain (ACGB), which wa s established in 1946. On 1 April 1994, the ACGB's responsibilities and functions were transferred to thre e new bodies : The Arts Council of England, The Scottis h Arts Council and The Arts Council of Wales . (The Arts Council of Northern Ireland was already established a s a separate body. ) The Arts Council of England operates under a Roya l Charter granted in 1994 and its objectives are : • to develop and improve the knowledge, understandin g and practice of the art s • to increase the accessibility of the arts to the publi c • to advise and co-operate with departments o f government, local authorities, the Arts Councils for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and other bodies .

The Arts Council of England, as a publicly accountabl e body, publishes an annual report and accounts to provid e Parliament and the general public with an overview of th e year's work. m hr.? - I Chairman ' s introduction

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04 THE ARTS NEVER STAND STILL. Nor does the society in which the}, take shape.

In the past few years the arrival of Lottery funds an d a new government have produced a different climat e and new opportunities . The Arts Council could no t have chosen a better time to take stock and make a The arts have not received adequate public ftuldin g fresh start. over recent years . The Government went a long wa y to putting that right in the summer of 1998 . With Radical change, like much good art, is bound t o those extra revenues we want to start things, to make please some and discomfit others . But everything we things happen that would otherwise not happen . But do is underpinned by a passion for the arts - and a we don't want to create dependencies : a leg-up from set of beliefs that everyone who loves the arts mus t the Arts Council will not mean a free ride for life . surely share. Good management is not the enemy of good art ; The Arts Council believes that the arts enrich our nor is popularity a sign of bad art . On the contrary, lives in a variety of ways . They express what cannot growing audiences and financial viability should be be communicated by any other means . They enable recognised as important goals for arts companies an d us to explore our deepest feelings and values, our indicators of their success . The Arts Council will individual and shared identities . They have enormou s foster success and reward it ; encourage companie s educational importance - and economic value, too , that show promise ; and help those whose long-term as one of the nation's largest and most successful viability is in the balance. But we will never have industries. They promote the health and well-being enough money to spare for those that cannot hel p of our comnninities and our society as a whole . 0 themselves. 0

The arts sever stand still o Nor does the society in which they take shape .

The new Arts Council of England intends to be a Radical change is not comfortable . The Counci l national, policy-led authority speaking on behalf o f recognises the impact that our restructuring an d the arts, leading the arts constituency, engaging wit h redefinition of roles is having on peopl e's workloads the Government and other bodies on issues tha t and, in some cases, job prospects . We are gratefu l affect the arts, and instigating national initiatives . to them for maintaining the continuing innovatio n and progress which constitute `business as usual' i n I emphasise the word `national' . We want decision s the arts. We intend to complete the transition as about arts policy and funding to be made as close quickly as possible and to provide a clear idea o f to the point of impact as possible . That means more where the future lies - for people in our funded arts delegation to Regional Arts Boards and to our ow n organisations as well as in the Arts Council itself. excellent staff. The Arts Council of England will focus on being the champion of the arts as a whole, One thing is already clear. The Arts Council has once in the country as a whole . Within the slimmed-down again demonstrated its ability to reinvent itself an d Council itself there is no room for special pleadin g its willingness to adapt to changing circumstances . or fiefdoms . These are characteristics which the arts, and artists , have always had in abundance - they're what kee p the arts alive and artists fed . In the Arts Council the y will enable us to move forward confidently on ou r exciting, challenging and vitally important mission : to develop, sustain and promote the arts in England .

2 3 Gerry Robinson Chairma n a Arts Council of England September 1998 C 0

V e Audience development is key to any organisation' s long-term viability. We are encouraging efforts to DURING THE YEAR, the Arts Council began a reach ncNv audiences through touring, schemes to fundamental programme of change which wil l introduce young people to the arts, and promotiona l resonate throughout the arts in England . Change initiatives such as concessions and vouchers . These was essential, and was stimulated by : efforts have been boosted by an extra £5nl from th e • Five years of grant-in-aid cuts and standstills Government for the New Audiences programme , • An imbalance caused (until recently) by revenu e announced in March 1998 . famine and capital feas t • New government policies inviting support fo r Revenue funding: To ensure the sustainability o f young people, the voluntary sector and the the cultural sector as a whole, we want to give arts creative industrie s organisations longer timcscales over which they can • New legislation allowing devolution of Lottery plan. At the same time, we will review the patter n funding and encouraging a more proactive rol e of distribution more rigorously : there should be no in stimulating arts activities automatic funding for life . Increasingly we will fund • The need to re-establish the Arts Council as a organisations for contractually-fixed periods - modern institution exercising national leadershi p typically three to five years. Before each period on behalf of all the arts in all of England . expires we will thoroughly assess their performance and decide whether to renew funding or to releas e In our new Chairman's words, the Arts Council i s the resources for other, emerging organisations and reinventing itself. What does this mean, in practice? 0 activities. 0

The Arts Council began a fundamental programme of change, which will resonate throughout the arts in England .

The Council Capital fiasading: Over the past few years we have Ill June 1998 a new, smaller Council was announced . committed a great deal of Lottery money to capital Its 11 members bring together expertise in all th e projects. These awards have funded many flagship artfornls, without directly representing or answerin g arts developments ; they have also created high to any individual artform or region . expectations throughout the arts world . However, the reduction in our share of Lottery money and ou r The Arts Council has much to do over the next desire to achieve a greater balance between fieldin g few months and years ; its streamlined structure wil l activities and buildings means that we will not be abl e enable it to make speedier decisions . Many of the to meet all demands in the future . decisions previously taken in Council will in future be taken closer to where their impact will be felt, by To help us manage our commitments and cash floxv s people with local knowledge and specialist expertis e to best effect, we are considering a new approach to - particularly by Regional Arts Boards and Art s capital funding. This invites everyone involved in the Council directors working with advisory panels. arts - arts organisations, local authorities, othe r partners in capital development - to take a long-ter m Funding policy view. The country's roads, hospitals and schools ar e Integration: For accountability reasons we mus t planned as part of a long-term investment programme . maintain the distinction between our Treasur y The arts should be no different . We will seek to and Lottery revenue streams ; but for operationa l deliver a carefiilly considered strategy for capital efficiency we will now plan and administer th e assistance . distribution of fiends in an increasingly integrated way. However, \ve remain convinced that Lottery The Regional Arts Board s fielding should never replace core national and loca l From April 1999 we will further increase th e government money for the arts . delegation of funding decisions to the RABs , focusing our own attention on overall policy, th e Sustaiuability: The long-term health of the arts and fielding of organisations which arc truly national , arts organisations is our main objective . Organisations and other arts initiatives of national significance . that get into difficulties - particularly those damage d This will require changes in culture and resource s by the funding constraints of recent years - ma y at both the Arts Council and the RABs . As with need a one-off injection of support to return them regularly funded arts organisations, we intend to to long-term stability. This should not be an easy make grants to RABs on a fixed term basis to enabl e option: ally rescue plan should both require an d them to plan more strategically. enable real change. The results of our trial stabilisation programme have been encouragin g and we will roll out a full stabilisation programm e this year.

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O O L -~ Peter Hewitt a Chief Executive's report

Administration Outlook As we ci .u'iti our role, we are urcamlining ou r I believe 1998 to be a seminal year tier the arts . A administration . There arc now three directorates : new leadership has been installed at the Arts Council . Arts Y Policy, Finance & (lperatiorts, an d The Govcnimcm has responded with a significan t Comm m stations . A single Arts K Policy directorat e increase in the grant-in-aid aver the next three year s will enable us Ur intet ;ruc our two incrrnlc stream s and a55urances about lottery funding her that period and u5c them to maxrmisc benclit tier the arts . and beyond . New policy directions hayc bee n Finance , (lheratit,ns will be resp()nsiblc h,r financia l intr•oduccd by Government and embraced by the Art s strategy, manaF*cment and accountability. Th e (L(ittncil . We have a planned agenda ti,r delivering th e Cuntnourtic,nions (lirccl(,rate will enable us to dcyclrr p national capital infrastructure . ]'he arts world, despit e a cr, urdiri,ued approach to all our cr,mmunication s the battering of the last t6x years, remains resolw c including ttledia, public affairs, inli,rmation, an d Mid energised . Om- I,>li is to cnsurc that artists, art s publications . organisations and the public now benclit from th e trcntelidolls olportimiticti which arc ()Pell to tis A t It k not enough ti,r the tio% Arts Cowtcil to be this key nunnent For the arts in England . fi,nyand thinking in its mal()trk and policies . It Should also he at the leading, edgL7 ill its u5C o f 4 inti,rmatiun syStcnls t„ improve yu,thty of service . 5 11'e intend tO he .tn Cxamplc to .ill arts organisation s in our efticicnc%, Ilemkihty and responsiycness . Our aim is to be less paper drincn and better abl e to act yuickle, consistently and transparently . Peter Hewitt

Art" ('wmeil a(Enlilland September 1998'

Milestones in the yea r

IN AN EVENTFUL YEAR tier the Arts Council, there %%crc nunicrous suciCtiy c% .lilt{, by the end of March , a niajor process of change had bcc i }g ut in train . This ►will radically ref'Orni the arts funding systcm 111,1 significantly improve the service that the Arts ( :ounci l ollcrs to artists and audiences .

Many of the year's major issues recurred as regula r themes on an almost weekly basis . ' l-lijs diary .foes no inure than highlight sonic of the kcy niomcnts .

May Jun e The Labour Government is electe d Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Councii receives a L37m Lotter y The Arts Council makes three film grant to convert the Baltic Flou r franchise awards . totalling L95 m Mills into a major art gallery fo r over six years. The recipients ar e contemporary art . DNA Films Limited, The Fil m Consortium and Pathe Pictures . Thanks to Lottery funding . Darlington unveils the brick Train Left: School children weigh up (below), a sculpture by David Mac h -:3sure for Measure during a n celebrating the town's special rol e Licat :onal workshop held by the in the Industrial Revolution and th e English Touring Theatre . development of railways .

Jul y Augus t Thy N , . C ounril publishe s The first round of A4E Main result s 71~iough Learnnng, its educatio n In 112 organisations receivin g ; i,cy. f19m for projects running over th e next three years . The subsequent The Government issues new figure s two rounds attract another 166 im Lottery distribution . These result successful applications, whic h m the Arts Council and the othe r receive a further f19m . + sting 'good causes' revising thei r ,,nticipated income downward .

The first 12 organisations join the Lottery-funded stabilisatio n programme . September September (continued ) The Government publishes its white The Arts Council agrees that the Paper on changes to the distributio n Regional Arts Boards - i n of Lottery funds . These will enable association with the national Arts the Arts Council to be strategic in it s Councils - will operate The Year of decision making on Lottery revenue , the Artist in 2000 , and to delegate some decisions . Edward Walker-Arnott publishes his The Arts Council sets up a strategy review of the relationship betwee n group to consider its future . Thi s the Arts Council and the Roya l group initiates the change proces s Opera House . which will continue through 199 8 and 1999 .

Octobe r November English National Opera joins th e In conjunction with the Regiona l Lottery-funded stabilisation Arts Boards, the Arts Council start s programme . formulating a new capital strategy for Lottery Spending . Stephen Fry (left) collects the outstanding performance prize for the The Cornerhouse cinema i n Lottery-funded Wilde at the British Manchester is completed with Film Festival in Dinard, France. Five Lottery funds : so is the Hall fo r other Lottery-funded films are also Cornwall arts and entertainmen t selected for the festival . They are : centre in Truro . My Son the Fanatic, photographing Fairies . Shooting Fish, Swept fro m the Sea (released in Britain as Amy Foster] and The Tango Lesson.

Decembe r January 1998 (continued) The grant in aid is announced - a cut The Secretary of State announce s of Ll rim to L184 .Gnt . that Gerry Robinson, Chairman o f Granada . is to be the next Chairma n Below right : Sheffield's Clay Cros s of the Arts Council . Infant School receives a L5,000 A4E Etipress award to create a Leeds-based Northern School o f taclile mural for its playground. Contemporary Dance opens it s It draws its inspiration from local Lottery-funded extension, improving history, culture, business an d its rehearsal facilities, training industry . capacity and community resources .

February Marc h Peter Hewitt, former Chief Executiv e The Directory of Social Change of Northern Arts, is appointed a s awards its Success of the Year titl e Chief Executive of the Arts Council , to A4E Express, which distributed He takes up his post in March . 121 .7m to 5,325 organisation s 6 from every community throughou t Antony Gormley's Angel of the North the country . Judging by the presen t is put In place beside the Al . Thi s pattern of activity, the Arts Counci l winged figure - 20m high with a anticipates that the scheme wil l wingspan of 54m - will watch ove r uitFinately involve around 12 m 90,000 passing vehicles every day, people as participants and/o r as well as trains on the East Coast audience members at a subsid y rail line . per head of about £1 .61 . LORD GOWRIE looks back over his four years as Chairman of the Arts Council of England In the first pears of the new Arts Council of England , we set ourselves three strategic aims : to restore the grant-in-aid ; to inaugurate the distribution of ou r share of National Lottery money; and to involve You do not have to be a great aesthete to recognise the Regional Arts Boards more closely in decision - that art, like all human creativity, generates itself . making as a preparation for a devolution of power s Mankind secretes culture as silkworms silk . Withou t that was clearly under way. subsidy art would continue . But the high arts have always been subsidised. Shakespeare and Wagne r We put pressure on John Major's administration , depended on the ruling class for money. So, in an which had the vision to create the Lottery, to revers e era without copyright, did Mozart, who died broke . a devastating £5m cut in revenue fiords, Lotter y money being restricted to capital needs . Together We were much more successful in our two othe r with the squeeze on local government, our partne r aims: preparing for and distributing Lottery mone y in the distribution of tax money, this created severe (nearly £1 billion was awarded in the first three years ) difficulties for the arts in England . We refused to and, given the large sums available for nevv o r waver on our Royal Charter commitment (criticise d refurbished buildings all over the country, widenin g sometimes as "political correctness") to inner title s the Council to include all ten Chairmen of the and in the field of education . Regional Arts Boards . A Council of our size, and with our burdens, is no longer needed now that th e As Simon Rattle and Tcd Hughes constantly remin d legislative handcuffs between revenue and capital , us, learning music and learning great English by buildings and people are, thank goodness, bein g heart are the key to that humane education whic h removed. The Lottery is an organism, not a enables people of all backgrounds to grow i n monument . Our size was imperative at a time when confidence, communicate well and realisc thei r Lottery projects could be seen as being imposed by potential in very different fields . Education is also a few people in London, rather than bid for b y vital in creating the artists and audiences (and, o f communities large and small throughout England . course, the revenues) of the future . Although i n respect of dance and drama students we made The regions have done well . London still needs significant progress, the exemplary arts companie s attention . Whether as a world city which attracts we find each year are badly undernourished and fee l most of our visitors and most of our inward undervalued . I hope relief is in sight . I do not myself investment, or, in many areas, as a deprived region , believe that it is the business of the Arts Council t o its funding is beginning to look anorexic in bot h place great companies in jeopardy. Closing them is, i n capital and revenue terms . Berlin and Paris must any case, exceptionally expensive . I remain confiden t be licking their chops as they prepare to compet e their future will be secure . 0 with London both culturally and economically. 0

Britain boxes above her weight in the arts. The new she continues to dO so . Government and the new Arts Council must see

The visionary achievement of the National Lottery Over the next few years NcNvcastlc and Gateshead , cannot conceal a bitter truth. Even in lean time s Manchester and Salford, Liverpool and Sheffield , the arts give pleasure and create employment . Our Birmingham and Wolverhampton - to name only funded organisations badly need stability over thre e our biggest conurbations - will be transformed i n years in order to plan and manage their affairs better. a way not seen since the confident years of Victoria n This applies, too, to the building programme . In real expansion . Towns and villages have done very well, terms from 1993, our budget - without any increase s as our awards map shows (page 85) . We and other whatsoever - should stand at .S219m . It currently distributing bodies have been building a new Britai n stands at £184 .6m. As I said in Parliament last indeed. December, the arts were undergoing the wors t revenue crisis of my adult lifetime and doing so a t Under the previous administration, I noted here that a time when the public believed the Lottery had, if expanding the plant while the businesses were failin g anything, overindulged them . The revenue funds made me feel as if I had strayed into a Mad Hatter's were derisory: 0.059% of public spending in England . tea party. Lottery feast and revenue famine conducted I do not foresee a run on sterling should the fiend s their loony, allegoric dance. With considerabl e be restored, a very different proposition from "asking ingenuity we engineered the Arts for Everyon e for more" and one consistent with the all-part y programme to restore a little sanity in the short-term . philosophy that Lottery money should not replac e Three cheers for the legislative changes, which w e Treasury funding . ourselves called for, being introduced by Tony Blair' s administration and our Secretary of State. We shall have a reduced share of Lotter y_ money but more say in its distribution . Lord Gowrie's review

he CiuNerntncnt is right to Concentrate on th e I shsxtld like to p .t)' a personal tribute to nt .\- lilrntc r :rcatiNc industries . It must also remctttbcr that thes e Deputies, Richard Augers and David Rctd and to m constitute an c:nlog} . As Cameron Mackintos h n Sccrctaric,,-Genoa 1, Man , Allen, bctilrc slic left , acknostlcdgcd in .1 pro-ious .uutttal report, nce Oraham Do lin and their friendly and hclpful stal-f. subsidiu .l arts are a part of it and thc\ affect all th e I n„c c\cn more to the remarkable men and w(wic n others . Chris Smith will be pleased, as 1 am, that a t I %cncd ssith : tiltmc Shcrpas hciping our magnificen t lotlg last the I .<,ttcrN has made it possible filr us t o arrists scale 1lount Parnassus ltt Icss lofty term s do nwrc 1o)r I-ltcraturc . Britain boscs ahos•e her tlcight in the arts. The ne w (imcrnmcm and the lies%- Arts ('oun61 must sec Sh e Last antUmn, after a turbulent %un1111Cr, the Counci l :otltirlues to do NO . respnndcd to the ti,rthconting legislation by driitiin g to re 161-111 ilself, ']'lie 110 Council ltas been assiste d in its creation bt- the old . A smaller ('ounc 1 , o mipt+sed of indiOduals M it) carry m eig ht anltm g s ,111114% and leek 11161' adVicc, Is i luscr to kcvnes' s original t i%ion . -1'hc deparrttrc of the Regional Art s Boards' Chairmen, not that the legislation make s Icss distinoicm hcoaccn buildings and people, i1 i n Lord Gowrl e line uith the dcsnhttionar tendencies which created .1 r 1, ('~urtrril ire F.rrgla d the Art-, Council of h:ngland itself: \cs-crthclcss, th e Mal 1998 ( -Unn :il's 10PIg-ter111 011 CritenC%S still depends Orl Tre .ISUrk• recognition ofthe part pla\Cd b\- the arts i n one )1 the country '% three n- to arr biggclt industries . All of us reco~ 11111 the nlor .il arid spiritual inlpiratiort thcV deli\rr .1111 the ValliAble, a1 Well IS soluhlc , opposition thcc prncillc . 1=.1cr1 gimcl \tkh to Gcrn Robinutu and Pctcr Hewitt, Nsirh u}1om 1 1cry muc h cnp,ycd 1r,irking llhcn he %1as at Northcrn Arts . 8

Summary of income 1998

Summary of income for organisations regularly funded b y the Arts Council of England and Regional Arts Boards

199 8 LOWS Combined Arts

Earned incom e 20,607 ...... ACE/RAB subsidy 15,309 ...... Local Authority/other subsid y 7,266 ...... Contributed incom e 2,955 ...... Total subsidy/Income 46,13 7

Dance

Earned income 17,009 ...... ACE/RAB subsidy 28,57 0 __ Local Authority/other subsid y 2,53 7 ...... Contributed income 3,615 Total subsidy/Income 51,73 0

Drama and Mime

Earned income 64,76 3 _ __ . ACE/RAB subsid y 42,37 6 ...... Local Authority/other subsidy 15,17 5 ...... Contributed income 7,32 7 ...... Total subsidy/income 129,64 0

Literatur e

Earned income 2,50 4 ...... ACE/RAB subsid y 75 7 ...... Local Authority/other subsidy 18 6 ...... Contributed income 53 4 Total subsidy/Income 3,98 1

62,616

46,76 1 6,38 0 ...... 9,88 0 ...... 125,63 7

Visual Arts and Photograph y Earned income 10,92 4 -_ _ ACE/RAB subsidy 10,53 1 ...... Local Authority/other subsidy 5,03 4 ...... Contributed incom e 1,98 1 ...... Total subsidy/Income 28,470

THESE are initial findings from the Annual Survey of This information is provided by organisation s Regularly Funded Organisations 1997/98 ; the fitll regularly funded through grant-in-aid by the Arts report will be available in October . Council and Regional Arts Boards .

Contributed income 6% Contributed income 13%

LA/other subsidy 5% \, _ LA/othe r subsidy 16% Earned income 45% Earne d ACE/RA$ income 63 % subsidy 19% ACE/RAB subsidy 33%

Dance Musi c

Contributed income TX Contributed income 8% A/other subsidy 5% \ LA/other subsidy 5% \

Earne d ome 33% Earned income 50%

ACE/RA E subsidy 3' ACE/RA B subsidy 55%

Drama and Mime Visual Arts and Photograph y

Contributed income 5 % Contributed income 7 %

A/other subsidy 12% 1 I LA/ot h subsidy Earned Earned income 38% income 50%

ACE/ F subsidy 10 AGt/KAtS subsidy 37%

Percentage of adults who attend selected arts activities 1990 to 199 7

Percentage of adults who attend 1997 1993

Plays 24.1 23.4 Opera 6.5 6.3 Ballet 6.5 6. 1 Contemporary dance 4.3 3.3 Classical music 12.3 11 . 9 Jazz 6.2 5.7 Art galleries/art exhibitions 22.3 20.4

THE NUMBER of adults in England who attend *This survey is conducted annually by BMRB arts events has increased over the 11 years sinc e International and has a representative sample of information first became available from the Targe t around 25,000 adults in England, Scotland an d Group Index* . There have been increases for al l Wales. The sample for England in 1997 was 21,217. artforms, and particularly for opera, ballet and ar t Respondents are asked whether they attend particula r galleries/art exhibitions . types of arts event "these days".

The upward trend in these figures was halted in * *Figures for 1993 have been shown simply for th e 1993, but since then there has been a recovery . In purpose of comparison. 1997, the most recent year for which information i s at present available, the percentage of adults who attend each artform was higher than in 1992/93 .

Votes : ***The figures for jazz do not necessarily reflect a decreas e between 1991 and 1992, because the addition of pop/roc k to the Target Group Index in the 1992 survey may have influenced the jazz figures from then . In earlier years peopl e may have classified as `jazz' events which, if given a choic e between `jazz' and `pop/rock', they might have instea d classified as `pop/rock' .

The years refer to the 12 months up to the 31 March of tha t year in each case .

10 million Plays 'I

9,t) mdlinn attend 24.1%of.idu is

Art galleries / art exhibition s

22 _Y4. of .I,]ki l n

Classical musi c

4 .9 million,w, n d 12 .3% of adult %

2.6 million aucnd 63'iI of adults

Jazz . • -

23 mIilurn altcll d 6 .2% Ill athilth

Oper a

2 .6 iT111hU11 .1C'[t ll+ l 6,x74. of adults

" See special note (opposae) on Jaw figures after 1991 .

The years reler to. ". 12 months up to the 31 March of that year in each case, z

Source, , Target Group Index. a .44

The Arts Council of Englan d per capita spending by regio n

Grant-in-aid 1998 Grants Grants Grants Grants per capita per capita per capita Regio n in L000 1998 199 7 1996

Eastern 8,236 1.40 1 .42 1 .41 East Midland s 7,015 2 .05 2 .00 2 .2 5 London 27,393 3 .91 4 .04 4 .01

Northern 9,731 3 .14 2 .89 3.20 North Nes t 16,427 2 .53 2.4 4 2 .42

Souther n 10,874 2 .30 2.1 7 2 .29 South East 5,050 1 .24 1 .2 8 1 .3 1 South Wes t 8,712 2 .24 2 .30 2.3 7 West Midlands 10,476 1 .97 1 .90 1 .95 Yorkshire & Humberside 12,755 2 .54 2.55 2 .70 116,669 2 .39 2.37 2.43 National companies 64,94 3 1 .3 3 1 .33 1 .34 181,613 3 .71 3.71 3.77

THE GRANT-IN-AID TABLE (above) shows the tota l THE LOTTERY TABLE (below) shows awards from spending by the Arts Council throughout Englan d March 1995 to March 1998 . This includes capita l within each of the ten areas covered by the Regiona l awards, the film programme (excluding fil m Arts Boards . The total value of grant-in-aid awarde d franchises), Arts for Everyone, funding for danc e during the year was £181 .6m of which .£64.9m (36%) and drama students and the pilot stabilisation was awarded to the following national companies : the programme . Totals given are for awards, rather tha n Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Opera House , hard commitments, made in these three years . English National Opera, Royal National Theatre an d the South Bank Board . The expenditure to these The `national' category includes capital project s national companies is not included in the regional per which provide a unique service, tour widely o r capita spend analysis and is shown separately in the promote their work across the country . table. The regional total of £116 .6m includes £58 m which was offered through the Regional Arts Board s and £58.6m spent directly by the Arts Council i n those regions.

Lottery awards 1995-1998 Lotterv award s 1995-1998 £s awarde d Region in L000 per capit a

Eastern 34,216 5 .8 3 East Midlands 18,293 5 .34 London 264,157 37 .70 Northern 78,882 25.48 North West 50,596 7.79 Southern 65,176 13.80 South East 23,064 5.68 South West 38,253 9.83 West Aicilands 75,507 14.23 Yorkshire & Humberside 58,880 11.71 National 314,459 6.43 Total and average per capita across the country 1,021,483 20.89

Note : The figures in the table above exclude three film franchises worth £95 .67m over six years from May 1997 .

Education for the 4-19 age grou p

Education - number of sessions carried out In 1997/98 with grant-in-aid fundin g

EA R EMAB LAB NAB NWAB SAB SEAR SWAB WMAB MAR ACE Total Combined Arts 71 9 378 842 574 1,440 1,88 2 820 1,085 2,142 863 147 10,892 ...... Dance 99 9 514 70 4,800 1,156 460 27 558 83 2 643 2,247 12,306 ...... Drama and Mime 76 2 1,146 1,932 - 2,506 805 1,043 1,034 1,18 5 1,778 2,264 14,45 5 ...... Music 55 8 189 5 1 164 154 100 105 575 - 246 3,603 5,74 5 ...... Literatur e - - 19 1 - 682 - - 6 - 6 3 888 ...... Visual Arts and Photography 329 1,051 450 468 92 - 108 532 218 593 1,022 4,863 ...... 3,367 3,278 3,536 6,006 6,030 3,247 2,103 3,790 4,377 4,129 9,286 49,149

IN 1995/96 the Arts Council and the Regional Art s IN 1997/98 175 Lottery capital awards totallin g Boards introduced the first indicator for educatio n £89,464,546 were made to projects where children work and covers work for the 4-19 age group i n and young people are the primary beneficiaries . formal education . Further indicators are to be developed. Consideration of how projects will enabl e organisations to improve their education work withi n The tables show, by region and by artform, th e the -,vider community is a key criterion for all Lotter y number of sessions and the number of artist s capital applications . involved in education work in 1997/98, made available by the arts funding system . The Arts for Everyone scheme was set up i n November 1996 to distribute Lottery grants for a The information is provided by organisation s wide range of arts activity and projects . In 1997/98 , regularly funded through grant-in-aid by the Arts 56 grants totalling £878,613 were awarde d Council and Regional Arts Boards, and does no t specifically for work with young people of school age . include education work supported by individual projects, development funding or Lotter} , funding.

Education - number of artists Involved in 1997/9 8

EA R EMAB LAB NAB NINIAB SAB SEAR SWAB WMAB YHAB ACE Total Combined Arts 6 3 84 57 188 97 11 8 214 193 387 94 67 1,562 ...... Dance 7 3 7 6 25 5 0 53 - 1 1 82 42 39 762 1,213 ...... 14 Drama and Mime 4 1 88 537 - 126 38 14 0 177 74 160 599 1,980 ...... 15 Music 46 5 42 120 127 22 126 4 6 10 - 28 2,499 3,485 ...... Literature - - 51 - 43 - - 1 - - 38 133 a ...... a Visual Arts and tt Photography 3 7 395 63 38 10 - 26 84 38 35 747 1,473 _ ...... x 679 685 853 403 351 282 437 547 541 356 4,712 9,846 m 0

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Grant-in-aid by artform Regularly funded Project Total organisations grants grants LOOOs COOOS LOWS Combined Arts 14,752 1,805 16,55 7 Cross-disciplinary initiatives - 1,387 1,38 7 Dance 22,306 856 23,162 Drama and A4inre 25,510 1,619 27,129 Education and Training 154 577 731

Literature 757 670 1,42 7 MUSic 42,448 1,096 43,544 !'oaring 1,182 3,394 4,576 Visual Arts and Photography 3,237 1,924 5,161 110,346 13,328 123,674

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;Mum 1- he deparrment co-programmed a major contircnc e in London with Artec and the ('nuncil of Europe . Its ritle - 7be Artist, 771e C'rrrzen and the Entr•eprene•rrr- reflccred a shared airs of placing ne%%- medi a dcx•rlopaliCntS within social met CCanlc,tllic ConrCXIS . COMBINED ARTS 1'hc combined arts are expcricrwing a period of tinprccedCnted growt h With FAC- I' and the ICA, the departmen t triggered b+ , rile prot0mid impact of new rechnolo p collaborated +xiih hurope's largest s(fiwarc compxil , which is inspiring many artists to uork across th e Cap C;emini, to launch the Imaginaria Priic tier ariforms . digital arts. 'I"lic WA tlso celebrated its - 0th l.;rthdat' with the de%elopmcm 411 - A new 111-house mcdia centr e Among its litnded organisations and in its strategi c supported by another software giant, Su n partnerships xx•ith disparate agencies, there is a M icrosk , stems . widespread belief that the d1orts of the Combiuc d Arts Department to filster the `spaces between ' have Hull -Finis Rased :arts - a pilot n.monal C"ombincd tinalh• conic to fruition . Arts I)e\clopmcm Agency - is currcntl}• workin g with partners it) create a media centre in the cih'. Participation, celchration, file carrilvalcsque .. . f o prohic the growing trend towards media centres , Chose qualities were rewarded with A4E grants t o the dcpartment has initiated a research studs', Apia Arts in Nottingham for its high-prol'ile Mcla , tare• gent Prgcrties, Icading to a publication and and io Zap Arts !or its natituml tiircet Arts I cstival . confercnic during 1998/99 . i llt• import.mcc of invoking pCople m teehixoiog v based cxpcnnimul initiatives w•as acknowledged The traditional and contemporary also came to acthc. r . 1 . with grains to I-A( 9 in I:is'crpcml and the I .ovelwic s in new' ways throughout the year : for example, wit h hcsr ;+ .ll tit tihcfTicld . "l"lu ground" breaking wor k I,;+crpool's Rluecoat :iris ('ciltrc, I .t)lldr~n's .Stun k o(Artangel will dev6q, 1iu"thcr t6llmviug a weil- flank Centrc Co-ulnlnlissioned Arid lb-ass, Ceamring dewrved A4F };rani . 0 file William% Fairev Brass Band . v

"1 he etcparmicnt rcaclicci new audiences Ill numerou s Marshall Mc1 "trhan often quowd IVyn sham Ixwis 's other ways . 1,t'pan diuYl Per tun'"c - a collaboration that artlq ,. arc those " most ill tune with the with rile Film, Video and liroadcastmi 1)cpartmcn t future"- Tlic dcparunem's Critical l )ia1gj?ue_f2 wries, and BU- 2 - brought pertormance art ul televisio n launched in April 1998, asks -Wicrc does art stop? " screens . A ncw' nanonai carni+at +xrb sire - a key qucstion for the whole arts funding system a s thttp:;,/wxru-Carnivalnct .org.ttk} presents U K it enter. a phase of major transition . carimal ro world audiences. 77je l'ttrrishiitrt Hisnwy a/'Prr(irr»uz.uce Art scrics built unetCl-Standing o f innovatnt: practices that fall bctwcm ard'ori i hotindarics .

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The Dance Dcparmtcnt actively looks t6r ne+v uavs to snake the most of the fonds it has at its disposal . bast year, it I :tttnched the Jcrwood .awards li,r Young; Chtlrcographer's, in collaboration with The )er+voo d I"ollndatrorl . 1 hrongh p his c\cmplar\' initiative , private and }lttbht: sector partners join tortes to support the work of ralented young da1lcet's .11 a critical stage in their careers . The scheme• has giyc n its first winners, - ]acl I'Icxcr and I-1011i C)guikc - an invaluable oppomlllir} to e\phN•c and c\pcrintCll t DANCE Il,c cnunn-v 's independent an d %vich ncN ideas in neNv colltcxts, snider the guidanc e ontrtnporary dancers are attracting; gro+vnlg; of experienced dance advisers 1)ancc Unibi-da . autlicrlecs to a diversin' of vcmres - ti'onl the Rov :tl - Mbcrt I Lill to hospital n'ard,, fi- otll football st'aditini s With regard to rile Lottcr'v capital scheme, Dorse t t„ school halls and living rooms . Over .50,000 11 ople Dance Yoram received t'37,000 for computcr many ne+t to ballet - saw English National Ballet' s etjuipnterlt to tmproye comnltlnKatton and co - -Swan Lakrai the Royal .-Albert Hall . Vcnues in tal e ordination t,f its activities . The C ;holmondclev, asc.i tiering I,oadcd and 1)ancc Umbrella li's[tvak wer e 1 £61),000 award to buy cyuipnlctlt that Will enhance S5'14, full, At Ortord Castle in Sufli,lk, 40 HND the cjttalin. of rile company's production and %ludcnts joined V- I'ol I)ancc Company tt, create pttblicin . Scvcral ttlilcstonc• capital projects - th e ('asth- Blanca, a site -specific promenade lierfiwmanc c Northern ticllrrol for C'onrcmporarv 1)ancc, Yorkshir c "1751- le-r .v Rr .cr FI-icud, C;rcen C'andle's new ,h(i+ v Dance ( :cnrrc, Derb\- 1)ancc C'cntre among them - tier three- to sevcn-year-olds and Union Danc e have note retched completion . At grassroots level , Conyanv ', I)JInce 7i-k Mirr•irm•s toured nationali v nyo rounds of A-i1•: !•.\press axvards delivered ove r to critical acclaim and Public appreciation . Tc•levi,cd .0 .,3tinl to .;?b ciancc organis,rriom, 'three round s dance• scored intprc•ssivc rating, : over 4.7m yic%%crs of the main A41 : prot;r:unntc delivered o+cr L3 .,Ktn ,aw BB( '?', sunnier dance series; 6.6m +vatchc d .which supported priorities such as dance an d I)axrr F'ur 7hr C'ameva !-tint, tiaturing join t disabilirv, African and Caribbean dance, South Asia n omintissions from 1113C2 and the Arts ('otlncil . 0 ciancc, and chorcog;rrphic rescarc h. 0

Main UK dance artists arc ,ought-aficr +yorld+yidc , Iric! Dance 'rltcatrc received an ME ascard r o and plav a vital role in positioning British dance a s establish a diploma course in ?tlrican and Caribbea n an international dance leader. \e+v York 's 1)ancinp dance. This uniyuc initiative will create a pool o f in r1,r Isles .sparked a UK ciancc invasion by th e well trained, high1v skilled African and Caribbean Siollhan Davies I)ance Company, Ricochet, Wend y dancers; provide accredited training; in both practica l I lontittm, Russell Maliphant and lonathan liurro%v s skills and theory, so enhancing; students' enlplovnlen t DVS untred horrid to Please and blrrr' Aehillr. r to prospects ; hig;hlipltt Britain's rich .- fficanj(aribbca n audiences as lar afield as the I tSA and Finland . etllturll heritage ; and provide a socio-cultural an d Ranlbcrt Danct• Cornpim visited Hungary , historical context for the development of I u\ctnbourg, and Germany. In \e%%,castle, 12 0 comcmporary African ; `C:aribbean dance forms . international promoters attended British 1)an r : Edition Q8, the ,ho"casc for British dance artists .

~~. Lett : V-Tol, Suffolk Dance and University College Suffolk joined creative forces at Orford Castle I n Suffolk to create the promenade perto+mance Castle Blanca, a piece of site-specific work featuring highl y physical dance, musk and words . JA The fourweek project, which attracted widespread local interest. gave HIND students an insight into y me life of a professional danc e +? ,~ co riarw working collaborativel y o with V Tol, the students played an n,trimental role in shaping the flrli]I work . Photo : Andrew Lang . i

} r Dce - ft's a boy thin g -49 rrh ruarv . Lt+ .rl5 r . 1 RJC Dance '~' . • , r rc* , A4E-funded 'toung Me n 4 icked off with a G __ •1i~rF.tif ;up5 ~ ; .l ; :IV ;n~ groups o f to 20-year-old dancers at regional t:ntres in Leeds . London„ Swindon , _., Canterbury/ Broadstairs and Gloucester. London dancing team, from Brixton- i r tdance, brought the launch to h !tendon with an exhilarating PBC's Lottery Live, and r ' •n ance at London" s

Excellence brings Its own award s The djsnce sector's achievements were recogrnised in a number of important award=. drenng 1997/98 :

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Above top : C hrj5tnne Devaney an d +lit~ti ; in V-Tol Dance Company's tion of ... Rbthrng but th e rrr., . . Photo : K;Rth Patt ;son ,

Above and opposite, far left: Stephen Petronio in Larerg+ne • performed during Bence UmbMtla' s autumn tour. Photos : far atriz *hiller.

"A healthy theatre must reflect the 1 cultural diversity of Its society" ,e In March, the Dran,a and Literature dep it tmen#s cahosfed The Invisible A A + ~ Voice . a conference at London' s Battersea Arts Centre focusin g on issues facing Asian, Caribbea n and African dramatists . Delegate s identified a number of priorities , -~C 4 i notably the need to improve communication with Black and Asia n artists about funding opportunities . This work is already underway through programmes such as the Regional Black Theatre Initiative . supported by the department .

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.Xiairltaining the achicyrnunts nf - 199,7198 wsill dcpend on finding ncww ways of addressing the nccki .s DRAMA It ricnlorable year . Cirowying audiences of the people behind them : produk:crs, dircctors , )mw d kh cct-m,, pcrliormcrs and wyriiers - old an d technicians, pcrtirrnlcrs as wycll as wyritcrs, Last year,

II rNr III , . ~ilcbratloll of the iurlntrw_-'s thcairtuta l starldstill filnding, exacerbated sorlaclitlics 11% . loca l IICIiIagc, . atttl»aril-, cuts and sonic untiorescen problems - such as dl(: dist:overw• of asbcstos at Leicester Haymarket - Hic accent wyas (oil Illno%'atiotl . At the Roc.11 Nv itiona l plllrlged several theatres into crisis . With 1997'/98 l hc'atre, Richard Jivrc concluded a dccatic o f hnanccs gencrllly in a fragile state, the departntcn t stlslMned suc'ccss with prod ut:ilo , of ncww- wvork fro m and its diems wcelcomcd news% ofthc close r I)ayid Marc and Tom Stoppard . ]n \cwyc.utlc-undcr - imcgratton berm-ccn I rcastlry and Lottcry fllr)ds 311 d I .ymc, Pcic•r C'hccscrimn retired after 3S prolific ycar s Ilac increased funding, for the arts anntottnccd by th e as artistic dlrccior of the towwn ' S Ncwy Vit: theatre' . 0 I)cpartment filr (vulture, Media and Sport in JltI%. 0

Nc'w talent matchcd the achievements of establishe d Adyocaq remained a kcy priority. The Arts Counci l rtatncx . Ayub Khan-I)in %won the John Whitin g wigurcouQy argued for a Gong-tcrlil, decisive fundin g A%%ard hir Fast is East - a collaboration bemycc n polio• to prc•scse lJae country's SUT'Lis as an T.1111as11a -I'Ftcaire Company, the Birminglum Re p itltcroatiomil centre of drama ewdicncc . anti the ROY .11 Court, London . In August, C otlor McPherson collected the Mcycr Nhlrww'orth Awar d -1"11e Lottcry based A4F: iniiiati%c enabled th e li or- 'Ibis Lim 1 } ,ec Bolver. department to support new work and wwidcn acces s in parts of the counts' that tothrr tiulding scheme s It wyas a w-car• of rediscoycrw• . -Theatre tic Conlplicit c don't reach . and the Royal Court entranced attdicnccs wvirla thei r stunning ycrsiorl r,f Ioncscla's 7br Cbair,. -T'hc Roya l Northern Stage in \cwyc .astle used its A41= awward t o 511akcspe:lrc ComPany st}g0i M .11- 611 011111)", newt' develop ncww audiences through commissions an d translation of Hobr'rto Zm-co, wyllllc Pctcr Broo k residencies . I .ondon's 'hricyclc Theatre lathe he d presented his clutch heralded production trf Ob le's scllcrtlcs to attract 110y audiences. Awards. to POP-Up , br•amv juurr. Musical theatre enjoyed a vintage year. gill -1-hcairc and Pegasus Company benefited young The Cute rcvived Lr'ri71CC atzrd Lrrrrr, ww•Ililc 1 .e`ICC%tc r people ; Common Playcrs and Reckless Siccpcr s Haymarket maintained its strong reputation fo r extended their reach into rural areas; x0ifle awards. to musical theatre wyith an accomplished productio n Skcgn"ti . Players and `cn- Purspcctiw-cs ww•cnt towwards o1 Into the Woods. wvidcning amateur inVolvcmcnt . The Covcnir i Theatre \emork used A4E monew tur esiahlish a consortium bringing u,s;cthrr the Belgrade Theatr e and scwen small scale touring companies based i n the city. Awcards to Strathcona and Mind thc . . .Gap cna bled these companies to address the theatrica l aspirations ot' disaWd people .

Far left: Sopnie Gilby stars in the Strathcona Theatre Company' s piocluction of An Error of Judgement. Photo : HL ;go &endinning.

Left : Biyony Pritchard in Don Quixote. directed by Gavin Stride and adapted by Mary Elliot Nelson for the New Perspectives Theatre Company . Mansfield. Photo: Chris Goddard .

Fr ~N~ a a 61 11mo k- .4 ]Iwo EDUCATION AND TRAINING - t'lsc 1 LI LI-1 lull .1111 1 I1 . M111~~ 1)Ch.lrllili III j lhlt ti .111 .iiti%C h.irt ill nuriming, dircclnlg and fulfilling the artistic potentia l it ivcrv child, }uullg pcrson and adult in th e With This in Inind . the LIL'IMl Ittlcllt It ~Ilrrcnlly alusilrr. Its work is g;ulded he the landmark polic y reticsigninu and cstCI1LJ l It . IWk:lI ct slte p.tg;cs +a t dnrtnnent, hrrrrlrrrrt 77r•+rtRrTlJ Lr•rrr•urrrrf. 1'uhGshcti i n hit} //avru .artac >unCiLor.L uk~. ilmLim-, ihcin mor e

)LIk' 1997, this pcllicv is underpinned by two kc} ' dvimmic and user-fricndk- I hcsi p-1 cs provide last , objectives : yuahtt• arts in ctiucasiun ; tluailtc learning; t•lhcietlt acccss to Information 1111 I titn l' ~ t"Inging; from and training opportunitics within the iris . arts education research to cdocailim and training; opportunities across 111 age ranges . •l,o turn objectives into rcility, the deparnnen t CLIIIHMICS to develop long-term strategics designed to : As xeli as raising its ]ntcrnct profile, the drp .lrttncn t

• pronurte cxccllcnce within arts education ant i is ilrolved in a raft cif other icchnologv-base d t r•atlllllg initiatives, For exampic, it has provided ME bindin g • --rncrate research into arts education practic e to enable several arts organisations to create nrv+ . l}Iport and cxtcrtd arts education and trainin g digital technologies and enhance existing;

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FA 1,1cational rescarch is vital it, the department 's 'I'hc .art. C'ouncil's Apprenticeship Scheme i s work . In partnership with The Regional .Arts Roards , designed to give dis ;lhled people greater acietis t o the Lleparmicin oversees the FALh:AIL011 Rcscarc h training and CIn111oY111CIlt ill the arts . In 1997/98 , anti 1)eVelopntcnt Initiative - or LKI)l - drsrgnr d Lin Wornast ticcarne the 16th trainee ni iviin til e to help arts org anisatitrns research and row%% thei r sclicnlc. At the Start of the vear, Phil Samphire - th e j arts education pr .ieticc, Mnd dC%t:loj n :lvs to full\ . schclric's tcnih memhcr - tirli-111Cli his Ii.lining, vvhil c imcg;ratc that practice into their core vcirrk . A paralle l Scven tilrnter apprentrccs Lontinucli Io plllXlle careers schcnu, the arts Education Agcncic , in the arts sector. tam, like Isobel Remolds it th e

Initiative t .AFAIII I helps arts organisation s Belgrade -Theatre, ('owcntr}, are still with th e sticngihcn their rule as brokers betwecn profi saional organisation where tho- began their careers . artists and education prov'ILICI's .

5igrlifiC .IMIV, the department I1as also launched a 110v Another priority is opening tic\% channels o f positive action scheme, the hcllowsllip Prog;ranlnlc , comintlnlcation with arts practitioner% and the arts vv'hlih tit crs Rlark and Asian arts aditlrlrisirMin %, ,1 world in general . 1- he department's remit embraces fast trick into senior nlanag;cnlent . I'hc first group .ill forms ot' cdtication and training; from protcssional o1 arts ('otlncil Fcllk_nvs reccntlN joined a range trf ttI amateur, and it is conlnuticd to offering, peopl e arts or anisatinns nationwide f()r l8 inimills of inntnativc uavs it) access the inlilrniiticin, advice an d intensive n1ar1.1gCtilent Tralnllig. Support they require to dcvclop their ircativc abilit y and crijo Agent of the arts

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Workers of the world unite to write Founded in 1976 by communit y writers in London and Liverpool, th e W Federation of Worker Writers and am& Community Publishers (FWWCP) is now an international organisation, wit h groups from Manchester to Mauritius . Cardiff to Canada . Members span th e spectrum from professionals to first timers and adult learners . Among the community publishers on its members' list is QueenSpark Books in Brighton , which has published autobiographie s of around 100 local people as well as major oral histories of the divers e local communities .

The FWWCP is part-funded by the Literature Department . Accordin g to co-ordinator Tim Diggles, the organisation is seeking new ways t o fund established writers to work wit h .coups on a long-term basis . "The writer's role would be one of mentorin g jnd support, working over several .,cars to nurture and sustain ou r rembers' work . " LITERATURE In a career as solitary as writing, the needs of the individual mint Cofric first . -1-his begs the .luestion, that lcscl of income does a "-ritcr aced t o 1.ttrs INC' `As much as am nnc else ,' was at popular .,ic" ksprc,iwd by over 40 contemporarx "ricers . "Close rcplics t') this cmomt: tlucstion appeared in a hoo k -I-he department orcanised and funded Rcadi p~q compiled jointly during tic rear by no\clist Alain do jnr Lift - a major confcrcncc held in Stratford-upon - llotton, the bookshop chain ~~',ttrrstonr 's, and th e Avon examining the development of literature in lets ('ounciL Entitled Naar rind) der run rhink a public libraries, a cornerstone of the department' s

nvrter urrds to lil'r nn?, 1110 publication Stimulated pt,liC\ . One anion point from the corilCrence was th e "idcspread debate about the "acs in wilich "riting i s need to Create a national reading decelnpmcnt agencN % funded. As the book's forcword notes: "Events pas t Work has begun on this and the Reading Partnershi p ;onspired to make this publication unusual)• timcl\'. "ill tcaturc prominentiv in tht• coming year. Among 1 it Arts Council itself is looking hard at ho" it caller subjects diWLlsscd \cas the National Year o f di1-lf•Ibntcs the monCV it Itas in its gilt ." In the book 's Reading. Starting in 1998, this will tcaturc a number atierl~urd, the L.itcrature Department's director, (,'ar \ of :~rts (:ounCil-supported initiatives, including a \l, krone, called cur an cud to tilt nerd fir 'hcautihd l pfo gramrtle of cdttCationai work in schools. begging letters' from indkiduals at the heart of th e n,iticn's cultural litc . An emphasis on cngaging ~nune pcnplr was a "'ClComc feature ofmanv applications io ncc A4L:

Lo tins end, file dep,1rt1Ix•1It 11,11. Continued to fior d scheme . Brighton-based Dc 'Lungucs, fin- exanlplr , .t ralliZC of ittitiativcs to support 1)1-4 sional writers is at the torehont of liar liicraturc . With a .C.32,80 0 through direct financial assi1.tance and through th e A4F a"ard, it launched Brrakout, a project aimed a t provision of emplovmcnt opportunities. Work bega n encouraging young people to "rite and pci-fornt their nn a nlAlor crmferencc at the f_'nkcrcit%• of'Wirt[ick o" it work. entitled the Beds (1' 11'riters. T'lac findings of thi s conlcrcnce will help shape polio in this vital area . 1-11c. Arxotl Foundation, Of iourSC, WCICOntea student s ()1 an ccfualh, pragmatic note, r.\o nnc-dac course s cif,ell ages . Dutint ; the year, it recckcd a i .otterr in London and I_ccds guided small presses throug h aIxard ofi400,000 rtiwards the ptircflase of its fourth the intricacies of publishing copyright and contracts . residential writers ' centre . Originally :Alcd 'I'hc Hurst , In a parallel initiati\C, the department began tr l the ccntrc• in Shropshire was home to play" tight Joh n deN.CIop a piubliC liability insur'.111CC sChcnic ti,r \rritcrs, Osborne during the last 12 vicars ofhis lilt. It will now "11ich will be available• ii-riin .Scpmcnlhcr 1998 . v he known as The Tulin Osbonlc ('cmrc . 0

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In its third \-car, Write Our Land continued to brea k With a 0450.000 .14E grant, the Pcxtry Society 110% ground. A collaboration with BBC ikadio Nort h launched 1'art)-v Places, a mo-rear progranttnc o f cnci tie Regional Arts Boards, the scheme gave 25 residencies and proicas in a aide cross-action o f Titers the chance to experintcnt "itlt writing fo r venues - from rhos to schools, parks to libraries . l-tic radio. MW Itaclio 4 broadcast work by scvcratl Writ e Poetry Society's director Ckris Mcadc sums up ti c (hit Laud participants, past and present . 1nhc y schcntc's aim : "['1'0~ ihattge iltc nation 's pcrccprio n mdudcd Polttnle Clayton, lames C ;roxtidcn, Cirallanl of poctry from somcThing . . .highbrow and intangibl e Mtwt, F.licn I'hctlacan, Ciracntc Rigby and Esthe r to an arttiirttl Char really adds it) our quality' of life." SCISLicn.

Writers' Award winners 1997/199 8 Fiction. Tobias Hill, Leigh Kennedy, In January, Midges selected !ht, Aricirea Levy, Nicholas Wollaston latest winners of the Arts Count r s writers Awards, which are designt,ti Poetry, Jane Duran, Vicki Feaver, to buy ttme for authors embarked o n Rotn Robertson . Nell Rollinson , a work it progress . Secretary Of Anil Sansorn State, Chris Smith, presented . the winners ilisted right) with a cheque Biography . Cawley Angier, Katherine for E7,000 each during an award Frank . Martin St,innar d ceremony held at the Imagination Gallery, London . 4 Literature for Young People, David Almond

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MUSIC 1 nttc'rv tun,ling has uxlsli,rnu .i th e shape .tile, Raiurc +,t [lle dcp.trlntcltl'ti :oitstitllcn :~ , rcvitaIiNing it . Iiiik. .Lith atnatcur and proti:ssiunal n m ,4: nlakcr: nanoimidc . Through the Arts tie r h.vc•rvonc progranurlc, the dcpartnient :an rum support ne%% initiatives across the spcctnlm of ITILI LC lC1iVit\ -. make rq[Lllal' :ontiCt With 111LISieiMI S Of COUrse, the dcparullcni's cun11111Mlcnt t o and pronu,rcrti hrctiously hcvond its MIC1 , ,old cnhan:ing .l uahn, acccssibility ,old intlotatiun pre attract larger, more diverse audicll :cs than cvrr dates Lottert funding b\ hall a centim . For wars, i t betilre . The scheme lus inspired rhousan .ls ul has imested in Inng-term relationships - usualh wit h applicants to make first-time contact with the Art s orchestras and opera conipanies - and these contlnLt e ('ouncil, enabling the deparuncnt to limd jai/ , to vicld spectacular dividends . Itecew highlights :(3nlnlunilti' ntttSi : and edLICAHMA illitiativcs t o inCludc Glvn(icbournt Touring Opera ' s production ,in c\icnr prceioush undre,urled Of". of T.ie .1-Inkropithu Cast ,, Opera Nul-th's StIT01c'tY Todd; ,lad the Welsh National Opera season, tcatliring li'illr NunlertMS nurstc or•t;anisalions arc still reCekirlg Brrdd and the ( (u,wintiou of Puppea ill David .Lien's rckuiveh modest grants fmw the Loncry capita l bight,v imcntive staging . Elscvvhcr•c, Nei% `tus k ,Chcine - and using there to grcai effcct . The bras, M,ll1:hCSTCr presetncd .1 week long teslllll of \Deal"l d hand nio, cnlcnt contriltics to thrive as I .ottow Yltnd s music ; the London Sinfimictta cclebr .ltcd its 0th help tit huh nevv cdluipnnent, raise pla%'irlg Standards , birthdav and continued its Towards the Millcnniu m boost morale and increase Opportunities 6.)r Voutlg progr',tmmc . Other nlcnlorable c+cats include the 111LIS Alls io rrv out nevv insu•urnents . ElscvVllcre, th e Philharnuutia's I_igcti series ('larks and Ubtuds, and department ' % orchestral, new music and jazz policie s the London Synlphom Orchestra's :1lncrican series. continue to infi,rm the distribution of Lottery grants . 1'hev have also helped to identify gaps in provisio n Sustaining the remarkable achievements of tll c and .lctinc plir,ritics So that 1kailJbIC Inoncv' is Used counu•v's music sector still tops the department' s to address verv real needs . There voll he fevvcr lark , prior•itt list . Over the next six rllonths, it will b e 1,1141, profile Lotter grants . But SuSt,lined Loucr y working closely with the Local Authorities, Regiona l illvesl lne'nt .11 grassroots lcvrl v.ill bring about a Arts Boards and musicians to make the most of ill c prot;lund, long-term transfcn•nl .nion . 0 funds al'ailablc 1r .m1 both Tre3su11- and L.,ttcrr . v

Not surprisingly, the ME scheme +.•as hraWy Standing ittmcdve o0fibdNFFaany ovcraubscribcd . It prodded a practical deinonstxatio n music org s have already graqwd [he 01'111C cnor•r1u,uS diversity of British nnrsic today, challenge of change . They include English National ,old 111c huge opportunitie% that tiirthcr grants moul d Opera, the London Symphony Orchestra, th e gcneratc . Scilirlilg the ftiturc of n1LISi : educatio n B(itirnctnnuth Orchestras an d] the Northern Sinfimia services and integrating than with the v\idc r - participants in the Lotterv'-(Untied stabilisatio n coinnnrnity remains one of the department's mos t Scheme piloted in 11)97 . (}rhos, 111 .11 Pill then, %%,hen pressing concerns .111d it Will be ILICVCluping the m the lull stabilisation progranlnlc roll', cant in the sca r thrnligh the rc :cntlr annOLUlccd YkAltll \Eusi% Trust . ttlttlrc .

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Staging successes B'UO-F SIALe Partners IS a th W L f'ar COOW r Ment from the TOUrinr:. Depattmem and Barclays PLC tha t encouiaves consortia of theatre orgafi~sations to work together t o produce and tout high quality dram a to the widest PossihiE, n ;dWll c n~lt+onwide ,

rce its launch in Barclays Partners has enable d r o,.1tictu5ns of 21 plays to tou r venues across England . 71iC5, :• prodwtions include ne w r, ti .,ls of classics, acclaime d n :, s of Shakespeare's play s riii,n5 tot

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t'urrcntty, thcre 1% a Lick both ot' cultur,►lh di\crse \%ork which tours and \\'r,rk which involves cultut% li e dl%erse communttlcs . As a result, the dCparlrnclt t \%ill targo hinds to llcip create, tour and prorttot c TOURING I Ilc I mritlt; Dcl),lrtmrnt i1 till 'I'u,hlr ' \%,ilk +.Mich will appeal ti) audictlccs ti•onl a rangc dcpartnu•nt, conlnnitcd to britipig irtiNtN an d or cultural hacks n MIlcis . Anothcr major proble m

.itldlc1wC% ti'gcthcr . It strt%cN t„ CIINl 0'k: th-It As MAI N aflccting the touring circuit i% the historic lack u t people .1% possible - frolr[ all +\alk. rat Gtr . tn)w .tl l mxcstntcnt in training. -Fo address this issue, rtt c hart+ td the c\,tmtrr - expericRCe a rich \arid\ . I department has launched Rnrsinj the Srr key - alT~ ACTI+ItIC\ . .l r\+t,-da\ - restcicllt ►al course tc,r 111anagcrs and adminktrattus in pertnrming arts who plan t o Ind Ithat's \illy 'I'nurir3g so waC[lll\' \%ClcsHllcti the dOC10171 their Rational tuurillL, . It Ilan Ast, ill :ulgunltc d !'a ."7S4 A4E M .lyd that Will heir (ardho .lyd .1 \car font; Dranla,:" Fourine: producer bursar\ , ( itirc-n% to crcarc work tier the hurllclcss h\ th e s[artln~ in ticptcnlbcr . htmiclcs, there tour it it, schools and hcINtCk acr„ti % the cuuRn% . I Icrc is isl outstanding example (&A4 I -. hilt the dcp.lrtttlCnl '. hl~IgCst c11 .111CMIC remain s

khA startlrlg .111 111111 .16 W in\ohulg pcoplr nut usu .ll k h, m Tu balance '111dicrlcc cicilland ti'r rt,p chalet \ tinided 1w the arts ['ouncil to produce alld tou r w„tIt with :l dintinishitlg supple. I'hc 1995 Rrrir w work r:lrch .ern outside Londe-nl ~,r•lrutt,•-~ralr tutrrir{rT : thc~ prnri,iurt u~'lrrcr ,+•„ri: :r: 1 .urtlnud stated that in 197 6,;2,I't) peopl e A4F. has also brought tic 'Pouring Department int o thruugiluut the Counter c\pcricnced subsidise d contact with rural tourul~t 601- nct: lirst 11111c . 'I 'llis lark-scale touring opera and ballet . 1 hrtlugh ho\ rlrtnh-nt:edt:d sector brings I\crti,rmanccs tt, pcopl c (Ifticc sales, this dirccti% encratcd 411 ,528,400 fo r with ltrilr or no access to work presented in the thc• arts cc(ncunl\ . By 2001), with new I .ottert'-iitndcd larger to%vns . Its impt,rtancc is Growing, and that i s %miles opening, this drnl,lnd \\ill Incrcai c h\ at leasr w the department is hlrltt,tll\- rcxwc N ing, this tai 7 ;'.'1. I'tlllhng nc,% \Pars to meet 111 .11 4Icllland 1, dMEMbf its work to idcrtlit\- its lleed'_ v imperat)\C v

As well as fund uI" duality pertilrming arts. C lim Smith MP. Secrctary o . w wk, 'Fouring hdplagm to prtlmotr i hat work Media and Sport acktlow'lcdgcd th~8 i

t11 local audiences. W fimitcd public tunt.iing, announced his wclccltnc and importam. ranee managers and promoters are often wary o f .f- million ti ►r the \e\\ ,Audiences Prc~rd . the IinanOal risk involved in presenting new and As well as suppor[insq touring anid addition 'ciitficult' work. So the department'% highl\ popular touring weeks, he esplaincd that : "•Chc New Venue Wvelopntcnt Fund \\ ill next rear support 3 0 Audiences Progrlnlmc k a new and exciting u y Of, \cntw• art,uncl the country in their efforts to dcrelo p helping deli%cr i,: css tor• crcrronc . It is new motley audiences file challenging, \\ork . With this support , which will be tarvctecl to help arts organis:ltions venucs will he keeper able to build new' audiences for hroadca their audiences, bring new people to th e d:utcc, nc\r music and work that is cuituralk- divcrsc . arts and encourage roun g pcopic• in parltcular t o participate ."'Thc department relishes the opportunir y to k:o-ordhiating flit: New Audicnccs Programilic• t o AchicvC [Ills ainl .

Left: Cathy Tyson and Davict Schotlei d star in The Merchant of Venice , presented on toter bs Thelma Holt L10 . and directed b\ Bill Alexander. Photo ; Wan KVncl .

Opposite page, bottom: Darryl Knoc k p13V5 Mar, 610 ;n 3 17rct!itlthc•n Of l.,i Balhemr' h5' Musk Tlwe.Tro London . Photo'. LuC txnE va), del h1 llr,

Among the artists currcntlr V%orkin t frith ric k technology, film and video is Jonathan l odgsim . His Fcelir{R My Wn .) - an Arrs ('+curled ,kid (channel - I Animate! project - %t on the Brinslt animation Award fur'The Most Cream v L'se of New Technology . A tic%%- scheme, Small Grants tier Ncx, Media, supp(irt s VISUAL ART :. altr.l:urt~ wider audiences tha n risk-taking projects such as i71i 1b'eIr ,tittrlkrr hr the er r befi +rC, .in~i :UlU ItIIICt to playa kc%' role i n three-pcrsntt collcctitc 1/0/1) . I-his grokrnd-brcaking rcgcnL:r.ttion across the country. Clearly, sustaining artist produces brouscr maps and rcinrcTfcts data o n that irrs,rncnttrm means %tinning important battle . the Internet, attracting 10,00II downloads world\%idc . rat behalf of the individual artist . The itttpact of Iollcrx capital awards has bee n lu this end, the 1 'isual Arts 1)epartnmit has joine d dramatic, transfurnting the yisuol arts landscap e lurccs t%ith artists' agencies, notably the Nationa l frith nr%% spaces, better public access and facilities . artists' Associ,itiun . Other initiatiyrs include scheme s Baltic Fluid- Mills Ill Gatcshcad is a spectacula r to prnVidr artists with better access to resourccs in ar r nett contemporary Visual arts rclttoc that %Vill rit'al s,,h owls; a mentoring pr .ogranunc to gixc professiona l Lotdon's Ha,'%yard Gallery . Birmingham 's Win Jkhicc and contacts, and Lottery funded work spaces, Gallen' re-opencd on its new site tiollo,ying a bnllian t such as Bristol's Spike Island and London's ACM E rctilrbishntent . A subtle redesign at London 's hirestation . Artists are also benefiting from the _'40n t Sci),cntinc Gallen, maximises space and light . Lux . . allocated for new 5%ork< through Lotter% capita l the ne,t centre fur artists ' film, yidcto and clccrronic projects, and Crom the A4F. proSratttnic . 0 opened in llumon Syuarc, London . v

1-m- example, she Walsall Museum and Art Gallery -111e quality s .of the built emironmenr rctn .un s will usc a 0,56,604 A41 . award to fund its e aid the tiocns of the department's incokcmenr u c Purr project, introducing %cry young Visitors an d architcctclrc . 'Illy publication of ACE Al h7teenwe - their :arcr-, to newly-commissioned contemporar y ;tlal'ine Spacc - Ruildina Opitlian coincided with the art :UrarnVhile, the muscum's ncu Loucr-y-Mulcte d first Architecture Week ill Nto,cntbcr, one ofsevera l hudding is scheduled to npcrk iii 1999 . imimalke initiatives that encourage the ptlblic's growing interest in contemporary architecture . Int,tg•«nation, a new media agency in Bristol, rc:CRCCI arc A4E grant of 74,.'22 towards a three-yea r A commitment to visual arts education underpin" tl l digital media project that will bring together artist s the department 's work . With a C3.50,000 A4F award , and Vk,ung people VVitlt arts allcl media companies the I .corldcfrl Institute's Yorrna at Al't initi .iliVC will to explore the cr -caike plotential ofjww technology. bring children and teachers together %%itlt artists am t ()n the same theme, the department is organisin g designers in Saturday classes and soother schools . \)equal 17istwi - a major intmiatioriai contcrenc c Mcamrhilc, lingagc - the National Association f-ur examining the relationship between young people CiallcrV Education -. organised another high-profil e anal nets tcchnolog~ . Gallery Week, and (airis Smith 1\1I', Secretary ol ' Statc for 01111.11-C, Media and Sport declared that its goat s lie 'at the hearr of what this Govcrllntclit i s about' . Young at Art - Me and You and Imag@nat,Lon

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Site to see Above: Me and You at the Walsall Established 20 years ago in Sheffield , Museum and Art Gallery, an A4E- Site - formerly Untitled - Gallery re- funded project that introduce s opened following a redesign funded youngsters to the very latest by a £1.3m Lottery grant. With it s visual art. enhanced facilities, Site has emerged as a key regional venue, delivering a Bwftmund : details from I/O/D' s strong programme for Photo 98, with The Web Stalker (December 1997), Arts Council funding to commissio n which is located at new work and produce exhibitions . http://www .backspace.org/iGd . New shows include Pandemonium by celebrated artist Marie-Jo Lafontaine , Below: Georgina Starr's Tuberama , featuring photographic portraits of at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham , Europe's youth (one is pictured left) between March and May 1998 . along with a sound piece created i n collaboration with Michael Fahres.

has hccll dranlatlc , The impact of Lottery capital awards '- transforming the VISUal arts landscapc with Ilew Spaces, better" public access and facilities . LOTTERY FILM 'Hie Lottery Film Department ha s .t , Ir .Tr + Ision- to cnsure that uric of Britai n' s Ilagshi p I. C.Ii+•c industries deri+cs maxini un bcncfit fi•nm l inert- revenue . In addition, the department extended the schem e '1'hc department's unlit embraces ex-m- stage o f ti,r individual fiIIIIS [o inClttdc support finr artists ' the film-making process : from development t o film and Vit{en. This supports work which will h e productintl and distribution . It aims to-) fostcr talente d exhibited in sl,aCes other than cinemas, for example - individuals at e+crv stage of their career, su},pnrtim.; art g.lllcrics . films „fc+cn• tl•pc : iron, Culling edge cxpcrinlcr,ta l ++-ork to animation, tram shorts to qualit} nlainstrean l Five Projects -offering training opponullitics m features. script writing, blot and to COSiotl produCtiotl .old animation - reccived A41•. funding . Among th e The Lottery_ Film Department ++as created followin g suCCCSSfuI applicants were London-based Blac k a rc+ncl+ of the successful pilot him production Coral _FraininL funding schcnic rtu7 by the ] .otter+ Operatit)m project from .1 company based in \ottirlgham%hirc . Dcparmicm . Clcarl, the rie department's initial The National I-Am and Television School receive d priority nas to establish itsclfas an integrated playc r a 14 .5m award towards vital upgrat{Ink ++lnrk fiunl in the film cccu,r. As part of this process, it took the Lottery capital scheme . positive steps iimards forging links with other part s 01 the industry, iuCludlllg t ending, organisations an d Io make itself fully accosible and responsnc tai th e has production companies . ++lder film Ir7dltSII. 1, the dCpartillt'tlt 5t I'C,1Tlllnlt't{ its structure ,nrnd 111,0cesscs. It produCCd .1 new pack it also IauncIIcd its FiIIll prograilltile , designed tier I .l,ttcry fronting appGCations, giving producer s to erlhanCC &i Crsinl and ChoiCC ++bile generatin g ConCkC guideline . on a,nditions, criteria and new film-making opportunities nationwide . 'Fllc aswssrtlcnt proCCdures . It also launched scvcral programnic has three funding elements : support fo r important policy initiarives, publishing a Consultatio n individual films, the film franchise schcnic and th e dneument oil proicct development, and finalising .1 Grecnlight Fund . v Ccu,sultation do CUnlcnt on cinema disnibutiun . v

'lhc franchise schcnic, in particular, is set to pla y Building, im the monlentum generated in its .1 pivotal role in the medium- to long-ter m first year, the dcpartnncnt continued to refine an d development ofthc UK film industry. It is specifically implemcnr its core strategics . Schemes within th e deStt'lled to rationalise the irtdustrr's fragmente d Film programme intend to support indi+idua ] structure by Creating a more Collrrent, stable climat e projects 1w addressing the crucial issues of projec t in ++hirh prodltcers have the financial resource s dc+clopniCnt and distribution . FwldIIlg these to plan conmicroalh- across t slate of films - fro m activities would Complement the strATegy behin d conccpuon to distribution . In May 1997, the the franthisc schcnic . department announced the suCCcsshll franchise applicants: DNA Films, -ncc Film Consortium an d Pattic, Pictures .

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:Oature film supported by the ti^~,.n' dunng the year were i~ f I,w release In 1998 : -co)g .-ich . 68hyrnother, Hideous The Land Girls. Love rs the and Metroland.

~~- Short flirn s 'h :)?+rlrient supported th e • l" ti 'iun of 14 short films : Stiletto . ~ r 4ppea ;. lrisornnia . Siang. Temencis . r The Alan tsrn held his Breath, Tht , 1 Gift. The Cull, Blur Fun , ie!. Dour;!a s 44 1 <)r1il the Flour 8.-alw . I'VdtP ;er~kih5 . of Denman .. Wi lh t' Pt.~ +++ ~i Or h ~`~~ . ' i ; 1 .. C ,tali 1LY'r7Y 1f fTl'1 ('!7+ +arf'ran d

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Today's foresight, tomorrow's stars -1-he exhibition Air! .-1 rr~ ( '111m, ii ( :ullrrtlu7: lW i Early in 1997, the Arts ('ouncil ('ollection acquire d pnr•elrascs- launched in 1990 tk, mark the art s Gillian Wcarin g 's video 611 .111'nutrs Silence. Though Council's ti0rh anmycrsary - finally reached the wil d controversial, its triumph at the 1997 Turner Priz e of its tour in Noycinber. In its place, Tile Collectio n dramatically illustrated the Nuccc%s of the Cullcction' s launched Hrad First : Portraits f -om thr• .Arts C:urrrrri l long-term purchasing strategy . ('ullcrtio>:, exploring the changing lace of modern and contemporary portraiture . Significantly, severa l For several years, the Purchasing Group has focused venues kill the itinerary added a selection of portrait s on idcntih,ing and buying major newv corks fro m Irom their tmn collections to the display . Collection Britain's most important emerging artists as carl r cascci shcnws oil tour included Printers Isar., a in their professional careers as possible . As a result , portfolio of prints by wrung artists including Damie n artist4 such as Tony ('ragg, DaEnicll Hirst, Richard Hirst and Rachel Whitcread; Patrick (-aulficld's -1hr Deacon and Gillian Wcaring - now establishe d Poerrri 11f 'Julr s Lr :li,ryrrrc; 111d Henri 111atissC's timeless international artists - have featured in the Collccrion Jazz. for sonic tine. A national asset 7,11c representation of video- and film-based artist s .Ilic Arts Council Collection was founded in 1946 , has become ever more important . During 1997/98 , the same year as the arts Council of England 's the Collection invested in notable new works fro m predecessor, the Arts Council of Grcat Britain . It is inno+ators such as Jaki Irvine Oral-, 1994), Jayn e nary the largest national loan resource of post-wa r Parker ((:rwal Aqurtritrrsi, 199,; ) and Mark British art . Wallinger (As~c3cl, 1997) . It contains over 3,000 original paintings, sculpture s Significant purchases in other media included Tracey and drawings, 1,500 artists' prints and 2,00 0 Emin's applique blanket The tiimplr• Troth; Siobha n photographs. Altogether, it represents over 1,70 0 Hapaska 's Hear•r, a menxrrable work combinin g artists including Frank Auerbach, Gillian .lyres , sculpture and sound ; and the painting; Rerti_str_r Office , Francis Bacon, Sonia Boycc, 'Fong Cragg, Richard by Patrick ('aulficld . Sustained eftorts to purchase a I7C3c0tl, Lucian Fircud, Susan Hiller, David Hockncy , recent work by Anish I(apoor, to attgnlcnt his earlie r Hcm•y Moore, BridlteT Riley and Rachel Whitcrcad . work in the ('(Alcction - 111nu Sand, Red Millet, -Fhc Collection forms an integral part cif Nationa l AMisr Flowers, 1982 - resulted in the acquisition of Pouring Exhibitions, which - like the Collection - his stainless steel sculpturc, C nritlyd, 1997- thanks is tn.tnag;cd by the Hayward Gallery oil behalf o f to substantial flrlatlcial support from ThC Hcnr y the Arts ('ouncil of England - Moore Foutld .16011 .

During the year, the Collcctnm postal pages on th e Hayward Gallery/SM' Internet site while developing: its owls site at http :~'/+w+wxw.acc.ors,.tlk. It als o published a ('D-ROM . Produced in conjunction wit h Axis and SIW, it Icatttres all purchase made between 1989 and 1995, as well as interviews with 24 artists. Sincc March, the (:ollection's work has bail ayailahl c through the Bridgenian Art Library, a move whic h widens access +yhilc gcncrating, welcome rc+•cnuc .

Left: The Simple Truth. 1995. by Tracey Emin. Photo : Stephe n White . TRACEY ERIN Above rlgttt: Site 8: Orange . I by Rose Wylie . Photo supplied the artist .

Right : Tattoo, 1998 , by Edward Lipski. Photo : Miki Flingsby. Purchases during 1997/98

Fiona Banner Trance, 1997, 21 audio rapes, total Plan tittle 20 hour s Pavel Buchler Now to Find a Way In the Dark, 1983-84, 27 drawings . lclt-tip pcn un paper, each 30 x 24 co t Angela Bulloch From the Eiffel Tower to the Risenred, 1995 . VHS video, 34 ntinutc % Patrick Caulfield Registry Office, 1997, acrylic on camas, 92 .1 x 76 .8 c m Juan Cruz Sancti Petri, 1997, tape and slide tnuallation, dimensions variable Peter Davies Striped Painting, 1997, acrylic on camas, 228 .6 x 330 2 crn Peter Ellis Blank Firing, 1997, oil on camas, 152 x 152 c m Tracey Emin The Simple Truth, 1995 . %%ool and cotton, 216 x 235 c m Tracey Emin Why I Never Became a Dancer. 1995 . VHS %icicotape, 6 minutes 40 second s Rose Finn-Kelcey Jolly God, 1997, a ool . 2110 % 3(,(I x 10 co t Noel Forster Untitled, 199491, oil on linen, 152 .5 x 213 .5 c m Richard Hamilton Portrait of Derek Jarman, 1996-97 . colour pigment transtcr print, 39 .4 x 39 .4 cm Slobh3n Hapaska Heart. 1995, roseu . . . .d, \IIIF and audit) components, 76 x 291 x 18 .5 c m Jaki Irvine Star, 1994, black and ,% hits snper 8 tilnt with sound, 3 minute s Anish Kapoor Untitled. 1997, stainless steel, 140 x 92 .6 x 100 c m

I purchased ,vith financial support from The Henry Ntlwrc Foundation ) Edward Llpskl Tattoo, 1998, Fibreglass, pig hide, drawing ink, skit dve and steel sltcct, ditncnsiom %ariahl c Alain Miller On my way to Paradise, 1997, oil nn canvas, 235 x 103 c m Joan Moore Pelican, 1993, welded steel and enaind, 22 x 19 x 12 cot tgitt of Kenneth Armitage ) Mike Nelson Taylor, 1994, nuxed media, 2510 x 336 x 456 c m Jayne Parker Crystal Aquarium, 1995 . ltcta SP video (from original 16mm film), 33 minute s Ana Prada Striped Composition No.2, 1995, %%ax, silicone glue, 192 x 39 x I c m Tim Renshaw Returning, 1994, oil on camas, 42 .5 x 183 c m Carol Rhodes City Landscape, 1997 . oil ern J!1)F, 42 .5 x 47 cn t Shanl Rhys James Stare, 1997, oil on gesso, 3() x 27 .6 cn t Andreas Ruthi Goya (toy), 1997, oil on MIA`, 30 x 40 an Helen Sear Flown No.1, 1997, l' tvp c print on DF with matt laminate, 127 .9 x 91 .4 c m Bob & Roberta Smith Although Janis Joplin . . . (idiot Board) . 1997, sign writer's painr on panel, Cour panels ,

anal lrcl 24 ;'1 x '18 71 C m Bob & Roberta Smith Make Art Not War, 1997, VI] ,, ,,deorapc . 20 minu(c s Simon Starling Kabinett ffir Zeiehnung, 1995, charcoal, paper, text, dimensions xariahlc• Mark Wallinger Angel, 1997 . 11L'Lt SP colour video, 7 minutes 30 seconds Mary Webb Spring Colour Study No .19, 1995 . oil on canvas, 1 l l .i x 111 .5 c m Catrin Webster Level Playing Fields . 1995-96, oil on lamas, 250 .1 x 109 c m Lois Williams One Room Living. 148 .5 . s,lcking, fell, %%adding, mixed media, dimensions variable Erlend Williamson Calm/Chamonix, Id .t, L .tail }, hiic photograph, 30 x 20 crn Keith Wilson Untitled (musical Instruments), 1995, tunnd objects, 304 .8 x 121 .9 x 121 .1) ern Richard Woods Renovated Carpet No .1 (Burgundy), 1997 . atom paint and I'VA on carpet, 365 .8 x 121 .9 en, Rose Wylie Girl on Liner, 1996, nil on C .utvdS, 1 :13 x 103 cot

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LOTTERY FUNDING Signilicam and N%clcomc citanjzc s With its emphasis on children and young polple, th e in the a :n Lotrcr%, tllnnek is distribmcd to the art s Arts 10r B-cn-one (ME Express) scheme has prove d are under\%JV, the result of nctis Lottery legislatio n a great success, giving financial support to man e which became lan in juh• 1998 . organisations that had never before received publi c funds for arts activities . Experience gained Isom A4 F The Arts Council looks forward to taking on th e is being used to drs-ehyp new small grants schemes , more flexible powers and responsibilities that wil l including the Arts Council's contribution to th e result from this legislation . These make it Ixissible t o \Silkennium Festival Fund . use Lottery money in a wav which better meets The needs of the arts and audiences, Aniong othe r changes, there will he a greater emphasis on people , activitics and access . It also means the Council can be more strategic in its decision making .

Tltc nem- posers present an opportunity to build o n and expand practices that the Arts Council has bee n developing since it began distributing Lottery mono ' in March 1995 . A 0, ancc through the list of award s royals that work has alrcady started on song requirements of the new Act . These include openin g tip opportunities for children and young people . h)ttcr\' CundIng Ii,is hc1pcd to make the arts n1Ore accessible to more people than ever before .

Therc were two parts to the A4E. pilot scheme: The capital programme has given theatres an d Express and \lain . Together, the\, attracted nearly galleries, arts centres and concert hails across England 16,000 applications . In 1997/98, awards were the kind of investment thcv could only dream o f announced \auger the Express sclicnte 's two rounds bcfure Alarch 199i, Iicm-Cctt then and March 1098 , and the first two rounds ofthe Alain scheme . the Arts Cooncil made 1,797 capital awards wort h .66m . Headlines have fiutlSCd utt some of the ver y 'I'Itc ME Express scheme was one of the \•ear' s large awards, but the last is that 75% of capita l highlights. It awarded L21 .7nt to over :+,000 smal l awards have hcen under L100,000 . community projects around the country, co\•crin g e\erything from circus and puppetry to hailroorn Capitai grants have helped to make arts buildings dancing and storytelling . more accessible to all members of sociov . The provision of suitable access facilities is a prime The A4E. Maid scheme \vas aimed at moire establishe d condition of any award from the capital programme , groups . Itt the first rwo rounds, the Arts Counci l 40 year sct alxotlt made awards to groups as diverse as a children 's book The Lottcrv Eilm Department this 41 tcsli\•al ill l;edfiordshire, the Leeds Centre Jor India n developing an m-crail strawg}' towards the film secto r \Susie and Dance, and the httagemation Digita l through its I,otterv Film Programme, There wa s Media Project in Bristol . wide approval for the award of three file, franchise s in Alas 1997. A4E was one of live Lottery progralttntes run h\• th e Arts (council in 1997/98 . The others were capital, filet\ production, funding for dance and dram a students, and the pilot stabilisation scheme .

Summaey awards 1997 rr Capital £227.8m Arts for Everyone Express £21 .7m Arts for Everyone Main £28m Film Programme f19.9m Dance and drama students f1m Pilot stabilisation programme f25. ,_ Through its sponsor department - the department for Culture . Media and Sport - the Arts Council i s accountable to Parliament and the general public for the way it Lottery money. i

~AtlonwMe Sevcral important capital were completed and opened during the year, g them developments at Bolton's Octago n a ']theatre, lett•castlc's List Theatre and thc• Peopl e Shoe• premises in London's Fast land. Onc of the During the year, the handing progrannne fir danc e most successtul of all capital projects cantinucs at th e anti drum students provided over L' ltn, enabling X39 ltosal National Theatre ten London's South Bank. students to take up places at 22 colleges in England . Phase one - involving extensivc alterations to th e The pilot stabilisation programme made financia l front of house area - began ha l .anuar} 1997; and aNaards to 14 Organisations, including too consorti a finished in April 1998 . I)esigned by architect , and one interim award . Among the Organisation'. on Stanton Williams, the refurhitihmcnts cost 1 :17n1 , the programme is the Birmingham Rep, ca hick is 75 coming from the Lottery capital fiend . The creating a fiend to commission nen pla's, becoming theatre itself is responsible for raising 2i'!d of total the largest Organisation Outside London dedicated to refurbishment costs . At the heart of the project' s new work . Hampshire Arts Consortia is tircusing or a SLICCCSS lies aStiltc planning anti close teamwor k creating opportunities fir shared prtlgraniming an d between the theatre's managers, the design scant , attracting new audiences . Another participant , the Arts Council and the contractors . The tuctl s ~\lanchcstcr's Inner Ciro Music, has already attracte d of the project has non• moved backstage, where a new and sizeable audictwc by cnhancing the variet y .05m-worth of technical redevelopment wil l and duality of its music prograninic . U ccmtinue over the nest three nr hoar scan .

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Lord Gowrie PC (Chairman ) Lord Gowrie P C Gerry Robinson (Chairman-designate ) Chairma n David Rcid (Vice-Chairman ) Lord Gowrie was appointed Chairman of the Arts Council in David Brierley C13 E 1994 . In 1979 he joined the Government as a Minister of Stat e Richard Cor k and held positions in Employment and the Northern Irelan d Professor Ray Cowel l Office before becoming Minister for the Arts . He was Professor Brian Cox CB E appointed to the Privy Council in 1984 and joined the Cabine t Charles Denton later that year . He resigned at his own request in 1985 . He has Professor Christopher Fraylin g been Chairman of Sotheby's, The Really Useful Group plc and Sir David Harrison CB E the Serpentine Gallery, as well as a Director of the Londo n Gavin Henderson Symphony Orchestra . He has been Provost of the Roya l Thelma Holt CB E College of Art . His hobby is reviewing books for 7-he Daily Lady MacMilla n Telegraph. Professor Andrew Iviotio n Rod Natkiel Gerry Robinson Stephen Phillip s Chairman-designate Trevor Phillip s Gerry Robinson was appointed Chairman-designate of the Arts Christopher Price Council of England in January 1998 . His career has include d Roger Rced financial and accounting roles at Lesney Products, Lex Service Stella Robson Group and Coca-Cola . He joined Granada in October 1991 a s Prudence Skene Chief Executive and took over as Chairman in March 1996 . H e John Spearma n takes a personal interest in the visual and performing arts, was a council member of the English Stage Company and has bee n Observer: Denys Hodson CB E involved in the development of the Royal Court Theatre .

Changes to Council during 1997198 David Brierley CB E Clive Priestley CB retired in April 1997 Maggie Guillebaud, Chairman of South West Arts Board Sir Ernest Hall 013E DL, and Robert Southgate retired i n David Brierley joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961 , October 1997 . Usha Prashar CBE, resigned in Decembe r and was General Manager and Secretary to the Governors o f 1997. Trevor Phillips was appointed in May 1997 ; Davi d the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1968 until 1996, whe n Brierley CBE, Christopher Price and Rod Natkiel wer e he became an Advisorv Director of the RSC . He is a Trustee o f appointed in November 1997 ; and Gerry Robinson wa s The Theatres Trust and a Director of the Theatre Royal , appointed in January 1998 . Plymouth and Theatr Chvyd, Mold . He was appointed a member of the Arts Council's National Lottery Advisory Pane l Members of'the Audit Committe e and Chairman of its Stabilisation Committee in 1996, an d David Rcid (Chairman until December 1997 ) Chairman of South West Arts Board in 1997 . David Brierley CBE (Chairman from January 1998 ) Lord Gowrie P C Richard Cor k Thelma Holt CB E Richard Cork has been Chief Art Critic for Ybe Times since Prudence Skenc 1991 . He was the Henry Moore Foundation Senior Fellow at the Courtauld Institute from 1992 to 1995 . He is also a n Members of the Preparation of Business Committe e editor, broadcaster and historian, and has published severa l Lord Gowrie (Chairman ) books . In 1989-1990 he was appointed Slade Professor of Fin e David Brierley CBE (from January 1998 ) Art at Cambridge University. Thclma Holt CB E David Reid Professor Ray Cowel l Prudence Skene Chairman of East Midlands Arts Board Professor Ray Cowell is Vice-Chancellor of the Nottingha m Trent University and a Deputy Lieutenant of the county o f Nottinghamshire . He has a strong interest in the arts, especiall y literature and music . 42

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Professor Brian Cox CB E Lady MacMillan Chairman of North West Arts Board Deborah MacMillan, widow of Sir Kenneth MacMillan, is a n Professor Brian Cox is retired Professor of English an d Australian-born painter who has lived and worked in Londo n Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Manchester University . His Collected since 1970 . She has a keen interest in dance with practica l Poems were published by Carcanet in 1993 . He founded the experience of the production and design of dance for stage an d literary journal Critical Quarterly in 1959, and still works o n television . She has been a Trustee of the Royal Opera House the editorial team . He was Chair of the National Curriculu m and Chairman of the Friends of Covent Garden . English Working Group in 1988-9, and is an Honorary Fellow of Westnninster College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor a t Professor Andrew Motion Sheffield Hallam University. He is editing a collection o f Andrew Motion is a biographer and poet, and Professor o f essays, Literacy Is Not Enough, to be published by Cambridge Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia . He ha s University Press in the autumn of 1998 . taught English at the University of Hull, edited Poetry Review and was editorial director and poetry editor at Chatto & Charles Dento n Windus . His authorised biography, Philip Larkin : A Writer's Charles Denton was Head of Television Drama at the BB C Life, published in 1993, won the Whitbread Prize, and hi s from 1993 to 1996 . He was the first elected Chairman of biography, The Lamberts, won the Somerset Maugham award . PACT (The Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television) , Andrew Motion's latest collection of poetry, Salt Water, was and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Roya l published last year, as was his biography of Keats . He is a Television Society. He is a Governor of the British Fil m Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . Institute and sat on Sir Peter Middleton's Advisory Committe e on Film Finance and the 1997/98 Film Review Group . Rod Natkie l Chairman of West Midlands Arts Professor Christopher Fraylin g Rod Natkiel has been Head of Network Production at BB C Professor Christopher Frayling is Rector of the Royal Colleg e Birmingham since 1996, and was Head of Network Television of Art . An historian, critic, writer and broadcaster, in 197 9 at BBC Midlands and East from 1992-96 . He is a member o f he founded the Department of Cultural History at the RCA . the BBC Production Management Board, Visiting Professor i n He was also Governor of the British Film Institute, a membe r Television at the University of Central England, and Chairman of the Crafts Council and Chairman of the Freeform Trust . of the Variety Club, Midlands Region . He is a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum and a n award-winning commentator, on radio, television and in print . Stephen Phillip s His latest television work includes the BBC documentary serie s Stephen Phillips is a writer, broadcaster and producer . He has The Face of Tutankhamun, Strange Landscape and Nightmare - made several hundred arts programmes, current affair s the birth of horror. documentaries and dramas for television . He was the first art s correspondent for Channel 4 and editor of its first arts serie s Sir David Harrison CB E Signals, administrator of Prospect Theatre Company, presenter Chairman of Eastern Arts Board of Kaleidoscope and critic for the Daily Express. He has bee n Sir David Harrison is Master of Selwyn College, Cambridg e Chairman of the Arts Council's Advisory Panel on Touring . and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge . He is a consultant to Meridian Broadcasting. He has been Chairman of the Board of Northcott Theatre , Exeter, and has a wide interest in the arts . Trevor Phillip s Chairman of London Arts Board Gavin Henderso n Trevor Phillips runs his own independent production company, Gavin Henderson is Principal of Trinity College of Musi c Pepper Productions, producer of Windrush. He is best known and Artistic Director of the Dartington International Summe r as the host of the London Programme, presents LWT's Cross School . He has been Director of the Brighton Festival, and ra n Talk and BBC Radio 4's The Material World . He writes a the South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell, where he create d weekly column for The Independent. the Wilde Theatre . He is Chairman of the British Arts Festiva l Association and Vice-President of the European Festivals Christopher Pric e Association . He is also Chairman of Arts Worldwide/Worl d Chairman of Yorkshire & Humberside Arts Board Circuit Arts, and of the independent film and televisio n Christopher Price is editor of The Stakeholder, has bee n company Palindrome Productions . Principal of Leeds Metropolitan University, a Member o f Parliament, a Director of the London International Festiva l Thelma Holt CB E of the Theatre, and Chair of the Select Committee o n After a successful career as an actress, Thelma Holt founde d Education, Science and the Arts . Under his Chairmanship , and ran the Open Space Theatre . She spent eight years as a report on The Public and Private Funding of the Arts was Director of The Round House until its closure, then becam e produced in 1982 . Head of Touring and Commercial Exploitation at the Roya l National Theatre . An independent producer since 1990, he r recent productions include The Glass Menagerie and A Doll's House, which transferred to New York in 1997 . Roger Ree d Honours Chairman of South East Arts Board Our congratulations to the following, who received honour s Roger Reed is a Chartered Secretary with thirty years' during the year : Jude Kelly (OBE), member Drama Advisory experience of the construction industry. He spent six years as Panel ; Cleo Laine (DBE), former member Lottery Advisor y a Director of a Training and Enterprise Council and is a Fello w Panel; Professor Colin Alexander St John Wilson (Knigh t of the Woodard Foundation . From 1980 to 1995, he was a Bachelor), former ACGB Council Member . Trustee of the Brighton Festival Trust and a Director of th e Brighton Festival Society. He is also Chairman of the Arts Trus t Obituarie s of Brighton and Hove and a farmer . We record with great sorrow the following deaths : Lor d Donaldson of Mngsbridge, Minister for the Arts from 197 6 David Rei d to 1979 ; Neil Duncan, former ACGB Director of Regional Chairman of Southern Arts Board Development from 1973 to 1976; NV (Dick) Linklatcr CBE , Following a career with IBM, including five years in the USA , former ACGB Drama Director from 1970 to 1978 ; Sir Michael David Reid has been active in arts funding and development . Tippett, one of the first members of ACGB's Music Panel i n 'this has included chairing Business in the Arts South an d July 1945 . serving as a member of the Arts Foundation .

Stella Robso n Chairman of Northern Arts Board In the 1960s, Stella Robson joined the newly-formed Regional Arts Association, later to become Northern Arts Board, whic h she has chaired since 1990 . She has been a Labour Councillo r in Darlington and County Durham since 1972 . She is a registered disabled person with partial sight .

Prudence Sken e An experienced arts administrator, Prudence Skenc has bee n Executive Director of Ballet Rambert and Executive Produce r of the English Shakespeare Company, and in May 1993 she became Director of the Arts Foundation . Before joining th e Council, she was President of the Theatrical Management Association and Vicc-Chairman of the Dancers' Resettlemen t Trust and Fund . She is Chairman of the National Lotter y Advisory Panel .

John Spearman John Spearman is Deputy Chairman of Classic FM . He is also "trustee of the World Monument Fund and a Director of th e South Bank Foundation . In association with Sir Ernest Hall , he acted as editorial advisor on the Department of Nationa l Heritage arts policy paper Setting the Sccnc in 1996 .

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They are Jane Mooney Alistair Spaldin g Roy Blatchford generally specialists in the Sarah Wason Marion Tait OB E Mick Farle y relevant arts discipline : Aaron Williamson Vivien Freakle y working artists, art s Paul Wombe d Dance Development Philip Hedley administrators, scholars and Advisory Team Dipak Mistr y critics . Listed here are th e Combined Arts Projects Deborah Barnard Evelyn Murray members of the Council' s Committe e Sanjeeveni Dutt a Anne Snelgrov e advisory bodies as at 3 1 Terry Braun (Chairman ) Manick Govind a Jo Verrent March 1998 . Paul Bonaventura Judith Hughe s Cris Chee k Jeanefer Jean-Charles Observers UE Advisory an d Tim Etchell s Edward Lync h Shirley Campbell, BA B Selection Panel Ronald Fraser-Munr o Jane Mooney Mike Faulkner, RAB Stephen Phillips (Chairman ) Kate Meynell Margaret Morri s Janet Mills, HM I Orit Aza z Andrea Phillip s Katy Spice r Wozz% Brewste r Monica Ross Advisory Panel on Literature Sheila Colv in John Walters Advisory Panel on Dram a Professor Andrew Motio n Annic Deli n Ann Whitehurs t Thelma Holt CB E (Chairman ) Sue Jenkins (Chairman ) Sue Butterworth Sylvia Kin g Observer Paul Alle n Debjani Chatterje e Marie McCluskey MB E Adrian Friedli, RAB Michael Attenboroug h Tony Lace y Kate Moss e Sir Alan Ayckbour n Lee Langle y Simon Vincenz i Cultural Diversity Advisory Roger Chapma n Hermione Lee and Monitoring Committe e Robert Cogo-Fawcett Verna Taylo r Arts and Disability Advisor y Usha Prashar CB E Keith Davies and Monitoring Committe e (Chairman until Decembe r Bush Hartshor n Observers Stella Robson (Chairman ) 1997) Jude Kelly OB E Jonathan Barker, B C Clarence Adoo Garfield Alie n Barbara Matthews CBE Literature Officer, RAB Audrey Barke r Derrick Anderson Sam Mendes Joe Bidde r Pauline Catlin-Reid Michael Ratcliffe Advisory Panel on Film Pino Frumiento Ferdinand Denni s Mandy Stewart Charles Denton (Chairman ) Laura Guthri e Deidre Figueired o Jenny Topper Mike Dib b Rowen Jad e Gerard Lemos (Acting Jatinder Verm a Michael Eaton Meena Jafare y Chairman from Decembe r Maggie Woolle y Lyn Goleb y Maria Oshod i 1997) Keith Griffith s Daphne Payn e Piali Ray Drama Projects Committe e Premila Hoo n Monica Ren e Jazz Shaban Bush Hartshorn (Chairman ) Hilary Kin g Kit Wells Parminder Vir Noel Grei g Colin Leventhal Aziz Zeria David Yi p Claire Grove Clare Mulhollan d Ewan Marshall Ann Pointi n Observer Mandy Stewar t Marc Samuelso n Indu Rubasingham Kully Thiarai Roger Shannon Deborah Yhip Alex Usborn e Cathy Westbrook Janet Walke r John Woodward Arts and Loin Budget Advisory Panel on Music Advisory Panel o n Visual Arts Advisory Group Production Committe e Gavin Henderson Visual Arts Robert Hopper (Chairman) Mike Dibb (Chairman ) (Chairman ) Richard Cork (Chairman ) Iwona Blazwic k Jeff Baggot t Richard Alsto n Roy Ascott Sonia Boyce Clare Binns Diana Burrel l Lewis Biggs Richard Hylton Michael Darlo w Geraldine Conne r Norman Binc h Penny Johnson Stephen D\voski n Tony Dudley-Evan s Richard Burton Gregor Mui r Maggie Elli s Jonathan Harvey Michaela Butte r Sandra Perciva l Gill Henderson Lillian Hochhause r Brian Catlin g Mark Pimlot t Marc Karli n Joanna McGrego r Kate Heron Mark Kidc l David Richardso n Susan Hille r Visual Arts Exhibition s Murray Marti n Dr Janet Ritterma n Robert Hoppe r Committee Gina Nc\vso n Dharambir Sing h Martin Kemp FB A Robert Hopper (Chairman ) Kath Worrall Helen Sprott Dr David Alan Mello r Susan Collins David Yate s Janis SUSSkin d Eric Parr y Peter Fraser John Wallac e AL Rees Richard Hylton National Lotter y Paul Whittaker Yinka Shonibare Penny Johnson Advisory Pane l Camilla Whitworth-Jones Lola Youn g Eric Parry Prudence Skene (Chairman ) Sandra Percival David Brierley CB E Observers Observers Mark Pimlott Neil Cross Mark Monument RA B James Bustard, RAB Matthew Evan s Julia Rose BC Susan Daniel, SAC Visual Arts Photography an d Tish Francis Isabel Hitchman, ACW New Technology Keith Harris Advisory Panel on Tourin g Andrea Rose, B C Dr David Alan Mello r Lady Hopkin s Stephen Phillips (Chairman ) (Chairman ) Paddy Masefield OB E Christopher Barro n Architecture Advisory Group Roy Ascott Tony fender Tony Dudley-Evans Richard Burton (Chairman ) Susan Collin s Virginia Tandy Ruth Eastwood Mark Cousins Peter Frase r Mark Fole y Richard Deacon Simon Grenna n Lottery Architecture Advisory Ruth MacKenzie OB E Kate Hero n Sunil Gupta Committe e Graham Marchant Eric Parry Susan Hille r Lady Hopkins (Chairman ) Brian McMaster CB E Chris Sheple y Cheryl Reynold s Gillian Darlc y Judi Richard s Isabel Vasseur Stephanie Fischer John Stalker Stephanie William s Visual Arts Artists ' Professor Adrian Gale Marion Tait OB E Film and Video Birkin Ha\yard Chris Travers Visual Arts Publication s AL Rees (Chairman ) David Mellor David Yip Committe e Karen Alexande r Graham Morriso n Dr David Alan Mello r George Barbe r Eric Parry Observers (Chairman ) Laura Mulve y Andrew Walker Mike Baker, AC W Icvona Blazcvic k Julia Peyton-Jone s Jim Beirne, RA B Mark Cousin s Simon Pummell Lottery Stabilisatio n John Buston, RAB Simon Grenna n Simon Robertsha w Committee Simon Gammell, BC Sunil Gupta Gillian Wearin g David Brierley CB E Seona Reid, SAC Toby Jackso n Heather Stewar t (Chairman ) Gregor Mui r Kim Swee t Ales Beard Contemporary Music Network Cheryl Reynolds Shafeeq Vellan i Rachel Hurst OB E Committe e Veronica Sekules Richard Lazarus David Patmore (Chairman) Abbreviations Brian McMaster CB E Peter Bolto n Visual Arts Education ACW - Arts Council of Wales William Sieghar t Tony Dudley-Evan s Training Group BC - British Council Janis Susskind Sally Grove s Norman Binch (Chairman ) HMI - Her Majesty's Milan La d David Alle n Inspectorate Mark Monumen t Toby Jackson RAB - Regional Arts Boar d 46 Eugene Skee f Vanessa Jackson RFH - Royal Festival Hall 47 Roshini Kempado o SAC - Scottish Arts Council Observer Veronica Sekule s David Sefton, RFH Lola Young Regional Arts Board s

As at 1 April 1998

Eastern Arts Board Southern Arts Board Cherry Hinton Hall, Cherry Hinton Road , 13 St Clement Street, Winchester, Hants 5023 9D Q Cambridge CBI 4D W Tel : 01962 85509 9 Tel : 01223 21535 5 Fax : 01962 86118 6 Fax : 01223 24807 5 Chairman : David Astor CBE * Chairman : Professor Stuart Timperley Chief Executive: Robert Hutchison Chief Executive: Lott Stein Area covered : Buckingbamshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Area covered: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Wiltshire; unitary authorities of Bournemouth, Bracknell Forest, Lincolnshire, Norfblk, Suffolk; unitary authorities of Litton, Isle of Wight, Milton Keynes, Poole, Portsmouth, Reading, Slough , Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea, Thurrock . Southampton, Sivindon, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham; district authority of Christchurch.

East Midlands Arts Boar d South East Arts Board Mountfields House, Epinal Way, Loughborough , Union House, Eridge Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 8HF + Leicestershire LEI 1 OQE Tel : 01892 50720 0 Tel : 01509 21829 2 Fax : 01892 54938 3 Fax : 01509 26221 4 Chairman: Roger Reed Chairman : Professor Ray Cowell Chief Executive: Felicity Harvest Chief Executive: John Buston Area covered: Kent, Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex; unitary Area covered: Derbyshire (excluding High Peak District) , authorities of Brighton and Hove, Medway. Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire; unitary authorities of Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Rutland . South West Arts Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter EX4 3L S London Arts Board Tel : 01392 21818 8 Elme House, 133 Long Acre, Covent Gardcn , Fax : 01392 41355 4 London WC2E 9AF Chairman : David Brierley CBE Tel : 0171-240 131 3 .Chief Executive: Graham Long * Fax : 0171-670 240 0 Area covered: Corn ivall, Devon, Dorset (except district authority Helplinc : 0171-670 2410 of Christchurch), Gloucestershire and Somerset; unitary authorities Minicom : 0171-670 245 0 ofBath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, Sout h Chairman : Trevor Phillips Gloucestershire, Plymouth, Torbay. Chief Executive: Site Robertson Area covered : the 32 London boroughs and the Corporation West Midlands Arts Board of the City of London. 82 Granville Street, Birmingham B1 2L H Tel : 0121-631 312 1 Northern Arts Fax : 0121-643 723 9 9-10 Osborne Terrace, Jesmond , Chairman: Rod Natkie l Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 1NZ Chief Executive: Sally Litto n Tel : 0191-281 6334 Area covered: Worcester, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire ; Fax : 0191-281 3276 metropolitan districts of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Voice mail/24 hour message service : 0191-281 286 6 Sandivell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton, unitar y Chairman: Cllr George LgUie * authorities of Herefordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Telford and Wrekin . Chief Executive: Andrew Dixon Area covered: Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland; unitary Yorkshire & Humberside Arts Boar d authorities of Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar an d 21 Bond Street, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire WF13 1A X Cleveland, Stockton; metropolitan districts of Newcastle-upon - Tel : 01924 455 55 5 Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, Sunderland, South Tyneside. Fax : 01924 466 52 2 Chairman : Christopher Price North West Arts Boar d Chief Executive: Roger Lancaste r Manchester House, 22 Bridge Street, Manchester M3 3A B Area covered : North Yorkshire; unitary authorities of East Riding, Tel : 0161-834 6644 Kingston upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire , Fax : 0161-834 6969 York; metropolitan districts of Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale , Minicom : 0161-834 913 1 Doncaster, Kirklees, Leeds, Rotherham, Sheffield, Wakefield . Chairman: Professor Brian Cox CBE FRS L Chief Executive: Site Harriso n * Took tip Area covered: Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greate r the Chairmanship on 1 April 1998 + New addres s Manchester and High Peak District of Derbyshire; unitary ** In June 1998 David Bricrlcy left the Chairmanship of South West Arts authorities of'Blackburn ivitli Dariven, Blackpool, Halton, when he was appointed a member of the Arts Council of England . John Warrington . Prescott-Thomas was appointed Acting Chairman . *** In July 1998 Graham Long was appointed Director of Finance an d Operations at the Arts Council of England . Nick Capaldi was appointe d Acting Chief Executive of South West Arts . 98 Accounts Contents

50 The Arts Council of Englan d accounts 58 Notes to the accounts

68 Grants awarded 1997/98

85 Distribution of Arts Council Lottcry award s

86 The Alts Council of Englan d Lottery distribution accounts

94 Notes to the Lottery distribution account s 100 Lottery . . . hard commitments over X100,000 1997/98

The Arts Council of ,England , accounts -,

1 April 1997-31 March 1998 '

Foreword Review of the year . The Council's principal activity is the. support of the arts . Introduction, r 'To this end it make's grants 'to arts organisations and Regional ' The Arts COUncil,of England is a registered "charity, Charity .. Arts Boards, and engages in other .activities•on behalf of the Registration Number 1036733 .. It was established by Royal = secton'The Chief Executive's report and'departmental reports - - Charter on 1 April'1994, taking over those responsibilities in ,the Annual Report provide further details of its policie s in England previously discharged by the Arts Council of and activities. There were no material policy changes durin g Great Britain: _ the year. .

. The address of the principal office, is 14 Great `Peter Street, `The Department for Culture, Media and Spoil provide d London, SWIP'3NQ . grant-in-aid of£186.Im :for the year . An adjustment of . £lm grant-in-aid outstanding was made during .the period .; The Council •receives . grant-in raid from the Department for, The accounts for.activities funded from' grant in _aid (set out Culture, Media and Sport 'and is one of the bodies designated on pages .55 to 67) show a deficit of£0 :378m . Total grant s to distribute funds fromthe National Lottery by the National , awarded during 1997/98 were £182 .655rn. - Lottery etc . Act 1993. ' Assets are held to enable, the Council 'to fulfil its objectives _ Grant-in-aid is distributed by the Council in support of the arts effectively and efficiently. All fixed assets are stated at cost less in accordance with the objectives set out in the. Royal'Charter. .depreciation, except works of art, which are stated at-cost ; ' Funds from the National Lottery are distributed in accordance ' " •The .estimated market _'value of the works of art is £26 .532m . with directions, issued under. the Act by, the Secretary of State Investments are stated at market value, for Culture, Media and 'Sport . The interim funding scheme for dance and drama students, • The Council works at arm's length from Government and has a joint funding agreement between the Department for ' the status of a icon =departmental public body. As such it is Education and Employment-and Lottery, has`enabled 53 9 regulated in accordancewith Financial Memoranda issued by -' students to take up places at 22 colleges in England : ' the Secretary of State . Accounts forgrant-in-aid and Lottery . ; are prepared separately in accordance with accounts directions . Regional Arts Boards The Regional Arts Boards are independent companies, an d The governing body of the Arts Council of.England . is the grants to them from'the Arts Council are subject to conditions \ Council which, from'June 1998, consists of a Chairman and set by the .Council . The Councilmade operating grants of ten members . The Council meets in formal-session about ten C5&076m to the 'Regional Arts Boards ;during the year, as times each year and monitors the ,work of the Chief Executive detailed inNote 4 of the accounts . In addition the Counci l and staff. There area number of advisory panels which have made further grants of LI .265m to Regional Arts Boards for no executive authority but'play an important role by providing a range 'of other activities . advice from the arts'constituency. The Arts%Council's staff are led, by the Chief Executive and•his executive team, ., There ,is --, _ a separate department for each of the art form, areas that the Arts Council supports, as well as the cross-art form areas of - education 'and training ; touring and Lottery programmes .

The Members of the Arts Council during the year and up to the signing of the accounts'we're : "

. ' "Date of Date of . Member appotntment1renewal resignation/retiremen t

Lord Gowrie PC (Chairman) . " 'April 1994 April 1998 . Gerry Robinson (Chairman fronMay 1998) - January 199 8 ' David Reid .(Vice -Chairman) April 1995 . - March 199 8 Derrick Anderson June 1998 ' ",. David Astor CBE April 1998 ,June 1998 David-Brierley CBE' November 1997 " June 199 8 "renewed June 1998,' _ Deboirah Bull June 1998 ~ ' Richard Cork April'`1995 March 1998 , Professor Ray Cowell April 1996; June 199 8 •" Professor Brian Cox CBE " January •1997 June 1998 _ Charles Denton - i - •August .1996~ June 1998 _ Professor Christopher Erayling April 1995, March 199 8 renewed. June 1998. Antony Gorinley June-1998 y ' Maggie Guillebatid may 1997 6ctober,1997, Sir Ernest Hall OBE DL - May 1997' October 1997 ' Sir David Harrison CBE May 1997 March 199 8 Gavin Henderson - May 1997 June 199 8 Thelma Holt CBE May 1997'., June 199 8 Anish Kapoor . " June 1998 " . . Councillor George Loggie ; April 11998, June_ 1998 ' Joanna MacGregor 'June'199 8 Lady MacMillan December 1996 - June 199 8 Professor Andrew Motion - _' April 1996 . ' June 1998 ' renewed June 1998 . ' Rod•Natkiel November 1997 - - Jude 199 8 Stephen .Phillips May 1997 June 1998 " • Trevor.Phillips ., - - May 1997 June 199 8 - Usha Prashar CBE - May 1997 December 199 7 Christopher Price . ' November 1997 - June 199 8 Clive Priestley CB A061,1996 April 199 7 Roger Reed April 1996 _ June 1998, ' Stella Robson May 1.997 March 1998 _ Prudence Skene April .1996 . June 1998 renewed ,Juiie 1998 ` Robert Southgate - April 1996 - October 199 7 " John Spearman December 1996 June "1998 Hilary Strong Tune 199 8 ' Professor Stuart Timperley _April 1998 June 1998

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Statement of Council's and Chief Executive's Other matter s responsibilities in relation to financial statements Coutts & Co of,440 Strand, London; WC2R OQS wer e Under the Royal Charter the'.Council is required to prepare the bankers for the Arts Council of England until a statement of accounts for the financial period in the form '1 December - 1997 . and on the basis directed-by, the Secretary of State for Culture, . Media and Sport, with the consent of the Treasury. The The Co-operative Bank of 7840. Corn•Hill, EC3V 3NJ _ accounts are to be prepared on an accruals basis ,and to show became the bankers,for .the Arts Council of England on a true and-fair view of the Council's state of affairs at the year 1 December 1997 . end, and of its income and expenditure and cash flows for the financial year . The Council is required to : The Comptroller and Auditor General of 157-197 Buckingha m Palace Road, Victoria". London, SW1W 9SP, acts as auditor • Observe the accounts direction issued by the Secretary , to the Arts Council, and his report is presented-on page 54 . of State*, which sets out accounting and disclosure requirements, and apply suitable accounting policies The Council maintains a register of interests of its members , on a consistent basis which is available•for public inspection by appointment at the Council's Great Peter Street address . • Make judgements .and estimates on a reasonable basis The . Council attempts to abide by the CBI's Prompt Payer s • State whether applicable accounting standards have been Code, and in particular to, pay bills in accordance with contract. followed, and disclose and explain any material departures In . 1997/98-95% of undisputed invoices were paid within a in the financial statements 30-day period :

Prepare the financial, statements on the going concern basis, The Arts Council is committed to a policy of equality•of ; unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Council will opportunity in its employment practices and continues t o continue in operation :' develop a culturally diverse, workforce . Twelve percent of _ staff are of non-European descent and three percent of th e * a copy of ivhicb is available from the Accounting Officer, workforce is classified as disabled . The Council's Trainin g Arts Council of Euglaiid, 14 Great Peter Street, London, and Development programmes are designed to encourage and SW1P 3NQ. support all employees in improving performance . In particular, the Council aims io ensure that no potential or actual employe e The Accounting Officer for the Department for Culture, Media receives more or less favourable treatment on the grounds of and Sport has-designated the Chief Executive as Accounting race, colour, ,ethnic or national origin, marital status, age , Officer for the Council . The relevant responsibilities as gender, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs . Accounting Officer, including the responsibility for the , ' propriety and regularity of the finances for which the The . Council ensures that there are arrangements to promot e - Chief Executive is answerable and for the keeping of proper effective consultation and communications with all staff . . . records, are set out in the Non-Departmental Public Bodies' All departments have regular staff meetings at which matters . ' Accounting Officers' Memorandum ;"issued by FjM Treasury ., relating•to the Council's activities are discussed and staf f are regularly briefed on the matters-discussed at senio r management and Council meetings . Meetings of all staff. are 'held periodically. The Council recognises the trade unio n MSF, with which it'has established a procedural agreement; ° representatives, of management and union meet regularly.

The chief executive, Mary Allen, resigned in May 1997 . The deputy chief executive, Graham Devlin, acted•in thi s position until the ,appointment of Peter Hewitt as Chie f Executive on 9 March 1998 . The title of Secretary-Genera l was changed to Chief Executive by an amendment of the . Charter on 22 April 1998 . . .

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Year 2000 computer compliance-, . The annual report provides information about'the Council's The Year 2000 problem relates to the inability of most overall financial position . Objective and professional relations computer programs to recognise the transition from 1999 to are maintained with the National Audit Office which acts a s 2000. The problem may affect not only individual computers auditor for both the Arts Council's grant-in-aid accounts and , but also automated equipment which contains embedded its Lottery distribution accounts . silicon chips . The Council has established an Audit Committee ; its terms o f The Arts Council considers that it has a responsibility not just reference are in accordance with the Code -of Best Practice for to ensure that its own equipment is made compliant for 2000 Board Members of Public Bodies issued by HM Treasury . . but also. that it provides advice to the Arts Funding System . To this end it has retained'KPMG to advise upon the Council's Post-balance'sheet events . own vulnerabilities-and howro minimise them . Additionally it On 1 May 1998 Gerry Robinson took up his appointmen t is funding a pilot study` at West Midlands Arts Board, the as Chairman of the Arts Council of England . On 17 June th e findings of which will be made available to all the other existing Council of 22 members resigned . A new Council, Regional Arts Boards . - comprising a total of ten members together with the Chairman , was then appointed . This includes fourmembers of th e The estimated cost of achieving the 'goal of compliance for the previous Council plus six new members. Arts Council itself will be quantified as part of the exercis e currently being undertaken on its' behalf. The new Council is considering the roles and relationships of both the Council itself and of the Regional Arts Boards, with The euro the likelihood that certain responsibilities will be delegated The activities of the Arts Council of England are largely from the former to the latter . AtAe same time, it is proposed national . Although some exposure to transactions .in euros to_move towards greater integration in use ofthe Arts is anticipated, it is not considered that these will be significant Council's two sources of income - its grant-in-aid and its shar e initially. Financial systems and procedures are being reviewed to of proceeds from the National Lottery . Royal Assent was give n ensure that they are capable, where necessary, of dealing in the to the Lottery -Bill on 2 July which will facilitate this process . heNv currency. Costs of ensuring compliance in the early stages Part of this change will involve a review of all regularly funde d are not expected to be great . organisations. An internal restructuring of the Arts Council will , also be undertaken to ensure that it is appropriately staffed to Statement on corporate governance fulfil its new duties . Although the Arts Council of England is' not required t o comply with the Code of Best_Practice published in December Peter Hewitt Gerry Robinson 1992 by the Cadbury, Committee on the Financial Aspects of - Chief Executive Chairman of the Arts Council Corporate Governance, the Council believes it should meet the of Englan d highest standards of corporate governance and accordingl y complies voluntarily with key aspects . of the code. 21 July 1998 21 July 1998 "

Members of the Arts Council are appointed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport for specified terms of ' office, and are unpaid . Council members work within a Cod e of Practice (.based on a Treasury model_ for non-departmental _ public bodies) which has been agreed with the Secretary o f State. The-Chief Executive and staff also work within'such a Code of Practice. The Council meets in formal session abou t ten times each year, and 'it monitors the work of the Chief' Executive and staff. Overall policy is determined by the Council itself after due consultation with interested parties, and th e Council has a schedule of matters reserved for its own decision, including key points of strategy, policy, resourcing, and staffing . All Council members have access to the Chief Executive an d senior staff as they require . The Head of Secretariat ensure s that the Council follows its established procedures .

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The Arts Council of England accounts (continued )

The certificate and report of the Comptroller and , Opinio n Auditor General to the Houses of Parliament In my opinion : • the financial statements give a ,true and fair, view of the stat e I certify that 1 -have audited the financial statements on pages of affairs of the Arts,Council of England at 31 -March 199 8 . 55 to 67 . These financial statements have been prepared under and of its incoming resources and application of resources , the historic cost convention and the accounting policies set out " . . including its income and expenditure, and cash flows, fo r on page 58 . the year then ended and have been properly prepared i n r accordance with the directions made_ by the Secretary o f Respective'responsibilities of Council, Chief Executive State for Culture, Media and Sport, and the applicable and Auditors requirements of the Charities Act ; 1993 ; ' As described on pages-52 & '53 the Council and the Chief" - Executive of -the Arts Council of England as the Accounting ' . • in all material respects the, expenditure, income and resource s Officer'are responsible for the preparation of financial have been applied td the purposes intended by Parliamen t statements and for ensuring.the regularity of financial, and the financial transactions conform to the authorities . transaction's . It is my responsibility to form an independent • which govern them . opinion'-based on my audit, on .those statements and on the regularity of the financial transactions included in them and to I have no observations to make on these financial statements . report my opinion to you . John Bourn Basis of opinion Comptroller and Auditor Genera l I conducted my audit in accordance with Auditing Standards 24 July 1998 issued by the Auditing Practices Board . An audit includes ; examination, on a test, basis, of evidence relevant to amounts National Audit -0 ffic e and disclosures and regularityof the-financial transactions 157-1197 Buckingham Palace Road included in the financial statements . It also includes an London SWIW 9SP assessment of the significant estimates and judgements made b y the Council and the Chief Executive in the preparation of the financial statements, and of whether the accounting policies are appropriate to the Art Council of England's, circumstances, consistently applied and adequately disclosed .

I planned and performed my audit so as to obtain•alII the . information and explanations which I'considered necessary i n -order to provide me with sufficient'-evidence to give reasonable ; assurance,that the financial statements are, free from materia l „ misstatement, whether caused by error, or by,fraud or other ; irregularity and that, in all, material'respects, the expenditure, . , income and resources have been applied to the purposes . intended by,Parliament and the financial transactions confor m to the authorities which .govern them . In forming my opinio n I also evaluated the overall adequacy of the presentation of, information in the financial statements .

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Statementof "financi.al .activitie,s

For the year ended 31 March 1998 '

unrestricted Restricted Total Total funds funds 1998 199 7 Note £000s ' £OOOs - £OOOs £OOOs

Incoming resource s Subsidy income 2 . 185,100 -1,500 186,600- 185,133 , Commitments written back _ 303 0 303' 45 7 _ Inierest receivable 259 0 259 224 Other income 3 328, 188 ' 516 1,102

Total incoming resources 185,990 _ 1,688 187;678 186;91 6

Resources expended Direct charitable expenditure Grants 4 181,613 1,042 182,655 180,525 - Support costs 5 7,790 ; 135 7,925 7,374

189,403 1 ;177 190,580 187,899

Other expenditure Management and administration 6' 4,058 0 4,058 1,703 Resources expended before costs apportioned to Lottery 193,461 1,177 194,638 -189,602

Costs apportioned to the Lottery 11 (6,566) 0 (6,566 ) (3,914) ...... Total resources expended 186,895 1,177 188,072 .185,68 8

_ Notional costs - 8 ' Cost of capital (538) 0 - (538) . : 0 (512(10)) . Insurance 0 0

Net incoming/(outgoing),resources after .notional costs '(1,443) 511 (932) 706 : ,

Reversal of notional costs 538 , 0 538 522 " Net incoiningj(outgoing) resources for the year 9 (905) 511• .(394) 1,228- . - Gains on investment assets - 12, 16 0 " 16 6

Net movement In 'funds (889) 511 (378) 1,234

Balance brought forward at 1 April 1997 8,910 248 9,158 7,924

Balance carried forward at 31 March 1998 8,021 750 8,780 9,158 '

There are no discontinued activities. "

. Summary of ,:income and-expenditure account ,

For the year ended 31 March 1998 - .11998 199 7 £OOOs £OOOs

5 4 Gross income "of continuing 'operations, 187,678 M6,916 55 Total income of continuing operations 187,678 186,91 6 Total expenditure of continuing operations' , 188,077 185,68 8

Net income/(expenditure) before investment asset gains (394) 1,228 p

The notes on pages 58 to 67 form part of these accounts. w

Balance sheet

As at 31 March 199 8

• Unrestricted Restricted Total ' Total funds funds 1998- 199 7 _ Note C000s £000s, E000S Z000S

Fixed assets Tangible•aswts 10 4,001 151 4,152 4,103 Investments ' 12'" 65 0"" 65 49

4,066 151 4,217 1,152 ,

Current assets Stocks 13 74 0 74 61 Debtors and'prepayments : 1 ;230 . 0 1,230 1,287 Grant-in. aid receivable 2 9,874 0 - 9,874 . 10,874 ' Due from National .Lottery 1 ;476,` .0 1,476 992 . Grants paid in advance 1-,669 '. - 0 1,669 3,295 Cash at bank and in hand _ 19 8 60 8 806 1 - 763 : ...... , - 14,521 "608 15,129 18,272

Current liabilitie s Grants outstanding - 9,503 0 9,503 10,61 7 " Creditors : amounts falling due within one yea r 1,063 0 1,063 . 2,649 - ...... : ' : : 10,566 0 10,566 . 13,26 6

Net current assets '37955 '608 4,563 5,00 6

Total assets less current liabilities ' 8,021 759 8,780 9,158 _....: :: ' _-< J Represented by unrestricted funds General fund 20 5 7637 0 5 ;637 .6,683 Capital fimd - works of art ` 20 2 7384 0 „ 2,384 2;22 7

Represented by restricted funds , " Other restricted funds 20 0 608 . 608 107 , Restricted fimd - works of art 0 151 151 141 ,

: 8,021 759, - 8,780 9,158

- Peter Hewitt Chief Executive

Gerry Robinson ` . . Chairman of the Arts Council ofEngldnd

21 July 1998 ;

Cash flow, statement

For the year ended 3Y March 199 8

- 1998- 1997 Note E000s Z000S '

Operating activities Subsidy received . 187,600 186,133 Other cash receipts 791, 1,674 " Grants paid to arts'organisations and other bodies (181,840) (180,307) 'Cash paid to and on behalf of employees , (4,870) - - (3,873) Cash payments on' behalf of the National Lottery (net) (484) .998 Other cash payments (net) , (2,190) . (3,018)

..Net cash inflow from,operating activities . 21 (993) 1,60 7

Retums on investments and servicing of finance : Interest received on short term cash deposits . 333 . 23 6

Net cash inflow from `returns on investments 333 236 '

Capital expenditure, " Purchase of tangible fixed assets (298) (355) Proceeds from sale of fixed assets 1 8 Net cash outflow from capital expenditure (297) °(347) "

Increase, (decrease) in cash 22 (957) ' 1,496 -

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Notes to the accounts

1 Accounting policies ~ Works o£art are shown at historical cost . A,dcsignated fund i s - maintained to identify all general expenditure on works of ar t a) Basis of accounts (Note 20) ."A second fund is maintained to identify all restricte d These financial statements are prepared under the historical cost expenditure on. works of art (Note 20) . com~ention . The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the accounts direction issued by the Secretary of State ~ e) Investments - ', for Culture, . Media and Sport, and they meet the requirements Investments are stated at market value . of,the Companies Acts, and of the Statements of Standard .. - Accounting Practice/Financial Reporting Standards issued and f) Stock's adopted by the Accounting Standards Board ; so far as those Stocks are stated at the lower of cost aid net realisable value . requirements are appropriate . The accounts are presented in , - accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice g) Lease s (SORP) issued by The Charity Commission in October 1995 . Costs in respect of operating leases are charged to the incom e and expenditure account on a straight line basis over the fife Separate accounts have been prepared for the Council's Lottery of the lease . activities, in accordance with the directions issued by the ~ ~ ~ - Secretary of State . Consolidated accounts have not been prepared : ti) Taxatio n The Arts .Council of England is a Registered Charity (N o b) Incoming resources , 1 .036733) and is eligible under Income and Corporation - All income is accounted for on a receivable basis except royalty Taxes Act 1988 to seek from the Inland Revenue exemption , income which is accounted for on a received basis . from taxes on income arising from its charitable objectives . The Inland Revenue has granted this exemption . Accordingly, Grant-in-aid from the Department for Media, Culture and . no taxation has been provided for in these accounts . - Sport allocated to general purposes is taken ,to the income and expenditure account in the year to which it relates . i) Pensions " The Acts Council provides a defined benefit pension scheme • c) Expenditure' ~ - 'for'its employees, the costs of which are charged to the Subsidy . expenditure is incurred in the form of grants which are statement of financial activities . ' formally offered to and-accepted by the organisations funded : by the Council-Grants are charged to the statement of financial j)•Apportioned costs , activities-in the year in which funded activities take place ; if The Arts Council incurs indirect costs which are shared . this is not determinable they are charged in the year;in which. between activities funded from the grant-in-aid and activitie s activities begin . Any amounts unpaid from grants at the year " funded from the National Lottery. It is required to apportion end are shown' in the . balance sheet as creditors and any advance indirect costs properly between• the hvo activity areas on a payments to funded organisations in anticipation of giants t o full cost basis in accordance with good accounting practice , be charged in the following financial }'ear are shown as assets (Note 11) : in the balance sheet. k) Notional costs , • Support costs comprise direct expenditure including direc t In accordance with Treasury guidance : ~ ~ , staff costs attributable to the activity. Where costs cannot b e directly att"ributed, they have been allocated to activities on a • 1. The notional cost of capital is,charged irr the Statemen t • basis consistent with use of the resources . ,Management and of Financial Activities in arriving at a net incoming/(outgoing) administration costs are those incurred in connection with . resources figure . This . is reversed so that no provision is , the management of the Council's assets, organisationa l included on the balance shee t administration and compliance with constitutional an d statutor}' requirements . ' 2. The principles of FRED '14 have been adopted for th e 1997/98 accounts and- the notional cost of insurance , has d) Depreciation and fixed assets " not been calculated nor any provision included . Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets (excluding works of art) at rates calculated to write off the cost les s I) Consolidated account s estimated residual value of each asset systematically over - The Arts Council has .four trust funds, as follows : its expected useful life as follows : 1 :, Compton Poetry Fund -established for the purpose o f Freehold land Not depreciated supporting Literature . . • • ,Freehold buildings Over fifty years , 2 . Mrs Thotntorn Fund -established for the purpose o f Leasehold buildings - Over the life of the lease supporting Casting Sculpture . Equipment, fixtures. and fittings Over four years 3. Arts Council Trust for Special Funds -established for the - Motor vehicles Over four years ~ - purpose of supporting the Arts . 4. Arts Council Staff Benevolent Fund -established for th e A full year's depreciation is provided in the year of a n purpose of supporting ex-employees of the Arts Counci l asset's acquisition ; and none in the year of its disposal . ' who have encountered financial difficulties .

The Council considers these trust funds to be of an immaterial nature and therefore has not consolidated the m into the annual accounts . V

2 Subsidy income Unrestricted - Restricted Total Tota l funds' funds 1998 1997 £000s" - £OOOs ' .1 £000s £OOOs

Cash grant-in-aid voted 'by Parliament and paid in full a s published in the Parliamentary Supply Estimates C1assX Vote 1 . `' 186,100 0 186,100. 186,133 ' ` Department for Education and Employment` 0 1500 1,500 , r 0 Less: grant.-in.-aid receivable 10,874 010 ;874 11;874

175,226 1,500 176,726 .' - 174,259

Plus: grant-in-aid receivable outstanding as at 31 March 1998 9,874 0 9,874 10,874

Grant-in-aid as shown in the statement of financial activities .185,100, 1,500 186,600 185,13 3

3 Other income Unrestricted Restricted Total. Total " funds finds ;. 1998 1997 £OOOs £OOOs' - £OOOS " LOOOS

Grants, sponsorship and donations received 45 156 201 432 Joint funding for traineeships 0 - 32 • ` .32 72 ' 'Conference fees 2 0 2 21 Publications and royalties .72 0 -72' 63 - Profit on sale of fixed assets 1 -0 1 0 Film production income' 188 0 188 26 0 Sundry 20 0 20 32 Contributions from other Councils 0 0 0 222 ...... 328 , 188 516 ' 1,102

For 1997/98 `Contributions from other Councils' has been included in `Grants, sponsorship and donations received' .

The grants, sponsorship and donations are analysed as follows :. £OOOs LOOOS £OOOs £OOOS The Scottish Arts Council 17 57 74 52 . ' Arts Council of Wale 's 17 33 . 50 31 " Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 0 18• 18 28 , David Cohen Trust 0- 15 15 1'S Henry Moore' Foundation 0 10 10 0 Sark ,Point Reprographics 0 5- 5 0 Museums and Galleries Commission 0 5 . 51 0 'British Council 0 1 . 1' ; 1 0 London Arts Board 0, 0 0 -128 Guinness Plc - 0 0 - 0 148 Esmce Fairburn Charitable, Trust ,- 0 0 0 20 Other 11 12 , -23 0 - , ...... " 45-. 156 ' 201 ' 432

^ 58 59

Notes to the accounts (continued)

4 Grants Unrestricted Restricted - Total - Total funds funds 1998 1997 ` LOWS £OOOs £OOOs £OOOs

Grants by art form Combined Arts 16,465 91 . '16;556 16,66 8 Cross-disciplinary initiatives 1,387 0 1,387 1,152 Dance 23,162 0 23,162 23,286 Drama 27,086 42 . 27,128 27,357 Film, Video and Broadcasting 0 0, 0 395 - Literature 1,427 0: 1,427 1,565 Music 43,545 . 0 43,545 43,033 Touring 4,575 0 4,575 4,455 Education and Training 731 0 731 853 Visual Arts 5,159 2 5,161 4,661 _ : _ :: See Schedule 1 for detail . . 123,537 135 123,672 123,425

Grants'to Regional Arts Board s Eastern Arts Board 4,658 0 4,658 4,621 East Midlands, Arts Board 4,260 0 4,260 4,147 London Arts Board 13,613 0 13,613 13,508 Northern Arts Board 5,705 0 5,705 5,508 North West Arts Board 7,541 , 7,541 7,448 Southern Arts Board '3.,375 0 3,375 3,303 South East Arts Board 2,489 0 - 2 ;489 2,515 South West Arts Board 4,284 0 4,284 4,148 West Midlands Arts Board 5,541 0 5,541 5,418 Yorkshire & Humberside Arts Board 6,610 0 6,610 6,484 ...... : 58,076 0 58,076 57,100

Interim funding scheme Lottery (Dance and Drama) 0 907 907 0 See Schedule, 2 for details : 181,613 1,042 182,655 180,525

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5 Support costs Unrestricted Restricted Total Total funds funds 1998 1997 ' £0009 . £000s, £0005 LOWS '

Combined Arts 637, .• 0 637 45 5 Dance - 508 0 508 375 Drama 635 0 635 460 Film, Video and -Broadcasting '485 0 485 ' 1,334, . - Literature 572 1 573 500 = Music 559 560 434 ' Touring - , ,1 ,041 0 1,041` 972 ` ' Visual Arts 1,175 11 1,186 648 Press and Public Affairs 460 0 466 .31 0 ' Business Assessment and Planning - 440 , 112 , 552 '- -551 Policy, Research & Planning 663_ 10 . 673 702 ' Education and training .' 615 0 615 568 Information 0 0 0 . 65 ,

1 7,790 135 7,925' 7,374

Other funded activities include a wide range of different initiatives comprising film production, promotion of the Contemporary . Music Network, Guinness Pub Theatre awards, research, consultancies ; publications and conferences . Income arising,from these -- activities has•been included in `other income' (Note 3) .

6 Total resources expended ' Support Management Total Tota l ' costs administration -1998 1997- ; £000x. £OOOs £0009 £OOOS

Staff costs 2,978 1,937. 4,915 3,873 Depreciation 145 95' 240 23 6 Travelling, subsistence and entertainment 442 226 668 609 Rent and rates 1,243 807, 2,650 1,364 Fuel, light and house expenses 184 119 303 22 6 Publicity-and promotions 438 57, 495_ 50 7 Postage and telephone 0 0 .- , 0 70 Agency staff costs. 408 .265, 673. - 389 Professional fees 1,042 '188 1,230 1,402 Office and sundry 1,045 339 , 1,384 -1,62 1 25' 25 ' (1,220) Irrecoverable Value Added tax r

7,925 . 4,058 11,983. 9,077

For 1997/98, postage and telephone, costs have'been'included in"Office and sundry' . . -

7 Staff costs . , . 1998. 1997 , E000S LOWS

Salaries and wages 4,193 3,433 , Employer's National Insurance 338 280 - Arts Council Retirement Plan (1994) 384 - ., 160•' •' 60

_ 4,915 3,873 61

Notes to the accounts (continued )

7 Staff costs (continued ) The Chairman, Council' and panel members are not paid for their services . In the course of discharging their duties Council member s assess artistic work. This assessment involves attending music, dance, drama and other performances, as well as attendance at poetry ` readings, films, exhibitions and galleries, etc . The cost of tickets for these performances and events is met by the Art's Council of , England . In 1997/98, the total cost of tickets purchased for this purpose was £9,303 . Lord Gowrie .had the use of a car and drive r -in order,to discharge his duties as Chairman., ;

-An actuarial'.valuation of the pension fund takes place, every three years. The last valuation. was at 1 April 1996. On advice -of-the actuary, the employer's contribution for 1997/98 .was-set at 9 .4% (8 .8% 1996/97) . The basis of the calculation is available o n request from the Accounting Officer, Arts Council of England, 14•Great .Peter Streef, London, SWI-P 3NQ .

The scheme is financed "by payments by the Council and employees into a trustee-administered fund independent of the Council's - finances: The amount due to the fund at 31 March -1998, was £48;899 which represented the contributions for• March 1998 .

The contributions are invested by a leading fund management company. The net market value of scheme assets at 31 March 1998 was £25,889,000. ;

The average monthly, number of employees during the year was made . no as follows: 1998 199 7

Direct charitable activities 121 106 _ Management and administration 76 60 .

197- 16 6

Employees (excluding the Chief Executive) receiving remuneration over-£40,000 1998 1997 ,

£401000-£49,999 5 6 Z50,000-459,91 99 0 1

The total remuneration of the Chief Executive, including taxable benefits is as follows :

Mary" Graham, Peter Total Total Allen Devlin Hewitt 1998 -.1997

Salary & benefits 25,634 •55,777 4,328 85,739 63,806 , Pension, . 1,000- - 5,085 407 6,492 5,61 5

26,634 60,862 4,735 92,231 _ 69,42 1

Mary Allen resigned as chief executive in May 1997 . Payment in lieu of notice was agreed -and: paid at £5,000 per month for , three months.:'Graham Devlin was the acting chief executive from 23 May 1997 until 6'March 1998 . Peter Hewitt commenced as Chief Executive on 9 March 1998 .

8 Notional costs Notional cost of capital is calculated as 6% of the average net assets employed by the Arts Council in the year .

The Arts Council has adopted the principals of FRED 14 for the 1997/98 accounts and has not included notional insurance _ costs or set up any insurance provision :

9 Net incoming/(outgoing) resource s

Net incoming/(outgoing) resources are stated after charging : _ 1998 ' 1997 £OOOS t£OOOs

a (a) Auditors' remuneration 35 35 (b) Operating leases . 1,958 1,305 p (c) Other advice and consultancy 1,452 1,338 . (d) Council-members travel, subsistence and hospitality w _ 62 44

10 Tangible .fixed assets Equipmen t Land and fixtures and Works Tota l buildings' ` fittings .., Vehicles, of art 199 8 £OOOs £OOOs' £OOOs- £OOOs £OOOs

Costs at 1 April 1997 1,982 1,443 33 2,368 - 5,826 -

Additions 0 1. 22• 176 - 29 8

Less : disposals 0 • , 107 - 0 . 9 116 ".

Cost at 31 March 1998 •1,982 1,458 33 2,535 6,008 . . Depreciation at 1 April 1997 496 1 ;216, 11 0 1,723 _ Less: depreciation on disposals 0 107 y' 0 -0 10.7 Provided for 1997/98 75 157 8 0 -240

Depreciation at 31 March 1998 " 571 _ 1,266 19 0 . 1,856

Net book•value at 31 March 1998 1,411 ' . 192 14 2,535 ' 4,152

. Net book value at 31 March 1997 1,486 227 22 2 ;368 4,103

Fixed assets are stated at their value to the business by reference to current costs. The Council considers that there is no materia l difference between their-values-by reference to current cost andtheir values under . the historic cost convention. -

The net book ' value of land and 'buildings comprises : , 1998 1997 . E000s £OOOs

_ Freehold 336 346 Short leasehold improvements 1,075 1,140 ,

1,411- 1,486

Net book value as at 31 March `1998 includes assets with an historical cost .of£1,066,129 which have been ,fully depreciate d (1997.-£956,172) . ,

The net book value at 31 March1998 represents fixed assets for : _

Equipmen t Land and fixtures and Works Total buildings fittings Vehicles of art 1998, ' £OOOs £OOOs . , £OOOs' £OOOs £OOOs

Direct charitable activities . 856 ; 116 9 2,535 3,516 , Other activities . 555 7,6 5 0 ' 636 ..

1,411 192 14 2,535 4,15 2

Art Collectio n The Arts Council collection has been valued by the curator at £26,531,770 at 34 March -1998 . - ~62` " The purpose ,of the collection is to-increase the understanding and appreciation of contemporary art and to widen its audience ,

through loans to other galleries; public institutions and•exhibitions . Due to thi s,, the Arts Counci l - of England has elected not to 63

revalue the Art Collection-. It is not held for investment or resale .

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Notes to the accounts (continued )

11 Costs apportioned to the Lottery The financial directions issued,by the Secretary of State require that indirect costs shared between grant-in-aid funded activities and Lottery funded activities should be apportioned between the two in accordance with good accounting practice .

Overhead costs have been allocated to grant distributing departments in proportion to those departments' own costs .

The resulting frill costs of grant distributing departments" are apportioned between activities to ,be funded by,grant-in-aid and activities to be funded by the Lottery in proportion to time spent .

12 1nJestments 1998 199 7 £OOOS C000s .

Equities investment fund for charities 65 '49

On 31 March 1994, the Arts Council of Great Britain transferred ownership to the Arts Council of England of 5,870 Charifund " Units valued at £41,178 on that .date .7he historical cost transferred was 1;3,082 .

13 Stock 1998 199 7 £OOOs £OOOs

_ Stationery 15 1 7 Publications 5 9 44 ...... 74 61

14 Grant offers 1998 1997 LOWS Z000s Forward funding : ` 1997/98 0 169,164 1998/99 169,964 495 1999/2000 206 1 0 2000/2001 120 0

170,290 169,669

These figures represent the' total value of the grants offered for the years indicated at 31 March 1998 .

15 Leases At 31 March 1998 the Council had annual commitmerits under non-cancellable operating leases as set out below .

- Land & Land & buildings buildings 1998 1997 £OOOS zooos Operating leases which expire : within one year 153 . 54 within two and five•years inclusive 373 ' 0 over five years 1,808 1,671 :..: ...... 2,334 1,725

16-Capital commitment s There were no contracted capital commitments at 31 March 1998(1997 -CO) .

17 Tax and social security creditors 1998 199 .7, . £OOOs £OOOs

Tax and social security creditors 191, . 142 ;

18 South Bank Centre leas e The . Council owns the freeholds of the National Film Theatre ; the Museum of the Moving Image, the Hayward ;Gallery, th e Queen Elizabeth Hall, the, Purcell Room and the Royal Festival Hall, which are leased to the South Bank Centre . In light .of th e terms of the lease ;. no value has been placed on these assets in the accounts .

19 Royal National Theatre The Council owns the freehold of the Royal National Theatre, which is leased and occupied by the Royal National Theatre, Boar d Limited . In light of the terms of the lease, no.value has been placed on the assets in the accounts .

20 Reconciliation of,movements in government funds

At 1 April < Net investment At 31 Marc h _ 1997 . Income Expenditure gains/losses Transfers 1998 '- £000 ,£000 £000 £000 £000 £000

Unrestricted funds General fiind 6,683 185,990 (186,895) 16 (,157) , 5,63 7 - Capital fund,' works of art 2,227 0 0 0 157 ' 2,384 "

' Restricted fund s Restricted'fund 107 1,678 , (1,177) 0 0" 60 8 Capital fund - works of art 141 10 0 0 0 151 -

9;158 187,678 (188,072) 16 ' 0 8,78 0

Description of fund s

Unrestricted funds a) General fund Grant-in-aid is received from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport . This is th e Council's main source of income, and , is supplemented by other income . This amount is applie d to'grants, running costs and the purchase-of works of art . , b) Capital fund -works of art Any capital .expenditure on works ofart is'transferred to a separately identifiable fund . % Restricted funds a) Restricted fund The Council receives grants, sponsorship and donations for specific activities . It also participates in joint funding for traineeships . Any such income and associated,expenditure is identified - . separately. The balance is represented as follows : 1998 1997 £OOOs £OOOs•

Department for Education and Employment 593 0 64 David Cohen Trust 15 0 1 ' ' Guinness Plc - 01 . - 167 . ' .j . ' 65 .. 608 107 a

' b) Capital fund - works of art Donations are'received-by'the Council for the purpose of obtaining 'works of art for. its collection .. Such donations are identified by a separate fund :

Notes to tfie accounts (continued )

21 Cash flow reconciliatlori . " Reconciliation of operating surplus/(deficit) to net cash inflow from operating'activities 1998 . 1997 • ' LOWS LOWS

Operating surplus/(deficit) '. (378) 1,234 ' Interest receivable (259) (224) Depreciation, charges 240, 23 5 Net loss on disposal of fixed assets 8 - 6 , (Increase) in market value of'investmeuts • (16) (6) , (Increase) in stocks (13) - (16) Decrease in debtors and prepayments 499 2,134 (Increase)/decrease in grants paid in advance -1,626 (624) Increase/(decrease)in grants outstanding (1,114) 842 (Decrease) in creditors : (1,586) . -(1,974)

Net cash inflow/(outflow) from operating activities (993) 1,60 7

22 Reconciliation of net cash flow to movement. in funds 1998 199 7 £OOOs '£OOOs .

Increase/(decrease) in cash in-the.•year (957) 1,496 , Funds at 1 April 1997• 1,763 26 7

_ Funds at 31 March 1998 - 806 " ' 1,763

23 Analysis of net cash } 1 April 31 Marc h 1997, Cash flow 1998 LOWS £OOOs £OOOs

Cash' 1,763 (957) ' 806 Overdrafts 0 0 0

1,763 (957) 806

24 Related partie s The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is the sponsoring department for the Arts Council of England and is regarded as a related party. Regional Arts Boards are similarly regarded as related parties by virtue"of the funding relationship with' the, Arts Council ' and by virtue of common membership of the Council and boards . During the year the Arts Council of England had various materia l transactions with the Regional Arts Boards, the British Film Insiitute, the Crafts Council and the London Film and Vide o Development Agency for which the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is also considered the sponsoring department .

As a matter of policy and procedure, Council and panel members maintain publicly available registers of interests and declare an y direct interests in grant applications made to the Council and commercial relationships with the Council . They exclude themselve s from the relevant grant appraisal, discussion and decision processes within the Council . ;

Some Council members are also Chairs of .Regional Arts Boards . Eleven Council members were also .trustees, governors or boar d members, of other bodies to which grants ,have been made by the Arts Council in 1997/98 . In no such case was there any possibility of personal financial gain for, Council, members .

The following transactions are considered to be disclosable related party transactions :

Giant Organisation Council" Relationshi p member/relatio n

4,104,000 English National Ballet Lady MacMillan_ Supplier, choreographic rights 14,548,515 Royal Opera House Lady MacMillan- Supplier, choreographic rights 5,472,000 Birmingham Royal Ballet Lady MacMillan Supplier, choreographic rights 9,293,500 Royal Shakespeare Theatre David Brierley CBE Advisory Directo r 2,500 Nottingham Trent University Prof. Ray Cowell Vice-Chancellor 3,782 British Film Institute Charles Denton Governo r 13,657,280 South Bank Foundation John . Spearman Directo r 12,000 Darlington International Gavin Henderson Artistic Director Summer School 12 1 500 British Arts Festival Association ' Gavin Henderson Chairman 15,000 . World Circuit Arts Gavin Henderson Chairman 64,872 Book Trust ' Prof. Brian'Cox CBE Board 'member 60,000 The Royal College of Art. Prof. Christopher, Frayling Rector 65,000 Free Form Arts Trust Martin Goodrich Artistic Director (brother-in-law of Prof. C Frayling ) 5,472,000 Birmingham Roval Ballet Robert Southgate ' Vice-Chair 157,900 City of Birmingham Touring Opera . Robert Southgate Board member 61,000 AXIS Sir Ernest Hall OBE DL Patron 21,500 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Sir Ernest Hall OBE-DL Patron 1,225,000 Northern Ballet Theatre 'Sir Ernest Hall OBE DL Chairman 10,000 Yorkshire Sculpture Park _ Sir Ernest Hall OBE DL Trustee 170,078 Thelma Holt Ltd Thelma Holt CBE Managing Direcio r 225,827 Asian Music Circuit Vijay Sharma Board member (husband o f Usha Prashar CBE)

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Grantsawarded 199. 7/98 " Schedule 1 to the Accounts For the period to 31 March 1998

£ Combined Arts _ Canary,Wharf 4,000 - National . companies . Centre for Contemporary Arts . 5,000 ' South Bank Board _13,330,400 Centre for Performance Research ' ,, 10,000 13,330,400 Chapter Arts Centre 9,000 Regularly funded organisations Como No! 8,000 Institute of Contemporary Arts '815,000 Dance'Xchange 3,500 National Disability. Arts Forum 60,000 Diversions' Dance Company 7,500 ' ' Visiting Arts 172,100 Dovecot Arts Centre 19,000 Voluntary Arts Network 50 1000- The Drum and Brumhalata - ' . 1,097,100 Intercultural Storytelling 4,060 Fixed-term funded organisations East Midlands ,Shape 13,000 Artangel Trust 7,5,000 . Fifth Amendment 24,500 Arts, Administration 25,200 Fotofeis 10,000 Blast. Theory 7,500 Francosonic 5,000' ' Daily Life. 25,000 Gabrieli Consort and Players 5,000 Furnace 7,500 GH Promotions 5,000 . Hull Time Based Arts 30,000. Huddersfield Contemporar y Locus + 15;000 ' Music Festival -5,000 Moti Roti Company, 30,900 Hull Time Based Arts -5,000 . Second Stride 108,000 Ikon Gallery 8,000 324,100 Institute of Contemporary Arts 12,500 Totalgrants tofunded organisations - 14;751,600• John Hansard Gallery 5,000 : : ...... Joyful Noise 5,000 Arts 2000 LIFT -London International Photoarts 2000 ; 400,000 Festival of Theatre 3Q,500 400,000 London Musicians' Collective - 9,000 Cultural diversity Lyric Theatre Hammersmith Trust . , 10,000 Asian Arts Access 10,000 Manchester Cantonese Opera Festival 31000 ° British Chinese-Artists Association 22,000 Manchester International Arts 6,000 East Midlands Arts Board 10,000 Mayfest 8;000 London Arts Board 3,000 ' Mostyn Gallery 10,000 - Middlesex University 8,000 Museum of Modern Art (Oxford) 5,000 I- North West Arts Board 3,000 NVA Organisation 1 8,000 Northern Arts Board 31 500 October Gallery Trust 10,000• . South East Arts Board . 3,000 Offshore International Cultural Projects 8,000 Yorkshire & Humberside Arts Board -3,500 Oxford University 5,060 66,000 PiAi Ray Mahasay 4,000 • Digital artists & digital technology The Place Theatre ' 5,000 ' Abimbola Ajadi ' 2,323 Rainbow Over,Bath 5,000 ' Birmingham Centre for Media Arts 4,000- Sadler's Wells Trust 10,000 Ivlanouchka Gold 4,000 Salisbury Festival ' -12,000 HuII,Time, Based Arts , 3,385 Samudra 2,000 _ Patrick McBride, 4;000 Serpentine Gallery 7•,000 Donald Rodney 4,000 Sharing Movement UK 6,000 ` Ann Whitehurst 4,000 Site Gallery 7,000 25,708 '- South Connections 2;600 Disability arts publishing South London Art Gallery • 5,000 Disability Arts In London 3,640 St Donats Arts Centre 7,500 Full Circle Arts 10,850 St Ive's International 15,000 West Midlands Disability Arts, Forum .5,587 Claire Swatheridge 3,000 - ' 20,077 Dalier Sylw 5,000 ,International initiatives fund Timbala 5,000 30 Underwood Street Gallery 8,000 World Circuit Acts 10,000 Aberystwyth Arts Centre - 1,200 Yaa Asantewaa•Arts Centre - 4,000 Africa Oye! 5,500 Yorkshire Sculpture Park 10,000 Ajaykumar 5,000 Zap Art. 5,000 `Apna Arts' 4,000 503,300 a Arnolfini Gallery 12,000 . Live art development: combined arts project fund a Arrange] Trust 8,000 3 or 4 Composers 5,000 , Artists' Project 4,000 Michael Atavar 15,600 Association-Sargam 4,000 Ansunian Biswas 5,000. David Bailey 3,000 Blissbody , 5,000 Bath Festivals Trust , 20,000 Laurie Booth 20,000 Belgrade Theatre'Trust (Coventry) 5;000 Jyll ,Bradley 4,000 ' U Brouhaha,International 8,000 Rosemary Butcher 20,250 E

Combo 5,000 Jony Easterby 50 0 Contemporary Archives 5,000 Jordan McKenzie 50 0 "Craftspace Touring 5,000 Christine Molloy ` 50 0 Daily Life 18,000 " Adrian Palka 46 7 Film .& Video Umbrella 2,000 . Vanessa Richards 50 0 Forced Entertainment Kathleen Rogers 50 0 Theatre Co-operative 7,825 Gordana Stanisic 50 0 Furnace 7,150 Andre Stitt 274. ' Ruth Gibson . 12,000 ' Mike Stubbs . 50 0 Gob Squad .5,000 Carey' Young 24 0 The Gogmagogs' 10,000 .8,97 6 Helena Goldwater 1 5,060 Live art development: critical contex t Kazuko Hohki 15,460 30 Underwood 'Street Gallery ' 5,000 Housewatch 8,000 Arnolfini Gallery 2,200 Hull Time Based Arts 30,000 Arts Administration 7,000 Roddy Hunter 5,000 Dartington College of Arts 1 ;626 . --Incarceration Project 20,000 The Laboratory, at the Ruskin Schoo l London Musicians' Collective" 30,000 of Drawing & Fine Art 2,500 Kaffe Matthews 8,900 Locus + 2,348 , Mongrel 15,000 Open University 62 5 Platform _ 20,000 21,29 9 Simon Poulter and Jean-Pierre Rasle - 5,000- Live art development: archive Jane Prophet 5,000 Hull Time Based Arts 6,000 Robert Pacitfi Company 5,000 Institute of Contemporary Arts 5,000 , Salisbury Festival 25,000 Live Art Magazine 4,499 Nic Sandiland 10,000 Locus + . 6,000 Station House Opera 5,000 Nottingham Trent University 2,500 _ Gary Stevens 5,000 Ken Turner 1,000 Simon Tegala 4,750 24,99 9 Kate Tierney 5,000 Live art development. strategic initiatives Walks On Water 15,000 in digital technology, Aaron Williamson 4,950 Autograph 2,500 . 398,885 Big Room 4,900 Live art development: live art commissions BN1 Visual Arts Project 2,500 Arnolfini Gallery 8,450 Brighton Media Centre' . 1,37 5 The Arts Catalyst 10,000 EPE Projects 2,725 Black Arts Alliance 14,600 ECAL 97 1,500 Bluecoat Arts Centre 11,000 Liquid Screen 3,500 Contemporary Archives 13,000 Loughborough University of Technology 3,00 0 Ferens Art Gallery, Hull 5,000 Nic Sandiland 7 1 50 0 Film &Video Umbrella 4,000 29,50 0 Firstsite 8,000 Notting_Hill Carnival bands Hounslow Arts Trust 9,924 Adun Society -78 0 Hull Time Based Arts . 14,855 Balisaye Carnival Club 1,480 .Institute of Contemporary Arts 15,000 . Bayie Busuofo - 1,480 Locus + = 12,000 Beeraahar Sweet Combination 1,48 0 Norwich School of Art & Design 5,000 The Bride Productions 78 0 Shinkansen 110,000 Burrokeets Cultural Club 1,480 140,829 Callaloo 78 0 Live art development: professional development Caribbean Carnival Club 1,480 Active Ingredient 1,500 - , Caribbean Sunset Club 78 0 Reckless Sleepers 1,500 Chale Carnival Costume Band 2,000 . Shinkansen 2,500 Chats Palace 2,500 " " 5,500 Children & Parents Carnival Association 1,150 68 Live art development: live art travel & research Cocoyea 3,980' , 30 Underwood Street Gallery 500 Dalston Children's Centre . 1,480 69 Matt Adams 490 Design In Mind 78 0 The Arts Catalyst 500 Dominica Sisseton Carnival Club 2,796 Ansuman Biswas 500 Dragons Sporting Cultural Club (UK) 1,480 a Robin Blackledge 250 Ebony "Steelband Trust 78 0 ' Heath Bunting 230- Elimu Mas 3,980 Martin Burton 500 Emashi African Arts' & Entertainment 780 0 John Cayley 525 Flamboyan Community Association 1,48 0 0 Cris Cheek 500 Flamingo Carnival Club 3,980 Phillip Coy 500 Flyover Carnival & Social Club . 780 U - e

Grants awarded 1997/98 (continued )

Genesis Carnival Group - 3,980 London Arts Board 96,635 Kuumba Carnival Band 1,480 National Artists" Association 20,000 London School: of Samba 1,480 North West Arts Board -110,000 Mahogany Carnival Club 3,980 South East Arts Board - '30,00 0 Mangrove Steel Band, '1,480, Yorkshire 8& Humberside Arts Board 60,000 '. Mas-O-Rama Arts ' 1,480 Total contingency fund 594;291 Masquerade 2000 Associates . 3,980 Misty Carnival Club > 3 1,980 Reserves fund Nostalgia Carnival, Club 1,480 Donmar Warehouse Projects 150,00 0 People's War Carnival Band 1,480 D'Oyly'Carte Opera Company 250,00 0 Perpetual' Beauty CarnivalClub, 3,980 Eastern Arts Board - 20,00 0 Phoenix Carnival Costume Band 1,480 . North West Arts Board 200,00 0 Pioneers and Their Offspring 780 West Midlands ,Arts Board 50-,000 _ Quilombo Do Samba' 1,480 . Yorkshire & Humberside,Arts,Board 100,00 0 Scarlibis Community & Cultural Club 780 Total reservesftind '770,00 0 ...... Shademakers Carnival Club ' 3,980 . ' South Connections 3,980 Total cross-disciplinary project grants 1,387,09 1 Spektakular 780 St Clement & St James Community Project - 1,480 Danc e St Mary of the Angels _ 1,480 National organisation s Stardust Mas 1,480, Royal Ballet 6,555,000 Trinbago Carnival Club' 3,980 Birmingham Royal Ballet 5,47,2,00 0 r Trinidad & Tobago ,Carnival Club 1,480 12,027,000 - ` Yaa Asantewaa Arts Centre' 3,980 Regularly funded organisations , 94,386 Adzido 680,01 6 Strategic initiatives Dance Umbrella 250,000 . _ `. Attic Producers Publishing Company. 2,500 English .National Ballet 3,903,000 British Arts Festivals Association 12,500 ,Northern Ballet Theatre 1,225,000 Institute of Contemporary Arts 15,000- Rambert Dance Company 1,240,000 Mongrel 600 7,298,016 Moti Roti Company 3,000 . Fixed-term funded organisations - South East Arts,Board 2,000 ADiTi 65,000' Tango and Crash 2,750 Badejo Arts, 65,000 24,350' CandoCo ' . 90,00 0 Tooth arts Cholmondeleys .and Artswork 18,000 Featherstoneh'aughs 182,00 0 Youth Ants Network 9,000 Contemporary Dance Trust 775,00 0 l 27,000 " . Dance 4 80,000 Total projectgrants 1,804,809' Dance City _,100,00 0 - : : Dance UK 60,000 - Total Combined Arts 16,556,409 Dance Xchange 95,000 • DV8 Physical, Theatre 100,00 0 Foundation for Community 'Dance 75,000 Cross-discipiInary .initiatives Green Candle 130,000- ' Business Assessment & Planning North West National Dance Agency 60,000 Adzido Dance Company - 1,000 Shobana Jeyasingh 210,00 0 Business In The Arts 8,000 Siobhan_Davies Dance Company 226,00 0 Madeline Hutchins 1,000 Suffolk Dance 95,000 West Yorkshire Arts Marketing 2,800. Thamesdown Dance Studio 100,00 0 _ Total Business Assessment & Planning 12,800 Union Dance Company 70,000 , V-T61 83;000 - Policy Research & Planning - Yolande Snaith,Theatredance 75,000 BAC ` . 4,000 Yorkshire Dance Centre 100,00 0 Fehmeeda Jafarey 500 2,836,000 ,` Patricia Sutcliffe ' 500 One-offgrants Trafford MBC 5,000 Adzido -,10,000 ' a Total Policy Research & Planning . , 10,000 Badejo Arts 16,600 . ` a Dance UK 25,000 ` Contingency fund -Siobhan Davies Dance Company -80,000 ~- Arts Board South West 160,000 V-Tol 20,000 o English National Ballet 31,000 145,000 . .' Institute of Contemporary Arts ,, 86,656' -, Totalgrants to funded organisations . 22,306,016

` National Dance Agencies: Sanipad, 7,000 , development and expansion'of the network Shinkansen 10,000 ' South East Arts Board 12,000 Suffolk .Dance ' 2,000 12,000 . Thamesdown Dance Studio - 3,500 Independent .projects ' 56,56o' , Arc Dance Company, 15,000 Total developmentgrants 856,14 5 Bedlam Dance Company_ . , - - • 20,000 , ...; ..: : : Bi Ma Dance Company 30,000 ; . - Total,Dance 23462,16 1 Chitraleka. and Company 15,000 Claire Russ Ensemble 10,000 Dance Xchange 20,000 ' Dram a ` Divas . 5,000 National companies ' Edwards and Watton 14,000 Royal National Theatre 11,167,00 0 Imlata 40;000 . Royal Shakespeare Company` 8,470,000 ' Irie! Dance Theatre ' ,40,000 - ti 19 ;637,00 0 ' Javier -De Frutos 20,000 Regzslarly fisnded organisatio n Jeremy James 5,000 'English Stage Company 911,000 Jonathan Burrows Group 35,000' 911;00 0 -'Mark Baldwin Dance Company 30,000 Fixed-term funded organisation s " Mark Bruce Dance Company 10,000 " Actors Cabal-(Compass = Mature Dancers Project 20,000 Theatre Company) - 103,500 , Motionhouse . -50,000 , Actors Touring Company_ (London) _ 131,200 % Nahid'Siddiqui and Company 35,000 Bath Arts Workshop. Nigel Charnock 30,000 (Natural Theatre Company) 104,000 `, Random Dance Company 45,000 Black Mime Theatre Company ` 162,50 0 Ricochet Dance ,Company 22,500 . Black Theatre' .Co-operative 137,300 . ' . ., RJC Dance Theatre 45,000 Cheek By Jowl Theatre Company `- 106,70 0 Russell Maliphant 16,500 _ David Glass New Mime Ensemble" 110,00 0 Sakoba 15,950 English Touring Theatre 511,500 Sampad 14;500 Forced Entertainment Singh Productions 10,000 Theatre-Co-operative - 15,00 0 Small Bones Dance Company 25,000 Forkbeard Fantasy Theatre Company 96,70 0 Srishti 20,000 Gloria Theatre 89,10 0 Suffolk Dance . ' 15,000 . Graeae Theatre. Company -115,060. 673,450 . International Workshop Festival - 26,600, Integrated development funds IOU r -105,500 London Arts Board 15,000 , Kaboodle Productions 86,600 " Southern Arts Board 10,000- Method 8c Madness 516,50 0 West Midlands Arts Board Oily Cart Company 84,500 • . (Chatturang project). - 30,000 Open, "and Theatre Company 100,00 0 ' Yorkshire & Humberside Arts Board 4,000 Out of Joint 65,000 59,000 Oxford Stage Company 534,10 0 Paines Plough 147 000 : Strategic projects ; Association of Dance of, the People, Show 88,10 0 African Diaspora 5,500 . Pop Up. Theatre 95,500 , Dance. Education Officers' Group . 1 ;195 Red Ladder,Theatre Company 132,700 ` Danee,Um6re'lla 5,000 Red Shift Theatre Company _ ' 114,90 0 Dance UK (London Dance Network) -20,000 Right Size , 97,60 0 Foundation for Community Dance 5,000, ' Shared Experience 153,200 '. National Youth Dance Company 10,000 The Sphinx (Woman's Theatre Group) 112,700 ` Yorkshire Dance Centre Tara Arts Group 224 ;700 (British Dance Edition :-98) 8,500 Theatre Centre 277 ;100 55,195 '-Theatre de Complicite 135,706 ,Training Theatre ofThelema . 70' Academy of Indian-Dance. 5,000 ' (QuicksilverTheatre) 114,700 Black Choreographic Initiative 5;000 Trestle Theatre Company 127,000 71 Chisenhale Dance Space, - 7,000 4,961,500 Dance Xchange 4,000 - Totalgrants to funded organisations 25,509,500 : : _ ...... a Greenwich'Danee Agency 4,000 a ., . Holborn Centre for th e Performing Arts 2,000 ' % International Workshop Festival 5,000= Emma Price (traineeship bursary) '' 2,000

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£ £ £ £ National touring: cultural diversity -,Talawa Theatre Company 625 _ Mehtab Theatre 20,588 Kully Thiarai 1,000 Shomari Productions 10,000 119,725 Tamasha Theatre Company 40,529 Small-scale touring 71,117' Banner Theatre Company 6,662 National touring: disability theatre Hijinx Theatre Co-operative 4,18 8 Di Christian - 500 Kneehigh Theatre Trust 26,222 Mind The . . . Gap 39,647 . Mimika Theatre 5,331 Strathcona Theatre Company 41,900 Pilot Theatre 6;89 1 ' 82,047 Theatre Sans Frontieres 29 ;47 1 National touring : experimental 78,765 " . Desperate Optimists 17,955 Small venue developmen t Fecund Theatre 46,066 BAC 7,100 Forced Entertainment Theatre- Blackfriars Arts Centre 9,80 0 Co-operative 45,015 . Brewery Arts Centre 9,800 . Stan's Cafe Theatre 22,238 Cambridge Drama Centre 9,800 131,274 Cornwall Promoters' Consortium 10,000 National touring: mime Dorset Promoters' Consortium 10,000 Brouhaha 14,187 Dovecot ,Arts Centre 9,800 Hoipolloi 5,000 Drill Hall Arts Centre 7,500 London International Mime Festival 67,577 .. The Green Room 9,800 Mime Action Group 33,000 Havant Arts Centre Company 7,000 Peepolykus 13,876 Komedia Productions 9,800 Rejects Revenge 17,200 Leeds Metropolitan University' 9,700 Told By An Idiot 29,502 Live .Theatre Company- 9,800 180,342 Nottingham County Council 10,000 National touring : puppetry Oval House, Christ Church (Oxford) • ` Doo Cot 34,491 United Clubs 7,000 - Dynamic New Animation . 4,420 Pegasus Theatre 9,800 Festival of International Animated Southampton'Community Arts Theatre, Brighton 10,000 Centre Company 9,400 .The Improbable Theatre 28,763 Trinity Centre 8,100 Little .Angel Marionette Theatre 5,000 Trinity Theatre and Arts Association ' 9,000 Norwich Puppet Theatre ' 11,998 -Unity Theatre 9,800• Theatre Rites 26,223 Warwickshire Community Arts 10,000 120,895 Watermans Arts Centre 7,000 .' New national touring 200,000 Antic Hay Productions 6,201 Strategic reserve Association of Professional Theatre Boyden Southwood Associates 14,92 2 for Children & Young People 9,000 British Council 1,500 , Besht Tellers 16,735 Indosa Productions 1,500 Chadwick & Hughes 800 _ Leicester Theatre Trust 2,000 . Nigel Charnock 18,188 The Sphinx 1,500 Clean Break Theatre Company 25,524 - 21,422 Desperate Men 5,000 Theatre writing: bursaries Foursight Theatre 32,855 Biyi Bandele-Thomas 3,500 , Frantic Assembly 6,830 Michael Black 3,50 0 Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company 6,985 Moira Buffini 3,500 Parallel Existence 5,000 Kate Dean 3,50 0 Quondam Arts 12,761 Ray Harrison Graham 3,50 0 ' Ridiculusmus 15,998 Stewart Howson 3,50 0 Talking Birds Theatre Company 12,1,14 Tyrone Huggins 3,500 . Volcano Theatre Company 19,884 Sophia Kingshill 3,500'. Wild Iris Theatre Company 29,311 Tenebris Light 3,500 The Wrestling School 28,000 Jenny Mcleod 3,500 Y Touring 8,086 Penny O'Connor 3,50 0 259,272 Patrick . Prior . 3,500 ' a Regional Black Theatre development Nina Rapi 3,500 Birmingham Repertory Theatre 20,000 Ian Saville 3,50 0 Foundry Productions .2,000 Robert Sherwood 3,50 0 Leeds Theatre Trust 35,000 Jez Simons 3,50 0 Leicester Theatre Trust , 40,000 Peter Straughan 1,50 0 Nottingham Theatre Trust 20,000 Mark Wheatley 3,500 o Sol Rivers 100 Peter Wynne-Willson 3,500 V Ryan Romain 1,000 64,500

Theatre writing: commissions options Theatre writing: national prizes 606 Theatre Company (Penny Black) 1,750 . Ayub Khan-Din 6,000 ARC Theatre Ensemble (Clifford Oliver) 2,500 6,000 Bare Essentials Youth Theatre Theatre .ivriting: resident dramatists (Carrara Waterfield) 2,500 Action Transport Theatre. Company . Besht Tellers (Rebecca Wolman) 2,500 ('Paul Goetzee) 4,000 Black Theatre Co-operative Birmingham Repertory Theatre (Shango Baku) 2,500 (Nick Stafford) -4,000 . David Bridel 1,500 English Stage Company (Martin Crimp) 4,000 Channel Theatre Company, Live Theatre Company (Lee Hall) 4,000 (Steve Gooch) 2,000 Nottingham Theatre Trust choice .works (Claire Luckham) 2,423 (Crispin Whittell) 4,000 Classworks Theatre Company Sheffield Theatres Trust (Judith Adams) 8,000 (Bernard Kops) 2 ;000 Soho Theatre Company (Tanika Gupta) 4,000- Clean Break Theatre Company Tie Break Theatre Company (Rebecca Prichard) 2,000 (Neil Duffield), 8,000 Collaborators (Boris Howarth) 2,000 40,000 Donmar Warehouse'Projects (Lee Hall) •'2,000 Theatre writing: theatre translation scheme Furious Theatre (Laura Bridgeman) - 2,339 Gate Theatre Company (Boris Boskovic) - 80 0 Gate Theatre Company-(Lee-Hall) 2;000 James Greene . 3,500 " Guildford School of Acting Michael Hucks 3,500 (Kay Adshead) 2",000 Strangers ,Gallery (Michael Jacobs) 1,50 0 Hoxton Hall (Pete Brooks, Gilly Fraser) 3,666 Theatre Melange (Steve Gooch) 2,500 Inigo Productions (Eleanor Brown) 1,000 Anthony Vivis 3 1 50 0 ' Interplay Theatre Company 15,300 (Mike Kenny) 2,386 Training Jade Theatre Company (Sarah Woods) 2,500 Sofia Akbar . 10,20 0 Roy Kendall 3,500 _ Annie Castledine 75 0 Mehtab Theatre (Surjit Patar) 2,000 Carl Coleman 76 9 Merseyside Young People's Theatre Giles Croft 500 ' Company (Mark Hollander) 1,350 .. 'Sarah-Esdaile 1,66 6 Neti-Neti Theatre Company Diana Hillier 10,20 0 (Gurpreet Bhatti) 1,700, Dominie Hooper 10,200. _ New Perspectives Theatre Company Pamela Howard 25 0 .(Philip Goulding) 2,500 -James Macdonald 25 0 Nuffield Theatre (Julie Wilkinson) . 1,825 Barbara Matthews, 25 0 Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company Sean, McLevy 10,200 (Phil Smith) 2,339 Ian McNeil 250 , Paines Plough (Sarah Cane) 2,000 Afia Nkrumah 4,16 5 Pentabus Theatre Company Joanna'Read 12,200 (Peter Cann) 2,000 Ian Rickson 25 0 Playbox Theatre (Adrian Mitchell) 2,500 Garry Robson , 10,200 Polyglot Theatre Company Shabnam Shabazi 4,999 (Bernard Kops) 2,500 Joe Sumsion 3,000 Pop Up Theatre (Tim Newton) 2,000 Dawn Walton 83 3 Quondam Arts (David Naphtine) 2,339 Deborah Yhip . 70.0 Red Ladder Theatre Company 81;832 (Maya Chowdhry) 1,750 , Youth arts The Red Room (Leon London) 2,339 National Association of Youth Theatres 24,000 Shabnan Shabazi and Mosaic National Student Drama Festival' 12,000 , Productions (Nick Sutton) 2,000 National Youth Theatre o f Snap People's Theatre Trust Great Britain 20,000 (Michael Wilcox) 2,125 56,00 0 ' The Sphinx (Bryony Lavery) 2,000 Total p'rojectgrants 1,618,787 72 Sweet Desserts Theatre Company : : .: ...... (Charlotte Jones) 2,000 Total Drama 27,128,287 73 Theatre Sans Frontieres (Edward Kemp) 2,339

Theatre Venture (Dolly Dhingra) 2,500 00 Y Touring (Judy Upton) 1,563 Yorkshire Women Theatre Compan y (Akulah Agbami) 1,563 90,296 W

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Education and Training . Research and developmen t Regularly handed organisations Adzido 6,500 Arts and Entertainment African and. Caribbea n, Music .Circuit 5,500 ' Training Council 80,000 Association of British Orchestras 14,24 5 Independent Theatre Council 29,000 , Black Mime Theatre Company 6,50 0 109,000 Cornerhouse' 6,500 Fixed-term funded organisations Dukes Playhouse '6,500 Arts Training Network 45,000 Eastern Touring Agency 4,990 , 45;000 Fabrica 6,500 , Totalgrants tofunded -organisations '154;000 First Movement 6,500 , ...... Foursight Theatre' 5,950 - Agency, development initiative Hull Time Based Arts 6,190 ' Artswork 6,000-1 Kuumba-Project 6,500 Bristol City Council 3,000' Live Theatre Company . 6,300, ' Cleveland Arts 5,380 Midlands"Arts Centre 6,500' ' , Eastern Orchestral Board 5,250` NTC Touring Theatre, Company 6,500 " Essex Artists in Education Service . 6,000' Pallant House Gallery 6,500, Hereford and Worcester Arts Phoenix Dance Company - -,6,500 Education Agency 4,880 - Royal Centre Nottingham Oxfordshire Youth Arts'Consortium 4,000 -City Council 5,60 0 Wiltshire Youth Arts Trust . 4,000 Taps 6,110 38,510 Thamesdown-Dance Studio - , 6,500 Disability and education • Usher Gallery', 6,500 East Midlands Shape 6,000 _ 139,38 5 Ithaca (charity) 6,000 Strategic education projects North West Disability Arts Forum 6,000 Little Garden 4,800 The Photographers' Gallery 3,140 'National Association of " Shape London 6,000. Head Teachers . 2,500 '27,140 National Foundation for ; - Disability employment initiative - Educational Research _ 20,00 0 ' Acta Community Theatre . 16,300 Visual Learning Foundation 15,99 5 Connections Communications Young Persons Concert Foundation 57,59 5 Centre 16,000 100,890 , East Midlands Shape 10,000 Traineeships ' Method & Madness 10,970 Full Circle Arts 155 0 North West Disability Arts Forum 5,000 . 1,550 - Nuffield Theatre 3,500 Total developmentgrarits' ' 577,099 - - 61;770 , Further/higher education Total Education and Training 731,099 Project Arts (B .Tec cours e with artists) 15,156 15,156 Literatur e Lifelong learning Regularly funded organisations National Institute of Adult Ambif" 8,887 Continuing Education 30 -000 Anvil Press _Poetry 62,635 . 30,000 Arvon Foundation' 101,68 0 New technologiesfund Book Trust ' . 64,872 - • AFtec 11,998 _ British,Centre for .Literary Translation 50,84 0 Cleveland-Arts 12,000 Carcanet 'Press 68,93 9 Community Music 10,500 Carcanet Press (PN Review) 17,87 5 Estover Percussion Project 12,000 - Federation of Worker Writers , 22,22 7 Hairnet _ 12,000 Interzone 4,454 r Library Association_ 12,000 . The London Magazine 23,691 . London Musicians' Collective _ 12,000 London Review -of Books 28,104 - Open Eye Gallery 12,000 Password .Books 84 ;70 0 Poetry Society 10,000 Poetry Book Society 49,416 'Seeing the Light 11,500 . -Poetry Society 150,280 a Shinkansen 12,000, Wasafiri 18,00 0 Soft Touch-Co-Op 10,700 .Totalgrants to funded organisations,' 756,600 Vera Productions 12,000 _ . . . . . Walsall Museum and Art Gallery 12,000 Broadcasting 162,698 BBC Education 6,200 Engaged Magazine = 3,250 s Theatre de Complicite 5 ;732 15,182

Community publishing prizes Magazine development, Artists' Agency 2,000 Carcanet Press (PN .Review) 1,00 0 Kensington-& Chelsea, Central'Books •3;00 0 Community History Group 3,000. Dangaroo Press 5,000. 5,000 Metropolitan 3 1 000 . Cultural diversity The ,North 3,000 Arvon•Foundation 1,000• Poetry London Newsletter 3,000 Centre for English .Studies, Printer's Devil 153 000• ' University, of, London 2,000 Rialto 4,000 The Commomvealth_Institute 18,000 37,000 School of Oriental and African Studies 1,000 Small presses - South Bank . Board 11,91-5 The Do-Not Press ; 6,575- University of Leeds ' 500 Headlock Press" -,3,000' ; 34,415 The London Magazine 4,156 Disability projects New Writing North . . 8,20 0 DeaRvorks 3,585 , Password Books 15000 \ Survivors ' Poetry 10,000 Quartet Books 9,312 13,585 Se'rpent's Tail 3,50 0 Education Slow Dancer Press 3,40 0 -Fourth World Educational and Sian Williams 8 1 10 0 • Research Association Trust 1,000 The Women's Press . . 3,250 ' . , National Association of 64,493 ' Writers in Education 10,000 - Translation s Open University 2,945 Agenda•& Editions Charitable Trust ,4,815 _ Threshold Prize 4,850 . Angela Royal Publishing 2,760 " World Book Day Committee 15,000 Atlas Press . 7,863 33,795 Bloodaxe Books -.2,000 Independent initiatives , British Centre for Literary Translation 3,500 57 Productions 5,000 Dedalus '12,25 0 Actionaid ` 1,500 Faber ,& Faber 92 0 Association of Cultural Attaches of The French Institute ' 75 0 Latin America ,,. Spain, and Portugal 4,506 •, Glas-Publishers 3,55 0 Eng►isli Centre of International PEN 1,000 Harbord Publishing 1,785 Federation of Worker Writers •1•,650 Index .On Censorship 5,380 . Institute of Contemporary Arts 3,000 Iron .Press 2,240 ` London Literature Festival King's College- London' 15,199 Development 'Group 10,000 Mare's Nest 3,1311 , Performing Arts Labs 4,230 Middlesex, University Press 3,000- REACH 5,965 Pallas Athene 4,900 Readathon Promotions • 3,000• ' Poems Ori The Underground '- '9,23 3 Society of Authors 16,000= Poetry Society . 3,00 0 University of Reading (WATCH) 6,006 ' . Quartet Books . 2,040 Waterstone 's'Booksellers .' 3,500 'Reality Street Editions -' . 1,66 3 Write Thing 2,500 ' Roehampton Institute 2,000 . 67,845 . SAMPAD '4,200 ' Independent tours 'Serpent's.-fail 5,970 ; Cheltenham Festival of Literature 3,500' Spindlewood 1,870, Amanda Hopkinson 202 _ The Translators'. Association 4,225 ,. ' Six Towns Poetry Festival: 2,300 University Of Hull 1,000 ' The Word Hoard J 3,750 109,244 World Circuit Arts " - 5,000 14,752 Libraries - - Birmingham City Council 6,000 74 De Montfori University 1,00 0 The Library Association 6,500 ' : '75 Well Worth _Reading . -,7,000 20,500 ' - a Libretti a , Martin Riley. 3,00 0 - Rebecca Swift 3,000' Walks On Water (Rose English) 4,000 - a ' 10,000 , .

Grants awarded 1997/98 (continued)

r Writers' awards Music David Almond 7,000 National organisations Carole Angier " 7,000 English National Opera 11,955,00 0 'Jane Duran 7,000 Royal Opera House , 7,994,000 Vicki Feaver 7,000 . 19,949,000 Katherine Frank 7,000 , Regularly funded organisations Alan Garner 7,000 African& Caribbean Music Circuit 199,00 0 Tobias Hill 7,000 Asian Music Circuit 195,00 0 Leigh Kennedy 7,000 Bournemouth Orchestras 1,659,400 Andrea Levy 7,000 British Music Information Robin Robertson 7,000 Centre Trust . 40,000 Neil Rollinson 7,000 City of Birmingham ' Ann Sansom 7,000 Symphony Orchestra . 1,224,000 Martin Stannard 7,000 City of Birmingham Touring Opera 157,90 0 Justin Wintle .' 7,000 Early Music Centre 73,200 Nicholas Wollaston 7,000 -English Touring 'Opera 887,90 0 105,000 Glyndebourne Productions 710,00 0 ,Writers °Prisons ; Halle Concerts Society 1,251,000 , HM Prison Ashwell 4,000 Jazz Services 127,50 0 HM,Prison Channings Wood 2,500 London Philharmonic Orchestra 700,00 0 ' HM Prison Eastwood Park 3,500 London Symphony 'Orchestra 1,165,000 ' HM Prison Low Newton 1,500 National_ Federation Of Music Societies 26,00 0 HM Prison Nottingham 4,000 National Opera Studio 100,00 0 HM Prison Shewsbury 41500 Northern Sinfonia Concert Society 650,80 0 HM Prison Springhill 2,500 Opera Factory .100,000 HMYOI Feltham 4,000 Opera North- 5,034,000 HMYOI Onley 2,500 Philharmonia 700,000 29,000 Royal Liverpool Philharmoni c Writers on Radio Society 1,482,800 Arts Board South West 4,000 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 300,000 Arvon Foundation 995 Sinfonietta Productions . 407,200 Josephine Corcoran 2,000 Society for -the Promotion o f East Midlands Arts Board 4,000, New Music 59,159 Eastern Arts Board 4,000 Sonic Arts Network 11000 Alistair Gentry 2,,500 South Bank Board - 330,00 0 David Hart 2,500 Welsh National Opera 4,201,500 Phil Korbel 2,000 Youth and Music 45,000 London Arts Board 4,000 21,945,359 North West Arts Board 16,000 Challenge funding • Northern Arts Board 4,000 British Music hnformation Centre Trust 20,000 Bridget O'Connor 2,000 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society 50,000 Louise Oliver 2,000 70,000, Katrina Porteous 1,500 Fixed-term funded organisation s South East,Arts Board 4,000 Almeida Theatre Company 50,000 Southern Arts Board 4,000 City of London Sinfonia 50,000 Peter Straughan , 2,000 Grand Union (via London Arts Board) 15,000 West Midlands Arts Board 4,000 London Mozart Players 30,000 Sophie Woolley 2,000 Opera Circus 15,000 Yorkshire & Humberside Arts .Board 4,000 Pimlico Opera 20,000 71,495 Modern Music Theatre Troupe 15,000 • Writers' residencies National Youth Jazz Orchestra- - 12,600 Bishop Grosseteste College 8,000 ' Orchestra of St John's Smith .Square 25,000 • Northern Arts Board 5,000 Sinfonia 21 40,000 -University of Warwick 10,000 Sound Sense 25,000 - The Wordsworth Trust ._, 5,000 Women in Music 30,000 ' Yorkshire & Humberside Arts Board 5,000 327,600 33,000 0o Writers on Tour a - 01 Man Mela Theatre Company 6,000 . s 6,000 Total projectgrants ' 670,306 , y ...... Total Literature 1,426,906

Fixed-term honied organisations Partha Sarathi Mukherjee 4,000 , Jazz/nei p music ensembles Positve Cultural Promotion 4,500 Apollo Saxaphone Quartet Propaganda/ Jungle- Renclez-Vou s (via North West Arts Board) 3,000 Productions 5,00 0 Black Voices Orphy Robinson -4,50 0 (via West Midlands .Arts Board) _ 8,000 Samudra 4,000, , Brunel Ensemble Sangoma Sounds 4,500 (via Arts Board South West) 5,000 Santana Mongoley and Les Zaza 4,500 Cambridge Modern Jazz Club 5,000 Sasa Music _ 5,00 0 Cambridge New Music Players Shiva Nova 4,000 (via Eastern-Arts Board) 5,000 Somo Somo Music Promotion 5,00 0 Composers' Ensemble Taxi Pata Pata African Arts 2,000 (via London Arts Board) 5,000 Gail Thompson 1,00 0 Creative Jazz Orchestra Timbala 4,000 , (via North West Arts Board) 12,000 Umoya Creative Productions 10,00 0 Croydon Clock Tower- ' Vetma Records and Promotions 5,000 , (via London Arts Board) 3,0.00- Wilf Walker 9,500 Ensemble Bash (via London Arts Board) 5,500 Womad Foundation 2,000 Jazz Moves (via London Arts Board) 5,000. Cyroy Zedekiah 1,500 - Jazz Umbrella (via London Arts Board) 7,000 Zila 5,00 0 Kokoro (via Southern Arts Board) 7,500 179,561 Meltdown (via Southern Arts Board) 6,000 Artists in residenc e Northern Arts Board (Breaking Bournemouth Orchestras 5,000 Boarders scheme) 2,500 East .of England Orchestra 5,000 Psappha (via North West Arts Board) 7,500 Halle Concerts Society 8,000 Shiva Nova (via London Arts Board) 10,000 Northern-Sinfonia,Concert Society 10,000 , Smith Quartet (via London Arts Board) 5,000 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society 5,000 "• , Tomorrow's Warriors - 6,000 Sinfonia 21 7,500 _ Ultrasound (via Arts Board South West) 6,000 40,500 Yorkshire & Humberside Arts Board' Bedford residency ` (Breaking Boarders Scheme) 2,500 " Philharmonia - 20,00 0 116,500 20,000 Other funded organisations Early music National Music Day Events 40,000 Bath Festivals Trust 1,73 3 40,000 Beverley .Early Music Festival 2,000 Total handed organisations 42,448,459, Blackadder Brass 3,500...... Brook Street Band" . 2,000 African, Caribbean and Asian music Cambridge Music Promotions 4,5000 Alafia 3,500 Carolinian Consort 4,000. Arts Versa 5,000 Concordia 3 ;38 0 Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan 3,000 Consort of Musicke 2,000 Caribbean Carnival Extravaganza 4,500 Dartington International Casa Latina Allstars 4,000' Summer School 6,000 Chinese Cultural Centre 5,000 Earl of Rochester Festival . 1,000 " Ebony Steelband Trust 5,006 , Ex Cathedra 5,000 EI'man Records 1,500 Fiori Musicali 9,000 Ethiopian World Federation Full Circle World Music Association- -3,750 Incorporated 3,000 London Bach Society 3,000 Eye of Shiva 3,000 London Handel Festival 3,000 Far Eastern Arts 5,000 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 6,000 . Inter Arts Koni 3,000 Musical Offering 4,000 Ital Dub Band 4 ,500 New. Chamber Opera 4,000 . Limpopo Club 500 Norfolk and Norwich Festival 6,000 Maha 2,000 ' Spiialfields Festival 4,000 76 Mala 2,000 Wear Valley Distict Council _ 2,500 . Malik Sarnia Ms 5,000 West Midlands Region Early 7 7 " Matters Musical 5,000 Music Consortium 4,000 Medicine Productions 5,000 Wren Music 2,500 Mensa Cultural Arts 5,000 . York Early Music Festival 5•,000 a Multi Asian Arts 2,061 , Yorkshire Baroque Soloists , 3,000 N'reach 5,000 . 94,86 3 Ojama Productions 5,000 Folk music _ o Oriental Arts '3,000 Folkworks . 20,000 Orquesta La Clave 5,000 20,000 U

Grants awarded 199 .7/98 (continued )

Improvised music touring Huddersfield Contemporary Music ' . Allied Talent Agency 2,700, Festival (James Clarke) 1,500 Appleby'Jazz 4,000 ' Intern ational .Guitar Festival Bath Festivals Trust 17,500 (Deidre Gribbin) 550 John Bisset 2,700 ' . International Guitar Festival, Cheltenham International Jazz Festival 18,000 (Gordon McPherson)' 294 Elton Dean 4,250 . International Guitar. Festival (Terry Riley) 744 Paul Dimmall 6,000 Joyful Noise (Steve Williamson) -2,500 . Viv Dogan Corringham ' 1,900 Stephen Kovacevich (Stephen Montague) 1,500 .Eccentric Management . 6,000, Oliver Lewis (John Pickard) - •600 Graham Halliwell 1,100 London International jazz Festival Klinker Promotions 2,400' . (Graham Collier) 3,000 Lammas Music 6;500 London International Jazz Festival John Lloyd 2,000 (John Surnam) , .1,500 Geraldine Monk . . 1,500 London International Jazz Festival Milan Lad Band 6,000 (Peter King) 1,500 - Phil Minton 2,100 London Symphony Orchestra = ' Julian Nicholas ; 4,250(Michael Berkeley) 2,060 Nod Knowles Productions .4,500 Lyric Quartet (Gavin Bryars) 2,000 - Steve Noble 1,400 ' Maggim Quartet (James MacMillan) 1,500 -Slam Productions . 2,700 -Opus 20(Olando Gough) 1,560 Theo Travis 2,400. Serious (Iain Ballamy) 2,000 Anthony Wood 2,400 . -,-Serious (Colin Towns) .1,500 Nikki Yeoh 6,000 Serious (Egberto Gismonti) 1,500 ` 108,300 Catherine Seymour Company London-based chamber orcbestras ' ' (Paul Archbold) 3,500 Ambache Chamber Orchestra - '• Shobana Jeyasingh (Michael Gordon) 3,000' and Ensemble -5,000. Sinfonia 21 (Robin Holloway) 2,500 ' London Festival Orchestra 5;000 Soho Jazz Festivals (Mo Nazam)' " 2,500 London Musici 5,000 Sonic Arts Network (Ansuman Biswas) 1,500 New; London Orchestra 5,000 Sonic Arts Network (Nye Parry) 1,000 •Orchestra of St John's Smith Square 5;000 Sonic Arts Network (Ben Higham) , 1,000 25;000 Sonic Arts Network (Ewan Stefani) 500 Music and disability, Sonic Arts Network (Andrew Lewis)- 1,000 Enabling for Music 1,500 Sonic Arts Network, (Adrian Moore) 1,000 , ' Heart 'n' Soul 15,000 Srishti (Keith Waite)" . 1,500 Shape London_ 9,000• Tabularisa Arts (Inder Matharu). 1,500 Share Music Trust 3,000 Theatre Works (John Lunn) 2,500 Sound Sense , . -10,000'. Trio Gemelli (Hugh Wood) 750 Stream Records 1,200 Triptych (Colin,Riley) ' . . 850 '. 39,700 Union Dance Company (Tunde Jegede) 3,500 . Music commissions Unity Theatre (Nick Purnell) 1,000 ' Apartment,House (Michael Finnissy) 2,800 Yorkshire Promoters' Group Irvine Arditti (Brian Ferneyhough) .. 1,500: (Graham Firkin) 3,560 Asian Music Circuit (Wajahat Khan) 3,000; 104,228 Basbwe Education Trust (Ilona Sekacz) 2,000, Opera/music. theatre development Leon Enrique Bosch' (Paul Patterson) 3,000 Aldeburgh Foundation 10,000 . Bottled at the Source (Jane Gardner), .1,000 Base Chorus- - 3,000 Jane Chapman (John Palmer) 1,500 'Broomhill Trust 25,000 Cheltenham International Buxton Opera Festival , 13,500 Jazz Festuival (Tony Coe)- . 2,500 Classical Adventures 10,000 City.of.London Sinfonia - Dartington International -Summe r (Nigel Osborne), 3,500 School 61000 Claire Russ Ensemble (Natasha Barrett) 3,000 - Grand,Union 8,000 Clod Ensemble (Paul Clark) 500- ` Lee and Dawes 5,000 - Coma (Philip Cashian) 3;000 • Modern Music Theatre Troupe 10,000 - Coma (Julian Johnson) 1,600 Music Theatre Wales , - 13,000 Connaught Artists Management Norfolk and Norwich Festival 8,000 a (David Matthews) 1,500 Opera and Music Theatre Forum 5,000 English Horn Trio (Sally Beamish) '440 , Opera Circus 10,000 - English National 'Opera Operate 5,000 , w (Mark Anthony~Turnage) ' 10,000 Pegasus Opera Company 15,000 "Enigma Music (Segon Lee-French) 1,600 Pirhlico'Opera 3,060 , s Gothic Voices (Bayan Northcott), 500 Salisbury Festival , ;15,000 U ' Gould Piano ,Trio (Judith Bingham) . 3,000 ' Theatre Works- -2,590 ' 167,090

£ £ L £ Period instrument ensembles_ Touring ' Avison Baroque ,Ensemble -20,000 'Regularly funded organisations ' Early Music Centre- _ 30,000• Royal Shakespeare• Company. . 816,500 English Concert 15,000 Royal National . Theatre -365,000 , Gabrieli Consort And Players-• - 17,000 1,181,500 -Hanover Band 18,000 . Totalgrants to funded organisations . 1,181,500 • King's Consort 17,000 ...... New, Queen's Hall Orchestra 16,000 -Audience developmen t Orchestra Of The Age Arts Marketing .Hampshire 1,400 'Of Enlightenment 18,000 Arts:Marketing Warwickshire ' 3,650- 151,000 Leicester Arts Centre 1,500 Recordings Max : Marketing the Arts ' . - EI'man Records 750 .1 in;Oxfordshire 1,500 750 Midlands Arts Marketing 26,505 Strategic research projects Orchard Theatre, Dartford 1,850 Africa Oye! • 2,250 Team 10,000 _ African & Caribbean Music Circuit -7,000 ' Theatre Royal (Norwich) Trust 2,000, Almeida Theatre Company 6;000 Theatrical Management'Associatioi 10,000 " -British Federation of Brass Bands - - 15,000 Welsh National Opera 8,500 Collins'Classics .'15,000 66,905; ' . ` Coma , 16,610 Contemporary music network , English National Opera 3,000, Ah Um , • 38,386- ` ` Folkworks 3;000 Asian Music Circuit 27,827 Juju Club 8,000 Ensemble Bash 10,390 John Muir 1,500 London Musicians"Collective 32,000 " Northern Arts Board 5,000' Nod Knowles Productions -42,000 ' Performing Right Society . 1,700 Richard Oyarzabal Projects - _ 1 6,000 South East Arts Board , 3,000 Serious 164,000 s 87,060' Wilf Walker . 2,300 Training/youtb arts 322,903 - Association of British Orchestras' 5,000 Culturally diverse drama development . British Federation of Young Choirs 6,000 " Wilf Walker 5,000 British Youth Opera 8,500 5,000 - • ' Clonter Opera for All.' 2,750 Billet projects . Music for Youth 4,000 English National Ballet 170,000 , National Youth Brass Band ` Scottish Ballet 189,'147 - of Great Britain 4,409 359,147 National Youth Choir 3;500 Dance projects - National Youth' Music,Theatre 7,000 Arc Dance Company 5 1000 National-Youth Orchestra' 12,500 Dance City 1,500 National Youth Wind Orchestra 4,500 Dance Umbrella , 68,000' = 58,159 Fifth Amendment 28,000 Total developmentgrants 1,096,211 Mature Dancers Project 25,000 - ....'.., : ...: Nottingham Theatre Trust 24,500 Total Music 43,544,670 Phoenix Dance Company 32,050 'Sadler's Wells Trust 65,000 . Shobana Jeyasingh 14,818 ; Siobhan Davies Dance,Company' 26,972 " Suffolk Dance 20,265 V-Tol' 5,000 316,105 Disability projects Method'& Madness 7,500 7,500 78 Draima projects British Council 1,500 79 _ Bury St Edmunds Theatre Management .3,413 ~. Clear Day, Productions . 64,602, a Communlcado Theatre Company -26,677, , Cultural Industry 17,320 . English Shakespeare Company w International 26,000

Grants awarded 1997/98 (continued )

. . £ £ -C £ Fifth Amendment 12,000 Musicon 6,270.0 0 Foundry Productions 2,000 Nod Knowles Productions 27,750.0 0 Imaginary Forces 71,960 ' Nottingham County Council 25,000.0 0 Magnificent Theatre Company 53,927 Nottingham Theatre Trust 16,000 .0 0 Network .Consortium 7,000 Oxford Contemporary Offshore International Music Festival- 13,500 .00 Cultural Projects 47,885 Oxford Playhouse 30,000:0 0 Out of Joint 197,882 Poole Arts Centre 29,000.00 Rebbeck Penny 27,925 Salisbury Festival 15,000 .0 0 Royal National Theatre 36,135, Strode Theatre 9,000.0 0 Royal Shakespeare Company- 7,000 Turner Sims Concert Hall 17,500 .0 0 Teata Fahodzi '3,300 Tyne Theatre Trust ., 30,000.0 0 Theatre Centre 45,312 Victoria Theatre - Halifax 20,000.0 0 Theatre de Complicite 57,915 'Wakefield Theatre Roya! an d Theatrical Management Association 2,420 Opera House 30,000.0 0 Thelma Holt Ltd 179,613 Wycombe Arts Management 30,000.0 0 Touring Consortium 54,870 565,480 Touring Partnership. 88,981 Total developmentgrants 3,393,503 , Whirligig Theatre 44,363 ...... :...: 1,080,000 Total. Touring 4,57 5_ ,00 3 International projects ' Brighton Festival Society 75,000 Fifth Amendment 33,830 Visual Arts. Nottingham Playhouse 11,000 Regularly funded organisations 119,830 Arnolfini Gallery , 345,000 Large-scale opera touring Free Form Arts Trust 65,000 , Opera North 172,500 Ikon Gallery 378,000 Scottish Opera 164,833 inIVA 512,515, 337,333 Museum of Modern Art (Oxford) 424,000 Opera/music theatre projects Serpentine Gallery 328,000 Birmingham Contemporary Whitechapel Art Gallery 541,000 Music Group 20,000 2,593,51 5 Classical Adventures 10,000 Fixed-term-funded organisations Gogmagogs 8,000 Architecture Foundation 11000 0 Heart 'n' Soul 5,000 Artec 30,000 Hub 3,800 Artic Producers Publishing Company 32,000 Jigsaw Music Theatre 23,000 Autograph 62,000 Modern .Music Theatre Troupe 5,000 Axis 50,000 Music Theatre London 55,000 Book Works London 15,006 - ' Music Theatre Wales 13,000 Contemporary Art Society 30,000 Opera Circus 15,000 Cornerhouse 30,000 Opera Theatre Company 16,500 Creative Camera 54,000 Pimlico Opera - 25,000 Engage 25,000 Shiva Nova 14,000 Foundation for Art & 213,300 Creative Technology ' 27,000 Vcnne and promoter development Film & Video Umbrella 58,000 Barrow Borough Council 22,880 National Artists' Association - 20,600. Bath Festivals Trust 15,000, Public Art Forum '15,000 , Birmingham Repertory Theatre 23,000 Royal College of Art 60,000 Blackpool Grand Theatre 14,750 Visual Arts and Galleries Association 25,000 - Bluecoat Arts Centre 15,700 643,000 Cambridge Corn Exchange - 30,000 . Totalgrants to funded organisations 3,236,51 5 Central Theatre Chatham 9,250 : ...... Eastern Orchestral Board 10,000 Artists' film and video educatio n Everyman Theatre. 20,800 British Film Institute 3,78 2 Farnham Maltings Association 14,000 Foundation for Art & Huddersfield Contemporary Creative Technology 7,650 - a Music Festival 15,000 London Filmmakers' Co-operative 2 1 100 a Kirklees Theatre Trust Jayne Pilling 3,500 n (Lawrence Barley Theatre) 24,550 Vertigo UK 3,000 e Leicester Theatre Trust 7 000 00 20 032 w Manchester International 0 Theatre Consortium 45,000 .00

0 Marlowe Theatre - Canterbury 9,530 .00 U

Artists' film and video national touring j Artists liaison scheme exhibitions/distribution City .Raeing 1,500 Arnolfini Gallery 8,100, Create Connect 2,500 Bluecoat Gallery 3,620 Education and Training Project, 3,000 Chisenhale Gallery 14,800 Florence Trust Studios 1,500 Film & Video Umbrella 19,500 National Association for - Foundation for Art & Fine Art Education , 3,000 Creative Technology 55,000 South East Arts Board 8,000 _ Hotbath Gallery 2,000 19,500 . Hull Time Based Arts 15,000 Artists resources centre Institute of Contemporary .Arts 10,000 Arts Board South West , 3,000 Pervaiz Khan - 2,500 Axis 1,00 0 London Electronic 'Arts 7,000 Cubits Artists 1,000 ' London Filmmakers' Co-operative 10,000 The Laboratory at the Ruskin Schoo l Matt's Gallery 15,000, of Drawing & Fine Art . 5,970 Pandaemonium Festival, 2,500 . Susan .Morris 2,000 Pix 22,500 National Artists' Association 3,000 Proboscis 14,495 Shave,International -Artists' Workshop 4,000 Signals 3,000 19,970 Vertigo UK 2,500 Disability Viva 8 Festival 5,000 -, Acme Housing Association 7,550 ' 212,515 The Art House 10,00 0 Artists' film and video production aivards London Disability Arts Forum 4,000 Bewitched 15,000 21,550 Nick Collins 3,956 Education initiatives . Forced Entertainment BBC Education 5,00 0 " Theatre Co-operative 5,000 Birmingham Institute of Art & Design 1,20 0 Nicky Hamlyn 3,955 Brighton Media Centre : 10,00 0 Illuminations Films 6,560 . -Engage 18,500 - _Anastassios Kavassis 3,000 Alice -Evans 9,500 Annette Kennerley 3,000 Germinations Europe 7,00 0 Karen Mirza and Brad Butler 7,500 Jubilee Arts 11,500- Carol Morley 11,606 Middlesex University 12,000 - Chris Newby 16,500- Mount .Pleasant Media Workshop 5,50 0 Sarah Pucill 15,000 University of Brighton 8,00 0 William Raban - 1,670 88,20 0 Jane and Louise Wilson 10,000 Exhibition researc h 102,747 Angel Row Gallery 676 Architecture initiatives Arnolfini Gallery 4,500 " Architectural. Association 1,000 Artec 3 1400 Bristol Centre for the Advancement The Arts Catalyst 5,02 0 of Architecture & RIBA _ 6,000 Autograph 4,900 Building Centre Trust 1,000 David Bailey 4,900 Camden Arts Centre 4,000 Cambridge Darkroom . ` 4,000 Cornerhouse 5,000 Eddie Chambers 3,32 0 Design Museum 12,000 Cornerhouse 4,78 5 Ewan Forster and Christopher- Heighes 1,000 , Clare Cumberlidge 3,370 Fashion Architecture Taste 31000 Melissa Feldman 2,42 0 Institute of Contemporary Arts 9,500' Marina Fokidis 3,700 • Kettle's Yard Gallery 3,000 Amanda Hopkinson 4,996 North Kent Architecture Centre 1,500 , Angus Howie - 2,32 0 Photographers' Gallery 2,000 Ikon Gallery 3,960 Royal Institute of British Architects 4,000 Impressions Gallery 5,000 Society of Black Architects 2,091 Mead Gallery 2,391 80 Strangely Familiar 2,000 Public Art Development Trust 5,000 Studio 5 3,820 -Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art 1,513 81 Twentieth Century Society 1,000 Serpentine Gallery 4,870 University of Brighton 3,000 Shearman/Trevor Partnership 4,750 00 a Wordsearch Communications 4,000 Sheffield City Museums 3,852 ° 68,911 South London Art Gallery 3,430 Roger Wollen 4,432 Women's Art Library, 3,409 " 0 94,914 .

Grants awarded 1997/98 (continued )

First-time-publications Regional venue partnerships Black Dog Publishing 4,000 Arts Board South West 1,980 Book Works London 5,000 London Arts Board 2,000- . Dinosaur Press ° 2,000 South- East Arts Board .; 38,000 - Film & Video Umbrella , 4;660 Southern Arts Board 636 Hales Gallery -4,000 West Midlands Arts Board 53,400 _ Ikon, Gallery 5,303 Yorkshire & Humberside Arts Board 33,000, • Lighthouse Arts & Training 7,850 129,016 Matt's Gallery 8,000 Site specific works October Gallery Trust 6,000 Artingel Trust 5,000 Panch'ayat Partnership 500 6,000 , Password Training 3,400 Strategic initiatives ; Tlie Showroom 3,556 African and Asian Visual Artists' Archive 4,000 South London Art Gallery_ 6,752 Arlis 1,760 Working Press 760 Axis 10,000 61,721 BNl Visual Arts Project 3,000` Magazines The British School at'Rome 5,000 Art Monthly 24,000 Business Design Centre _ 7,000 Audio Arts 18,000 City Racing 3,500, ` Durian Publications 19,000 Dewi Lewis Publishing , 12,759 " - Everything Magazine, 3,000 Kettle's Yard Gallery 2,605 Kala Press .' -40,000, . " The .Laboratory at the'Ruskin Schoo l Photography Workshop (Edinburgh) 9,716 of Drawing & Fine Art- 5,000 Untitled 10,000 Mute%Metamute 2,200 Women's Art Library 21,000 National Artists Association 5,000 144,716 The National Life Story Collection 2,000 - Marketing Northern Arts Board -2,000 Arts about Manchester 6,000 Desa Philippi 2,500 _6,006 Photo 98 20;000 Photography touring Redundant Technology Initiative 3;300 Artec 40,000 Shoreditch Foto Biennale 5,000 Impressions Gallery 8,300 Surrey Institute of Visual Art 535 , 'Site Gallery 32,500 Sussex Arts Marketing ' 2,000 Viewpoint Photography Gallery' 25,000 Team ; 21500 Watershed Trust 10,500 Triangle Arts Trust . 18,000 - Zone Gallery 25,000 Visual Arts Consultancy 8& Research - - 1,000 141,300 Women's Art Library 3,000 Photography training 123 ;659 .-, Artec 5,000 Symposia, Foundation for Art & ' Artic' Producers "Publishing Company 1,200; , Creative Technology' 41940 ' The Arts Catalyst ; 2,99 7 ' In'stitute'of Education 15,000 . Bath Festivals Trust 2,500' Photo 98 5,000- Cambridge Darkroom 2,293 Seeing the Light 20,000 Camerawork 2846 - 49,940 David Cohen L,500 Public art initiatives Engage 1,500 Arts Board South West 1,500 Ikon Gallery 3,000 " Feary and Heron Architects, '. 3,000 Institute of Contemporary Arts, , 3,000 - North West Arts Board 4,000 - John Hansard Gallery 1,470 Photo 98 5,006 The Organisation for Visual Arts 3;000 Public Art Forum 1,000 Platform 3,000 South East Arts Board 41000 Shake International Artists' Workshop 1,332 18,500 Southern Band 3,000 Regionalgallery scheme University College London 3,000 Bradford Art Gallery' 20,000 University of Warwick Nottingham, Castle Museum' The World Beyond 2000 2,000 " & Air Gallery 15,000 39,45 0 Q Oldham Museum and Art Gallery 31,000 a Towvner Art Gallery 15;000 Walsall Museum'& Art Gallery 35,000 Wolverhampton Art Gallery 1000 w 131,000

Touring exhibitions Visual arts/photography publications ' Jeremy Akerman . 10,000- . African and-Asian Visual Artists , Archive 4,000 ; David Bailey, 5;570 Artec 3,500 - .Bluecoat Gallery 15,000, Audiorom 4,000 Camden Arts Centre 15,000 - Backspace - • 5',000 _ Camerawork 5,726 Chora Institute for Architecture Castlefield Gallery 2,720 , .. and Urbanism 4,000 Eddie Chambers ' 8,000 Curtain Road Arts 4,072 The Copy' 20,046" Escape- 4,500 De La Warr Pavilion 9,860 Everything-Magazine 4,000 • Film & Video Umbrella 6,000 Film &-Video Umbrella 4;12 0 Fourth Dial Art 8,000 'Furnace 4,884 Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt . 5,000 Hull Time -Based Arts 5 ;00 0 Kent Institute of Art and Design 5,545 Ikon Gallery 4,000. , . Thc ,Laboratory at the Ruskin School Impressions Gallery . 8,000 + of Drawing & Fine Art 12,500 ' . Gavin Jantjes _ 4,000 -Milch Gallery_ 9,190 Metronome ' 3,00 0 • New Contemporaries' 19,360 Mongrel . 13,22 2 ' Norwich School of Art ,& Design 20,000 Mute/Mefamute 15,000' ' The Organisation for Visual Arts 10 1500 National Museum of Photography, _ Royal Albert•Memorial Museum 3,450 Film & Television 13,71 8 Southampton City Art Gallery_ 6,000. Photo 98 . 1 12,92 1 Triangle Arts Trust 3,375_ - The Photographers' Gallery 12,81 4 Tullie House 3,500 Photoworks 7,74 6 Viewpoint Photography Gallery 10,000 Saffron Books 3,547 - 214,336 " Scarlet Press 5 ;842 ' Travel Scolar Press 2 ;00 0 Artec 1,500 Serpentine Gallery -4,00 0 ' P Bonaventura ; S Craddock Shoevegas 5,000 . ` and S Farthing 1 ;000 Shoreditch Foto Biennale 5,000 J "r Cairri Gallery .-' _ - 1,000 ' -" Site Gallery • `5,000 - - - + Camerawork ' 1,432 Slade'Centre. for'Electronic'Media 3,746 . . Chisenhale Gallery 640 . South 'London Art Gallery,, . 2,500 City Racing 834 Viewpoint Photography Gallery 10,78 9 tliidree Cooke 1,435 188,92 1 Foundation for Art & Total projeogrants' 1,924,17 2 Creative Technology 514 : ...... Fourth Dial Art ` 1,260 _ Total Visual Arts 5,160,68 7 1 Ipswich Museums and'Galleries 1,500 - Iris (Women's Photography Project) 1,50 0 -Laing Art Gallery-' . 867 TOTAL GRANTS AWARDED . 123,672,313 - John Leslie 60 7 Lovebytes 80 0 Mitch Gallery 54 0 New Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, . 1 ;500 ' ' The Organisation for Visual Arts 1,500 v . . - South London Art Gallery 1,230 . , Spacex Galle'ry, 1,500 Walsall Museum & Art Gallery . 1,115 ` ' 22,274 -

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Interim funding schem e

Schedule 2 to the Accounts For the period to 31 March 199 8

Dance and Drama Academy of Live and Recorded-Arts Ltd 36,88 5 Arts Educational Schools- - • 54,90 0 Birmingham School of Speech . Training & Dramatic Art . Ltd 27,81 7 Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Ltd' 26,932 - Central School of Ballet Charitabl e r Trust Ltd _ 22,54 1 Contemporary Dance Trust 21,199 ` Doreen Bird College,of Performin g Arts Ltd 46,962% Elmhurst Ballet School `18,03 3 English National Ballet School 20,931 - Guildford School'of Acting 61,44 1 Hammond School Ltd 5,76 3 Laban Centre Ltd 94,72 5 Laine Theatre Arts Lid ' 89,17 8 London Academy of Music an d Dramatic Art Ltd 25,18 9 London Studio, Centre 135,00 8 Merseyside Dance & Drama ; Centre Ltd 20,337 , Mountview Theatre School Ltd 99,15 0 Northern Ballet School 40,69 8 "Oxford School of Drama Ltd 8,489, . Royal Academy of Dancing 5,32 9 The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ' 27,22 5 Webber Douglas Academy o f • Dramatic Art 18,75 0

Total Dance and r Drama grants awarded 907,482 -

V e , Distribution of Arts Council Lottery award s

March 1995-March 1998

Schem e Numbe r ...... Capital 1,79 7 Film production 9 7 A4E Express 5,35 7 A4E Main 19 1 Dance and Drama students 22 college s Stabilisation 14

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U The Arts Council of England Lottery distribution accounts

1 April 1997-31 March 199 8

Introduction Review of the yea r The Arts Council of England is a registered charity, Charit y The Council's principal activity is the support of the arts . Registration Number 1036733 . It was established by Roya l To this end it makes Lottery grants to arts organisations . Charter on 1 April 1994, taking over those responsibilities i n The Chief Executive's report and the National Lottery Annua l England previously discharged by the Arts Council of Grea t Report provide further details of its policies and activities . Britain . New Lottery-funded initiatives continue to include scheme s The address of the principal office is 14 Great Peter Street, providing revenue funding . Both the Arts for Everyone Express London, SW1P 3NQ . and Arts for Everyone Main schemes are aimed at a divers e range of amateur and professional groups, and have attracte d The Council receives grant-in-aid from the Department fo r a large number of applications . The second part of the pilot Culture, Media and Sport and is one of the bodies designate d stabilisation scheme has provided help toward the solutions fo r to distribute funds from the National Lottery by the Nationa l finding problems in professional arts organisations highlighte d Lotterv etc . Act 1993. in the first part of the pilot scheme . The Interim Funding scheme for dance and drama has enabled 539 students to Grant-in-aid is distributed by the Council in support of the arts take up places at 22 colleges in England . in accordance with the objectives set out in the Royal Charter . Funds from the National Lottery are distributed in accordanc e A commitment to diversity - geographical and artistic - remain s with directions issued under the Act by the Secretary of Stat e a feature of all Arts Council Lottery initiatives . for Culture, Media and Sport. Financial results The Council works at arm's length from Government and ha s The accounts for activities funded from the National Lottery the status of a non-departmental public body. As such it i s Distribution Fund (set out on pages 91 to 99) show a decreas e regulated in accordance with financial memoranda issued by the in Accumulated Funds of £181 .083m . The Council considers Secretary of State . Accounts for grant-in-aid and Lottery are what level of forward commitments of Lottery Funds is prepared separately in accordance with accounts directions . prudent and appropriate in the light of past and projecte d income flows which has resulted in an Accumulated Fund s Deficit of £211 .383m in the current year. The Arts Counci l monitors the level of commitments to ensure they are kep t within the established benchmarks . Membership of Counci l The Members of the Arts Council during the year and up to the signing of the accounts were :

Date of Date of Member Appointment/Reneival Resignation/Retirement

Lord Gowrie PC (Chairman) April 1994 April 199 8 Gerry Robinson (Chairman from May 1998) January 1998 David Reid (Vice-Chairman) April 1995 March 199 8 Derrick Anderson June 1998 David Astor CBE April 1998 June 199 8 David Brierley CBE November 1997 June 199 8 renewed June 1998 Deborah Bull June 1998 Richard Cork April 1995 March 199 8 Professor Ray Cowell April 1996 June 199 8 Professor Brian Cox CBE January 1997 June 199 8 Charles Denton August 1996 June 199 8 Professor Christopher Frayling April 1995 March 199 8 renewed June 199 8 Antony Gormley June 199 8 Maggie Guillebaud May 1997 October 199 7 Sir Ernest Hall OBE DL May 1997 October 199 7 Sir David Harrison CBE May 1997 March 199 8 Gavin Henderson May 1997 June 199 8 Thelma Holt CBE May 1997 June 199 8 Anish Kapoor June 199 8 Councillor George Loggie April 1998 June 199 8 Joanna MacGregor June 199 8 Lady MacMillan December 1996 June 199 8 Professor Andrew Motion April 1996 June 199 8 renewed June 1998 Rod Natkiel November 1997 June 199 8 Stephen Phillips May 1997 June 199 8 Trevor Phillips May 1997 June 199 8 Usha Prashar CBE May 1997 December 199 7 Christopher Price November 1997 June 199 8 Clive Priestley CB April 1996 April 199 7 Roger Reed April 1996 June 199 8 Stella Robson May 1997 March 199 8 Prudence Skene April 1996 June 199 8 renewed June 1998 Robert Southgate April 1996 October 199 7 John Spearman December 1996 June 199 8 Hilary Strong June 1998 Professor Stuart Timperley April 1998 June 1998

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Membership of the Lottery Advisory Pane l Other matters The Members of the Council's National Lottery Advisory Courts 8- Co of 440 Strand, London, WC2R OQS were Panel during the year were as follows : the bankers for the Arts Council of England unti l 1 December 1997 . Prudence Skene (Chairman), David Brierley CBE, Dr Nei l Cross, Patty Hopkins, Cleo Laine OBE, Ruth Mackenzie OBE, The Co-operative Bank of 78-80 Corn Hill, EC3V 3N J Paddy Masefield OBE, Tony Pender CBE, Nima Poovaya- became the bankers for the Arts Council of England o n Smith, Sir David Puttnam CBE, Lynette Royle, Keith Harris, 1 December 1997 . Virginia Tandy, Matthew Evans CBE and Tish Francis . The Comptroller and Auditor General of 157-197 Buckingham The members of the Panel were not remunerated for thei r Palace Road, Victoria, London, SW1W 9SP, acts as auditor to services. the Arts Council, and his report is presented on page 90 .

Statement of Council's and Chief Executive' s The Council maintains a register of interests of its members , Responsibilities in relation to financial statement s which is available for public inspection by appointment at th e Under section 35 (2) and (3) of the National Lottery etc . Council's Great Peter Street address . Act 1993, the Council is required to prepare a statement o f accounts for the financial period in the form and on the basi s The Council attempts to abide by the CBI's Prompt Payer s directed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media an d Code, and in particular to pay bills in accordance with contract. Sport, with the consent of the Treasury. The accounts are to In 1997/98 98% of undisputed invoices were paid within a be prepared on an accruals basis and to show a true and fai r 30-day period . view of the Council's state of affairs at the year end and of it s income and expenditure and cash flows for the financial year. The Arts Council is committed to a policy of equality o f The Council is required to : opportunity in its employment practices and continues t o develop a culturally diverse workforce . Twelve percent o f • Observe the accounts direction issued by the Secretar y staff are of non-European descent and three percent of th e of State*, which sets out accounting and disclosure workforce are classified as disabled . The Council's Trainin g requirements, and apply suitable accounting policie s and Development programmes are designed to encourage and on a consistent basi s support all employees in improving performance . In particula r the Council aims to ensure that no potential or actual employe e • Make judgements and estimates on a reasonable basi s receives more or less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, colour, ethnic or national origin, marital status, age , • State whether applicable accounting standards have been gender, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs . followed, and disclose and explain any material departure s in the financial statements The Council ensures that there arc arrangements to promot e effective consultation and communications with all staff . Al l • Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis , departments have regular staff meetings at which matter s unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Council wil l relating to the Council's activities arc discussed and staff continue in operation . are regularly briefed on the matters discussed at senio r management and Council meetings . Meetings of all staff ar e * a copy of iphich is available from the Accounting Officer, held periodically. The Council recognises the trade unio n Arts Council of England, 14 Great Peter Street, London, MSF, with which it has established a procedural agreement; SWI P 3NQ , representatives of management and union meet regularly.

The Accounting Officer for the Department for Culture, Media The chief executive, Mary Allen, resigned in May 1997 . and Sport has designated the Chief Executive as Accountin g The deputy chief executive, Graham Devlin, acted in this Officer for the Council . The relevant responsibilities a s position until the appointment of Peter Hewitt as Chie f Accounting Officer, including the responsibility for th e Executive Oil 9 March 1998 . The title of Secretary-Genera l propriety and regularity of the finances for which the Chie f was changed to Chief Executive by an amendment of th e Executive is answerable and for the keeping of proper records , Charter on 22 April 1998 . are set out in the Non-Departmental Public Bodies ' Accounting Officers' Memorandum, issued by H .M . Treasury.

Year 2000 computer complianc e The Annual Report provides information about the Council' s The Year 2000 problem relates to the inability of most overall financial position . Objective and professional relations computer programs to recognise the transition from 1999 t o are maintained with the National Audit Office which acts as 2000 . The problem may affect not only individual computer s auditor of both the Arts Council's grant-in-aid accounts an d but also automated equipment which contains embedde d its lottery distribution accounts . silicon chips . The Council has established an Audit Committee ; its terms o f The Arts Council considers that it has a responsibility not just reference are in accordance with the Code of Best Practice fo r to ensure that its own equipment is made compliant for 200 0 Board Members of Public Bodies issued by HM Treasury. but also that it provides advice to the Arts Funding System . To this end it has retained KPMG to advise upon the Council 's Post-balance sheet event s own vulnerabilities and how to minimise them . Additionally it On 1 May 1998 Gerry Robinson took up his appointment a s is funding a pilot study at West Midlands Arts Board, th e Chairman of the Arts Council of England . On 17 June th e findings of which will be made available to all the othe r existing Council of 22 members resigned . A new Council , Regional Arts Boards . comprising a total of ten members together with the Chairman , was then appointed . This contains four members of th e The estimated cost of achieving the goal of compliance for th e previous Council plus six new members . Arts Council itself will be quantified as part of the exercise currently being undertaken on its behalf. The new Council is considering the roles and relationships o f both the Council itself and of the Regional Arts Boards wit h The euro the likelihood of the delegation of certain responsibilities fro m The activities of the Arts Council of England arc largel y the former to the latter. At the same time it is proposed to national . Although sonic exposure to transactions in euros i s move towards greater integration of the use of the two source s anticipated, it is not considered that these will initially be of income of the Arts Council, being grant-in-aid and its shar e significant . Financial systems and procedures are being reviewe d of proceeds of the National Lottery. Royal Assent was given to to ensure that they are capable where necessary of dealing i n the Lottery Bill on 2 July which will facilitate this process . Part the new currency. Costs of ensuring compliance in the earl y of this change will involve a review of all regularly ftmde d stages are not expected to be great . organisations. An internal restructuring of the Arts Council wil l also be undertaken to ensure that it is appropriately staffed to Statement on corporate governance fulfil its new duties . Although the Arts Council of England is not required t o comply with the Code of Best Practice published in Decembe r 1992 by the Cadbury Committee on the Financial Aspects o f Peter Hewitt Gerry Robinso n Corporate Governance, nevertheless the Council believes i t Chief Executive Chairman of the Arts should meet the highest standards of corporate governance and Council of Englan d accordingly complies voluntarily with key aspects of the code . 21 July 1998 21 July 1998 Members of the Arts Council are appointed by the Secretary o f State for Culture, Media and Sport for specified terms of office , and are unpaid . Council Members work within a Code o f Practice (based on a Treasury model for non-departmenta l public bodies) which has been agreed with the Secretary o f State . The Chief Executive and staff also work within such a Code of Practice. The Council meets in formal session abou t ten times each year, and it monitors the work of the Chie f Executive and staff. Overall policy is determined by the Counci l itself after due consultation with interested parties, and the Council has a schedule of matters reserved for its own decision , including key points of strategy, policy, resourcing, and staffing . All Council Members have access to the Chief Executive an d senior staff as they require . The Head of Secretariat ensures that the Council follows its established procedures .

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The certificate and report of the Comptroller an d Opinio n Auditor General to the Houses of Parliamen t In my opinion: • the financial statements give a true and fair view of the stat e I certify that I have audited the financial statements on page s of affairs of the Arts Council of England Lottery distribution 90 to 99 under the National Lottery etc . Act 1993. Thes e activities at 31 March 1998 and of the decrease in funds financial statements have been prepared under the historica l available, total recognised gains and losses and cash flows fo r cost convention and the accounting policies set out on page 9 4 the year then ended and have been properly prepared i n accordance with the National Lottery etc . Act 1993 an d Respective responsibilities'of Council, Cbief Executive directions made thereunder by the Secretary of State fo r and Auditors Culture, Media and Sport ; As described on pages 88 and 89 the Council and Chie f Executive as the Accounting Officer are responsible for th e • in all material respects the expenditure and income have bee n preparation of financial statements and for ensuring the applied to the purposes intended by Parliament and th e regularity of financial transactions . It is my responsibility to financial transactions conform to the authorities whic h form an independent opinion, based on my audit, on thos e govern them . statements and on the regularity of the financial transaction s included in them and to report my opinion to you . I have no observations to make on these financial statements .

Basis of opinio n John Bourn I conducted my audit in accordance with Auditing Standard s Comptroller and Auditor General issued by the Auditing Practices Board . An audit includes 24 July 1998 examination, on a test basis, of evidence relevant to th e amounts, disclosures and regularity of financial transaction s National Audit Office included in the financial statements . It also includes an 157-197 Buckingham Palace Road assessment of the significant estimates and judgements made b y London SW1W 9SP the Council and the Chief Executive in the preparation of the financial statements, and of whether the accounting policies ar e appropriate to the Council's circumstances, consistently applied and adequately disclosed .

I planned and performed my audit so as to obtain all th e information and explanations which I considered necessary i n order to provide me with sufficient evidence to give reasonabl e assurance that the financial statements arc free from materia l misstatements, whether caused by error, or by fraud or othe r irregularity and that, in all material respects, the expenditur e and income have been applied to the purposes intended b y Parliament and the financial transactions conform to the authorities which govern them . In forming my opinion I have also evaluated the overall adequacy of the presentation of information in the financial statements .

Income and expenditure accoun t

For the year ended 31 March 1998

1998 199 7 Note L000s LOWS

Share of proceeds from the National Lottery 268,188 240,880 Investment returns on the distribution fior d 25,431 21,22 9 Commitments written bac k 1,007 10 7 Interest receivable 1,818 54 1 Other income 2 1,20 4 45 ...... 297,648 262,802

Grants 9 455,794 344,450 ...... Total grants 455,794 344,45 0

General expenditure : Staff costs 3 2,075 1,036 Other operating costs 4 14,296 9,769 Costs apportioned by grant-in-aid 1 6,566 3,91 4

Total operating costs 22,93 7 14,71 9 ...... : Total expenditure 478,731 359,169

Net resources expended before notional cost s (181,083) (96,367) ...... Notional costs 8 Cost of capital (318) (258 ) Insurance 0 (10) ...... (318) (268 )

Net resources expended after notional costs (181,401) (96,635) ...... Reversal of notional cost s 318 26 8 ...... (Decrease) in Lottery funds 5 (181,083) (96,367 ) ...... Accumulated funds brought forward (30,300) 66,06 7 ...... Accumulated hinds carried forward (211,383) (30,300)

The Council has no recognised gains or losses other than those shown on the income and expenditure statement for the period . There are no discontinued activities .

The note on pages 94 to 99 forsn part of these accounts.

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As at 31 March 1998

1998 199 7 Note £OOOs £OOOs

Fixed assets Tangible assets 6 761 484 ...... 761 484 Current asset s Debtors and prepayments 34 248 Investments : balance in distribution fund 7 368,758 391,26 6 Cash at bank and in hand 5,598 9,770 ...... 374,390 401,284 Current liabilities Grant commitments falling due within one year 9 314,081 214,00 0 Creditors : amounts falling due within one year 751 1,81 5 Due to grant-in-aid 1,476 992 ...... 316,308 216,807

Net current assets (liabilities ) 58,082 184,477 ...... Total assets less liabilitie s 58,843 184,961 ...... Represented b y Grant commitments over one year 270,226 215,261 Reserve s (211,383) (30,300) ...... 58,843 184,961

Peter Hewitt Chief Evecuctive

Gerry Robinso n Chairman of the Arts Council of England

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Cash flow statemen t

For the year ended 31 March 1998

1998 199 7 Note LOOOS LOWS

Operating activities Funds received from the National Lotter y distribution find 316,127 134,14 7 Other cash receipts 1,204 4 Grants paid (299,741) (113,387) Cash paid to and on behalf of employees (2,075) (948) Other cash payment s (21,156) (14,496) ...... Net cash inflow/(outflow) from operating activities 12 (5,641) 5,32 0

Returns on Investments and servicing of finance: Interest receive d 2,016 43 7 ...... Net cash inflow from returns on investments and servicing of financ e 2,016 43 7 ...... Capital expenditure and financial investments Purchase of tangible fixed assets (547) (589) ...... Net cash outflow from capital expenditure (547) (589) ...... Management of liquid resources and financing 0 0 ...... Increase/(decrease) In cash 13 (4,172) 5,168

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1 Accounting policie s d) National Lottery Distribution Fun d Balances held in the National Lottery Distribution Fund remai n a) Basis of accounts under the stewardship of the Secretary of State for Culture , These financial statements arc prepared under the historical cos t Media and Sport. However, the share of these balances convention . The accounts have been prepared in accordanc e attributable to the Arts Council of England is as shown in th e with the accounts direction issued by the Secretary of State fo r accounts and, at the balance sheet date, has been notified b y Culture, Media and Sport, and they meet the requirements o f the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport as bein g the Companies Acts, and of the Statements of Standar d available for distribution by the Arts Council of England i n Accounting Practice/Financial Reporting Standards issued an d respect of current and future commitments (note 7) . The adopted by the Accounting Standards Board, so far as thos e amount attributable to the Arts Council has been treated a s requirements are appropriate . income within these accounts .

Separate accounts have been prepared for the activities funde d e) Taxatio n from the grant-in-aid, in accordance with the directions issue d The Arts Council of England is a Registered Charity (No by the Secretary of State . Consolidated accounts have not bee n 1036733) and is eligible under Income and Corporation Taxe s prepared . Act 1988 to seek from the Inland Revenue exemption fro m taxes on income arising from its charitable objectives . The b) Accruals conventio n Inland Revenue has granted this exemption . Accordingly, n o All income and expenditure is accounted for on a receivable o r taxation has been provided for in these accounts . payable basis except for royalty income which is accounted fo r on a received basis . 0 Pension s The Arts Council provides a defined benefit pension scheme fo r As required by the Secretary of State, a distinction is made in its employees, the costs of which are charged to the income an d respect of Lottery grants between "hard commitments", wher e expenditure account. the Council has made a firm offer of grant which (togethe r with appropriate conditions) has been accepted by the recipient , g) Apportioned cost s and "soft commitments" where the Council has agreed i n The Arts Council incurs indirect costs which are share d principle to fiend a scheme and made an offer, but the offe r between activities funded from grant-in-aid and activitie s and associated conditions have not been accepted . funded from the National Lottery. The Council is required to apportion indirect costs properly between the two activity area s Hard commitments are recognised in the income an d in accordance with good accounting practice . expenditure account, whereas soft commitments arc recognise d by way of note . h) Notional costs In accordance with Treasury guidance: Hard commitments payable within one year of the balanc e sheet date are recognised in the balance sheet as curren t 1. The notional cost of capital is charged in the Income an d liabilities . Those payable more than one year from the balance Expenditure account in arriving at a net incoming/(outgoing ) sheet date arc shown as grant commitments over one year . resources figure . This is reversed so that no provision i s included on the balance sheet. Grant commitments for future years have been entered into taking account of income forecasts provided by the Departmen t 2. The principles of FRED 14 have been adopted for th e for Culture, Media and Sport and taking into account th e 1997/98 accounts and the notional cost of insurance ha s sixth good cause, which includes NESTA and the Ne w not been calculated nor any provision included . Opportunities Fund . These forecasts have been discounte d aggressively and the Council believes that it has taken a ver y conservative view of future income . Nevertheless, it assumes , as a matter of public policy, the continued operation of th e National Lottery.

c) Depreciation and fixed assets Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets finance d by Lottery funds at rates calculated to write off the cost less estimated residual value of each asset systematically over it s expected useful life as follows :

Leasehold buildings - over the life of the lease

Equipment, fixtures and fittings - over four year s

A full year's depreciation is provided in the year of an asset' s acquisition, and none in the year of its disposal .

2 Other income Total Total 1998 1997 £OOOS 40005

Arts contributions received 21 37 Conferences and publication sales 37 8 Film income 1,040 0 Administration contributions 102 0 Othe r 4 0 ...... 1,204 45

3 Staff costs 1998 199 7 £OOOs .£000s

Salaries and wages 1,827 91 8 Employer's National Insurance 144 75 Arts Council Retirement Plan (1994) 104 4 3 ...... 2,075 1,03 6

These costs relate to the Lottery function and its operation for the year .

The Chairman, Council and Lottery Advisory Panel Members are not paid for their services .

An actuarial valuation of the Pension Fund takes place every three years . The last valuation was at 1 April 1996 . On advic e of the actuary, the employer's contribution for 1997/98 was set at 9 .4% (8 .8% 1996/97) . The basis of the calculation is availabl e on request from the Accounting Officer, Arts Council of England, 14 Great Peter Street, London, SW1P 3NQ .

The Scheme is financed by payments by the Council and employees into a trustee-administered fund independent of th e Council's finances. These contributions are invested by a leading fund management company . The net market value of Scheme assets at 31 March 1998 was E25,889,000 .

The average monthly number of employees engaged directly on Lottery activities during the year was made up as follows :

1998 1997

Lottery managemen t 6 6 Operationa l 61 2 1 Administratio n 9 13 ...... 76 4 0

The remuneration of senior employees attributable to the National Lottery was as follows:

Total Lottery 199 8 Number salaries charge Lottery EOOOs C000s proportio n Director of National Lottery 1 49 100% 9 4 Director of Lottery Film 1 44 100% ACE employees earning £40,000 - 49,999 1 49 25 50% 9 5 ACE employees earning £60,000 - 69,999 1 63 32 50% x a

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4 Other operating costs 1998 199 7 E000s LOWS

Depreciation 267 176 Travelling, subsistence and entertainment 112 94 Publicity and promotions 755 43 6 Postage and telephones 0 110 Agency staff costs 847 32 3 Professional fees 1,633 1,62 6 Office and sundry 397 392 Value Added Tax 1,857 1,10 8 External assessment costs 8,428 5,504 ...... 14,296 9,769

For 1997/98 Postage and telephone costs have been included in Office and sundry .

These costs relate to the Lottery function and its operation during the year .

5 Decrease in Lottery funds 1998 199 7 E000s LOWS

Stated after charging : (a) Auditors' remuneration 29 29 (b) Staff travel, subsistence and hospitality 75 53

6 Tangible fixed assets Equipmen t Short fixtures leasehold and Tota l improvements fittings 1998 £OOOs LOWS E000s

Cost at 1 April 1997 71 634 - 705 Additions 217 330 54 7 Less disposals 0 11 11 ...... Cost at 31 March 1998 288 953 1,241 ......

Depreciation at 1 April 1997 18 203 221 Less depreciation on disposals 0 8 8 Provided for 1997/98 29 238 267 ...... Depreciation at 31 March 199 8 47 433 480 ...... Net book value at 31 March 1998 241 520 76 1 ...... Net book value at 31 March 199 7 53 431 484

Fixed assets are stated at their value to the business by reference to current costs . The Council considers that there is no materia l difference between their values by reference to current cost and their values under the historic cost convention .

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7 Investments Balances held in the National Lottery Distribution Fund remain under the stewardship of the Secretary of State for Culture , Media and Sport. However, the share of these balances attributable to the Arts Council of England is as shown in the account s and, at the balance sheet date, has been notified by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport as being available fo r distribution by the Arts Council of England in respect of current and future commitments.

The funds are invested on behalf of the National Lottery Distribution Fund by the National Debt Commisioners. The Arts Council' s distribution is in accordance with Sections 22 and 23 of the National Lottery etc . Act 1993 as amended .

8 Notional cost s Notional cost of capital is calculated as 6% of the average net assets employed by the Arts Council in the year, excluding th e balance in the Distribution Fund and hard grant commitments .

The Arts Council has adopted the principles of FRED 14 for the 1997/98 accounts and has not included notional insuranc e costs or set up any insurance provision .

9 Soft and hard commitments 1998 1997 £OOOs £OOOs

Soft commitments brought forward 113,372 110,072 Soft commitments transferred to hard commitments (455,794) (344,450) Soft de-commitments (413) 0 Soft commitments made 404,732 347,750 ...... Balance of soft commitments Outstanding carried forward 61,897 113,372 ...... Hard commitments brought forward 429,261 198,337 Hard commitments met in the last year (299,741) (113,419) Hard de-commitments (1,007) (107) Hard commitments mad e 455,794 344,450 ...... Balance of hard commitments outstanding carried forwar d 584,307 429,261 ...... Ageing of hard commitments : 1997/98 0 214,00 0 1998/99 314,081 188,897 1999/2000 157,854 16,42 6 2000/2001 52,462 2,738 2001/2002 20,420 2,38 0 Over 5 years 39,490 4,820 ...... Total hard commitments 584,307 429,261

10 Capital commitments There were no contracted capital commitments at 31 March 1998 (1997 - £0) .

11 Charges on assets As at 14 November 1997, the standard conditions of grant were revised to give the Council an option to take a formal charge on 96 assets for building projects where a grant of£250,000 or more is given . Where the Council has exercised that option it has done - so with no encumbrance upon itself 97

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12 Cash flow reconciliation 1998 199 7 £OOOs £OOOS Reconciliation of operating surplus/(deficit) t o net cash flow from operating activities .

Operating (deficit) (181,083) (96,367) Interest receivable (1,818) (541 ) Loss on disposal of fixed assets 3 0 Depreciation charges 267 176 (Increase)/decrease in debtors and prepayments 22,524 (127,951 ) Increase in creditors 154,466 230,003 ...... Net cash inflow from operating cashflows (5,641) 5,32 0

13 Reconciliation of net cash flow to movement in fund s 1998 199 7 LOWS C000S

Increase (decrease) in cash in the year (4,172) 5,16 8 Funds at I April 1997 9,77 0 4,602 ...... Funds at 31 March 1998 5,598 9,770

14 Analysis of net cash I April Cash 31 March 1997 flow 199 8 £OOOs £OOOs £OOOs

Cash 9,770 (4,172) 5,59 8 Overdrafts 0 0 0 ...... 9,770 (4,172) 5,59 8

15 Movement in Lottery funds 1998 1997 LOWS LOWS

Opening Lottery Reserve at 1 April 1997 (30,300) 66,067 Transferred from the income and expenditure account (181,083 ) (96,367) ...... Lottery Reserve at 31 March 1998 (211,383) (30,300) 16 Related parties The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is the sponsoring department for The Arts Council of England and is regarded as a related party. Regional Arts Boards are similarly regarded as related parties by virtue of the funding relationship with the Arts Council and by virtue of common membership of the Council and Boards . During the year the Arts Council of England ha d various material transactions with the Regional Arts Boards, the British Film Institute, the Crafts Council and the London Film an d Video Development Agency for which the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is also considered the sponsoring department .

As a matter of policy and procedure, Council members and Lottery Panel members maintain publicly available registers of interests and declare any direct interests in grant applications made to the Council and commercial relationships with the Council . They exclude themselves from the relevant grant appraisal, discussion and decision processes within the Council .

Some Council members are also Chairs of Regional Arts Boards . Eleven Council members were also Trustees, Governors or Boar d Members of other bodies to which grants have been made by the Arts Council in 1997/98 . In no such case was there any possibility of personal financial gain for Council members .

The following transactions are considered to be disclosable related party transactions :

Grant Organisation Council Relationshi p Member/Relation

35,000 Theatre Royal (Plymouth) David Brierlcy CBE Directo r 449,621 Nottingham Trent University Prof. Ray Cowell Vice-Chancello r 553,823 British Film Institute Charles Denton Governo r 50,000 Yorkshire Sculpture Park Sir Ernest Hall OBE DL Trustee 7,653 Yorkshire Youth and Music Sir Ernest Hall OBE DL President 99,750 AXIS Sir Ernest Hall OBE DL Patron 1,775,660 Art Transpcnninc Sir Ernest Hall OBE DL Board member 175,000 World Circuit Arts Gavin Henderson Chairma n 824,095 Tricycle Theatre Co Stephen Phillips Board member 1,450,234 Hampstead Theatre Ltd Trevor Phillips Chairma n 4,646,000 Centre for Performing Arts (Bristol) Ltd Maggie Guillebaud Chairman, Bristol Cultural Development Partnershi p 395,023 Picture This Independent Film Maggie Guillebaud Chairman, Bristol Cultural and Video Ltd Development Partnershi p 671,534 Tara Arts Group J Verma (related to Directo r Usha Prashar CBE ) 202,062 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Thelma Holt Council membe r 42,208,500 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council Stella Robson Member of Steering Group for regional music centre 41,000 Darlington Borough Council Stella Robson Elected member for Darlington

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Schedule 1 to the Account s

Eastern Arts Boar d East Midlands Arts Board Arts for Everyone Express Arts for Everyone Express (A4E Express) grants (A4E Express) grants Grants under £10,0,000 1,903,610 Grants under £100,000 1,487,694 Total Arts for Everyone Express Total Arts for Everyone Express (A4E Exp ress) gra n ts 1,903,61 0 (A4E Express) grants 1,487,694 ...... Arts for Everyone Mai n Arts for Everyone Mai n (A4E Main) grants (A4E Main) grants Britten Sinfonia 150,000 Dance 4 166,00 0 City of London Sinfonia 250,000 Nottingham Playhouse 500,000 Eastern Orchestral Board 250,000 Nottingham City Council & Partners 304,990 Jazz East 100,000 Nottingham Trent University 356,621 Norfolk and Norwich Festival 237,82 0 Nottinghamshire County Counci l SeaChange 400,000 (Arts Service) 399,335 Sound Sense 250,000 Philharmonia Orchestra 230,000 Suffolk Dance 390,05 8 Soft Touch Community Arts 140,563 Wingfield Arts 199,500 Grants under £100,000 472,767 Grants under £100,000 364,61 6 Total Arts for Everyone Main Total Arts far Everyone Main (A4E Main) grants 2,570,276 ...... (A4E Main) grants 2,591,994 ...... Capitalgrants Capitalgrants Consortium for the Galler y Aldeburgh Foundation 1,992,100 of the Future 290,952 Bcnslow Music Trust 975,000 International Youth House Project 395,420 Community Music East 1,596,212 Latimer School Society 1,222,12 5 Colchester and Tendring Mansfield District Council 1,759,89 1 Hospital Arts Project (CATNAP) 262,515 Murray Park Communit y Colchester Arts Centre 178,461 School GM 437,798 Hitchin Thespians 147,000 Nottinghamshire County Council 348,000 Norwich Arts Centre 551,00 0 Grants under £100,000 1,229,49 6 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council 850,00 0 Total Capitalgrants 5,683,68 2 Suffolk County Council 266,100 ...... Wingfield Arts 711,65 0 Total East Midlands Arts Board grants 9,741,652 Grants under£100,000 1,865,937 Total Capitalgrants 9,395,97 5 ...... Film grants Under £100,000 27,487 Total Film grants 27,48 7 ...... Stabilisation grants Cinema City, Norwich 385,27 2 Junction 474,013 Total Stabilisationgrants 859,285 ...... Total Eastern Arts Board grants 14,778,351

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London Arts Board Royal Borough of Kensington Arts for Everyone Express and Chelsea 190,20 0 (A4E F_vpress) gra n ts Royal Opera House 23,500,00 0 Under £100,000 3,850,693 Soho Theatre Company 4,502,71 3 Total Arts for Everyone Express Spitalfields Market Opera Ltd 394,38 3 (A4E Exp ress) gra n ts 3,850,693 Tabernacle Trust 370,72 8 ...... Teddington Theatre Club Ltd 1,668,71 1 Arts for Everyone Main Video Engineering & Training Ltd 635,458 (A4E Main)grants Whitechapel Art Gallery 579,29 0 Artangel 383,930 Wimbledon Civic Theatre Arts Catalyst 135,000 Trust Ltd 1,984,27 0 Arts Worldwide (World Circuit Arts) 175,000 Grants under £100,000 3,654,45 7 Big Issue Company Ltd 125,000 Total Capitalgrants 82,726,958 Black Coral Productions Ltd 270,000 ...... Bookworks 200,000 Dance and Drasnagrants Cardboard Citizens 253,754 Laban Centre Ltd 84,73 1 Green Candle Dance Company 250,000 London Studio Centre 150,00 8 Hampstead Theatre 499,874 Mountvicw Thcatre School Ltd 99,666 Heart 'n' Soul 211,704 Grants under £100,000 289,848 Irie! Dance Theatre 238,300 Total Dance and Drasnagrants 624,253 London Institute 350,000 ...... London Printworks Trust 181,000 Filmgrants National Federation April Film Productions Ltd 117,50 0 of Music Societies 250,000 APT Film And Television 286,000 National Youth Music Theatre 210,000 British Film Institute 364,55 1 Paines Plough 206,964 Elba Films Ltd 900,000 The Place (Contemporary First Film Company Ltd 750,000 Dance Trust) 281,467 Formation Films Ltd 1,000,000 Poetry Society 450,000 Graphite Film and Television Ltd 800,00 0 Pop-Up Theatre Ltd 220,218 Holmes Associates Ltd 585,00 0 Strathcona Theatre Company 396,797 Jonescompany (Productions) Ltd 946,250 Survivors' Poetry 249,763 Leda Serene Ltd 433,896 Tricycle Theatre Company 494,000 Marmot Tandy Ltd 1,890,00 0 Weekend Arts College 171,000 Oxford Film Company 950,000 Young Vic Theatre 486,000 Parallax Pictures Litd 907,075 Grants under £100,000 1,711,705 Scala Productions 800,000 Arts for Everyone Main Thin Man Films Ltd 2,000,000 (A4E Main) grants 8,401,476 Working Title Films Ltd 1,000,000 ...... Zenith Productions Ltd 950,000 Capitalgrants Grants under £100,000 416,070 ACAVA 972,785 Total Film grants 15,096,342 Bromley Youth Music Trust 127,500 ...... CandoCo Dance Company 641,300 Filna franchise grants Central Hall Trust 9,850,067 DNA Films Ltd 29,000,000 Chicken Shed Property Company 4,692,500 Film Consortium Ltd 33,550,000 Community Music Ltd 240,000 Pathc Pictures 33,120,000 Crafts Council 210,379 Total Filsn franchise grants 95,670,000 Geoffrey Whitworth Theatre 189,350 ...... Group Sixty Four Youth Theatre 292,167 Stabilisation grants Jerwood Space Ltd 1,420,261 Blackheath Concert Halls 1,150,000 London Borough of Barking Embroiderers' Guild 485,30 1 and Dagenham 3,895,000 English National Opera 4,750,000 London Borough of Haringay 200,000 London Symphony Orchestra 868,000 London Borough of Newham 13,744,000 Tara Arts Group 605,53 4 London Borough of Tower Hamlets 940,700 Total Stabilisationgrants 7,858,83 5 100 London Festival Orchestra Ltd 475,635 ...... London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 457,965 Total London Arts Board grants 214,228,55 7 10 1 National Federatio n of Music Societies 142,10 0 ax Orange Tree Theatre Ltd 333,922 a The Place 5,081,200 i Polka Theatre for Children 164,06 1 0 Random Dance Company 100,00 0 w 0 RIO Cinema 931,268 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 144,588 U e

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Northern Arts Boar d North West Arts Boar d Arts for Everyone Express Arts for Everyone Express (A4E Express) grants (A4E Express) grants Grants under £100,000 1,081,967 Grants under £100,000 1,729,02 9 Total Arts fir Everyone Express Total Arts for Everyone Express (A4E Express) grants 1,081,96 7 (A4E Express) grants 1,729,029 ...... Arts f r Everyone Main Arts fir Everyone Mai n (A4E Main) grants (A4E Main) gran is Dance City, National Dance Agency 175,000 Arts About Manchester 469,000 Northern Sights for the 13 Norther n Bolton Met. Borough Counci l Arts Education Authorities 360,000 Education & Arts Dept 182,000 Northern Stage 460,000 Creative Jazz Orchestra 150,000 Grants under £100,000 869,267 Nuffield Theatre/ Total Arts for Everyone Mai n Lancaster University 191,880 (A4E Main) grants 1,864,26 7 World Music Days 270,000 ...... Grants under £100,000 789,601 Capitalgrants Total Arts for Everyone Main Blyth Arts & Community Association 202,98 5 (A4E Main) grants 2,052,48 1 Brewery Arts Centre 911,577 ...... City of Sunderland 240,800 Capitalgrant Cumbria Theatre Trust Lt d Blackburn Theatre "Trust Ltd 100,000 (The Century Theatre Ltd) 1,585,704 Bluccoat Display Centre 154,500 Arc Trust Ltd (Dovecot Arts Centre) 375,00 0 Burnley Parish Church of St Peter 129,471 Durham Street Studio 493,84 1 Chester Gateway "theatre 290,000 Gateshead Metropolita n Chetham's School of Music 308,000 Borough Council 37,905,00 0 Empire Theatre (Merseyside ) Gateshead Metropolita n Trust Ltd 7,630,000 Borough Council 3,000,000 Halle Concerts Society 376,00 0 Gateshead Metropolita n Lancashire County Council 628,400 Borough Council 1,303,500 Lancaster City Council 917,360 Greenfield Centre 865,845 Liverpool Institute fo r Old Laundry Theatre 288,997 Performing Arts 1,500,00 0 Tyne & Wear Development Manchester City Council 346,00 0 Corporation 3,583,788 New Everyman Ltd 218,615 Grants under £100,000 1,963,949 Northern Quarter Association 200,000 Total Capitalgrants 52,720,98 6 Royal Exchange 2,747,00 0 ...... Royal Exchange 17,110,25 0 Filmgrants Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Grants under £100,000 15,00 0 Society 164,00 0 Total Filmgrants 15,00 0 Valley Community Theatre 494,000 ...... Grants under £100,000 2,334,80 8 Stabilisation : grants Total Capitalgrants 35,648,404 Northern Sinfonia 1,691,781 ...... Total Stabilisationgrants 1,691,78 1 Dance and Dramagrants ...... Grants under £100,000 74,22 0 Total Northern Arts Board grants 57,374,001 Total Dance and Dratnagrants 74,220 ...... Stabilisation grants Inner Cite Music 530,260 Grants under £100,000 77,00 0 Total Stabilisation grants 607,260 ...... Total North West Arts Board grants 40,111,394

Southern Arts Board South East Arts Board Arts fir Everyone Express Arts for Everyone Express (A4E Express) grants (A4E Express) grants Under £100,000 1,801,904 Grants under £100,000 1,434,00 7 Total Arts for Everyone Express Total Arts fr Everyone Express (A4E Express)grants 1,801,904 (A4E Express) grants 1,434,00 7 ...... Arts for Everyone Main Arts for Everyone Main (A4E Main) grants (A4E Main) grants ArtSNvay 192,560 Fabrica 276,539 Buckinghamshire Regional North Kent Architecture Centre 300,000 Dance Council 150,000 Theatre Melange 100,00 0 Forest Forge Theatre Company 224,419 Zap Productions 400,000 Max - Marketing the Arts Grants under £100,000 518,898 in Oxfordshire 191,238 Total Arts for Everyone Main Pegasus Theatre/ (A4E Main) grants 1,595,43 7 ...... Oxford Youth Theatre 222,239 Swindon Dance 179,892 Capitalgrants Grants under£ 100,000 354,520 Arundel Festival 112,86 0 Total Arts fir Everyone Main Brighton Festival 390,00 0 (A4E Main) grants 1,514,868 Channel Theatre Trust Ltd 301,42 1 ...... Guildford BC 210,000 Capitalgrants Old Market Trust 3,673,03 3 Bournemouth Orchestras 434,624 Strode Park Foundation for Christchurch Priory 900th Disabled People 226,079 Anniversary Appeal 373,045 Grants under £100,000 1,319,742 National Film and Total Capitalgrants 6,233,13 5 ...... Television School 1,163,175 National Film and Dance and Dramagrants Television School 4,491,705 Laine Theatre Arts Ltd 99,086 Nordcn Farm Centre Trust Ltd 5,295,000 Grants under £100,000 140,48 3 Oxford Playhouse "Trust 405,660 Total Dance and Dramagrants 239,569 ...... Steve Ross Foundation for the Arts 559,096 Trainman "Trust 1,037,000 Total South East Arts Board grants 9,502,148 Trowbridge College 836,475 Wantagc Parochial Church Council 265,000 Wraysbury Village Hall 100,000 Wymering Community Association 301,495 Grants under £100,000 1,705,696 Total Capitalgrants 16,967,97 1 ...... Dance and Dramagrants Grants under £100,000 9,432 Total Dance and Dramagrants 9,432 ...... Film grants Under £100,000 5,40 0 Total Filmgrants 5,400 ...... Stabilisation grants Bournemouth Orchestras 3,182,000 Hampshire Arts Consortium 394,000 Total Stabilisationgrants 3,576,000

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South West Arts Board West Midlands Arts Board Arts for Everyone Express Arts far Everyone Express (A4E Express) grants (A4E Express) grants Grants under £100,000 2,060,22 0 Grants under £100,000 3,926,06 3 Total Arts for Everyone Express Total Arts for Everyone Express (A4E Express) gra n ts 2,060,22 0 (A4E Express) grants 3,926,063 ...... Arts for Everyone Mai n Arts for Everyone Main (A4E Main) grants (A4E Main) grants Artshare South West 130,000 Coventry Theatre Network 497,580 Chard Festival of Women in Music 150,000 Hi8us Projects Ltd 475,000 Common Players 182,462 Ikon Gallery 219,424 Devon Association of Governors/ National Rural Touring Forum 497,385 Arts in Schools Initiative 208,200 Grants under £100,000 600,005 Lnag©nation 374,32 2 Total Arts for Everyone Main National Youth Orchestra o f (A4E Main) grants 2,289,39 4 Great Britain 150,00 0 ...... Rainbow Over Bath 120,00 0 Capitalgrants Grants under £100,000 651,769 Birmingham Centre for Media Total Arts for Everyone Mai n Arts Ltd 289,762 (A4E Main) grants 1,966,753 Burton Borough School 676,000 ...... Cosy Hall 242,769 Capitalgrants Coventry Technical College 364,88 0 Arts in Hospital 330,547 Crescent Theatre Ltd 500,00 0 Bath Spa University College 1,130,000 Education Theatre Services 171,93 2 Centre for the Performing Arts EMAP Construct 169,25 0 (Bristol) Ltd 300,000 Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton 5,885,00 0 Centre for the Performing Arts Hereford City Council 750,000 (Bristol) Ltd 4,346,00 0 Jubilee Arts Company Ltd 150,00 0 Common Players 100,000 Langley Secondary School . 431,78 2 Cornwall Theatre Co Ltd 550,347 Ludlow & District Community Estover Community College / Association Ltd 360,640 Estover Percussion Project 575,000 Playbox Theatre 2,029,12 0 Exeter Health Care Arts 425,450 Tile Hill Wood School 250,962 Newlyn Art Gallery 1,124,81 3 University of Wolverhampton 1,259,07 8 Peterloo Poets 211,665 Wolverhampton Borough Council 3,295,00 0 Picture This Independen t Wrekin District Council 174,000 Film and Video Ltd 395,02 3 Grants under £100,000 2,651,00 8 Queen's Theatre Trust 258,560 Total Capitalgrants 19,651,18 3 Rent A Role/Plymouth City Council 624,21 0 ...... St Austell Band Club 110,15 0 Dance and Dramagrants Strode College 893,18 0 Grants under £100,000 30,91 2 Tacci-Morris Centre 2,098,675 Total Dance and Dramagrants 30,912 Teignmouth Town Council & ...... Teignbridge District Council 269,780 Stabilisationgrants Wellhouse Community Arts Centre 1,680,306 Birmingham Repertory Theatre Grants under £100,000 2,018,79 1 Ltd 5,773,000 Total Capitalgrants 17,442,49 7 Total Stabilisationgrants 5,773,000 ...... Dance and Dramagrants Total West Midlands Arts Board grants 31,670,552 Grants under £100,000 29,924 Total Dance and Dramagrants 29,92 4 ...... Filsn grants Grants under £100,000 5,974 Total Filmgrants 5,974 ...... Stabilisation grants Bristol City Council Consortium 168,000 Total Stabilisationgrants 168,000 ...... Total South West Arts Board grants 21,673,368

Yorkshire & Humberside Arts Boar d Arts for Everyone Express (A4E Express) grants Grants under £100,000 2,343,387 Total Arts f r Everyone Express (A4E Express) grants 2,343,387 ...... Arts for Everyone Main (A4E Main) grants Art House 150,00 0 Calderdale MBC : Museums & Arts 258,644 CAPE UK 350,00 0 Jabadao Nat . Dev. Agency for Specialist Movement Work 227,536 Leeds Centre for Indian Musi c and Dance 100,00 0 Mind the ...Gap 302,05 0 PhotoArts 2000 323,00 0 KJC Dance Theatre 350,000 Yorkshire Media Consortium 349,000 Grants under £100,000 944,287 Total Arts for Everyone Mai n (A4E Main) grants 3,354,51 7 ...... Capitalgrants Airedale High School 100,000 Art Transpenninc 1,775,660 Arvon Foundation 113,75 6 Kirklecs Media Centre Ltd 1,941,409 Music Heritage Ltd 9,500,000 National Museum of Photography, Film & Television 1,603,75 0 Opera North Ltd 100,000 PhotoArts 2000 1,225,980 Up-Stagers' Theatre Charity Ltd 194,25 2 York Early Music Foundation 1,518,750 Grants under £100,000 2,711,772 Total Capitalgrants 20,785,32 9 ...... Filut grants Dan Films Ltd 870,000 Kudos Film Ltd 665,000 Viva Films Ltd 975,000 Grants under £100,000 22,640 Total Filmgrants 2,532,64 0 ...... Stabilisation grants Leeds Theatre Trust Ltd 591,000 Leeds Theatre Trust Ltd 2,054,00 0 Sheffield Museums & Galleries Consortium 1,098,377 Grants under £100,000 79,00 0 Total Stabilisationgrants 3,822,37 7 ...... Total Yorkshire & Humberside 104 Arts Board grants 32,838,250 105

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e New Council members

In June 1998, Chris Smith MP, Secretary of State fo r Antony Gormley, who is an internationally-renowne d Culture, Media and Sport, announced the new Arts sculptor. He is the creator of the monumenta l Council of England under the chairmanship of Gerr y landmark sculpture for the city of Gateshead, Angel Robinson. Its members are: of the North. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994. Gerry Robinson, appointed Chairman-designate of the Arts Council of England in January 1998 . His Anish Kapoor, who is a sculptor of international career has included financial and accounting roles a t reputation. He represented Britain at the 1990 Lesney Products, Lex Service Group and Coca-Cola . Venice Biennale, where he was a prize-winner; and He joined Granada in October 1991 as Chie f was awarded the Turner Prize in 1991 . Executive and took over as Chairman in March 1996 . He takes a personal interest in the visual an d Joanna MacGregor, an international concert pianis t performing arts, was a council member of the Englis h who has appeared with all the major British Stage Company and has been involved in th e orchestras and toured worldwide . She is Professor o f development of the Royal Court Theatre. Music at Gresham College, London, and is based i n the Wirral . Derrick Anderson, Chief Executive of Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council sinc e Andrew Motion, who is a poet, biographer an d 1996 . Mr Anderson has previously worked as Deput y Professor of Creative Writing at the University o f Director of Yorkshire Arts, Head of Leisure Service s East Anglia . Professor Motion has served on the Art s at Wakefield MBC and Director of Leisure Services a t Council of England since 1996 . Wolverhampton MBC . Prudence Skene, an experienced arts administrator . David Brierley CBE, who was the General Manage r Until recently Director of the Arts Foundation an d and Secretary to the Governors of the Roya l formerly Executive Director of Ballet Rambert an d Shakespeare Company from 1968 to 1996 . He was Executive Producer of the English Shakespear e first appointed to the Arts Council of England in Company, Miss Skene has served on the Arts Counci l November 1997 . He is also a trustee of the Theatres of England since 1994 . She is Chairman at th e Trust and lives in Cornwall . National Lottery Advisory Panel, and lives in Bath .

Deborah Bull, Principal Dancer at the Royal Balle t Hilary Strong, who has been Director of Edinburgh since 1992 . As a member of the Arts Council's Dance Festival Fringe since May 1994 and previously Advisory Panel, she gave the Arts Council Annual worked as an administrator and producer in variou s Lecture in 1996, From Private Patronage to Public regional and international theatre companies . Purse.

Christopher Frayling, Rector and Professor o f Cultural History at the Royal College of Art . Professor Frayling has served on the Arts Council o f England since 1994 and was previously a member o f the Arts Council of Great Britain with a variety o f portfolios including visual arts, film and education . Further information

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