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Annual Report & Accounts Arts Council England, Grant-in-Aid and National Lottery Distribution 2019/20 Annual Report & Accounts FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2020 HC 416 ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND GRANT-IN-AID AND NATIONAL LOTTERY DISTRIBUTION ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2019/20 Presented to Parliament pursuant to sections 34(3) and 35(5) of the National Lottery Act 1993 (as amended by the National Lottery Act 1998 and National Lottery Act 2006). Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 16 July 2020 HC 416 © ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND COPYRIGHT 2020 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government- licence/version/3. Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. This publication is available at: www.gov.uk/official-documents. Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at: Arts Council England The Hive 49 Lever Street Manchester M1 1FN Website: www.artscouncil.org.uk Phone: 0845 300 6200 Email: [email protected] Textphone: +44(0) 161 934 4428 ISBN 978-1-5286-1882-3 CCS0420457470 Printed on paper containing 75% recycled fibre content minimum Printed in the UK by the APS Group on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS Contents 01. Chair’s report 02 02. Chief Executive’s report 06 03. Achieving great art and culture 10 04. Remuneration report 38 05. Sustainability report 46 06. Trustees’ report and management commentary 56 07. Strategic report 78 08. Grant-in-Aid accounts 92 09. Lottery distribution accounts 138 10. National Lottery report 172 Image credits 184 ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND Chair’s report 01. ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS Sir Nicholas Serota CH CHAIR, ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND This spring our lives and our society total we listened to the views of more than have been threatened by a pandemic of 6,000 people. unprecedented scale. The Arts Council The consultation process reflects our belief was born in World War Two, a war of a that something as deeply nourishing as different kind. However, now, as then, creativity and culture should be accessible people have recognised the importance to everyone, no matter their background or where they live. The consultation reflected to their lives of creativity and culture as our willingness to listen, and I believe we expressions of human endeavour. have emerged with a Strategy that reflects a genuine understanding of the many different The resilience and adaptability that people ways in which creativity and culture can play have shown in recent months is a clear a part in all our lives. demonstration of how an ability to think creatively is present in each of us. An The Strategy is designed to achieve three understanding of the role of creativity in all our Outcomes, through which we will realise lives is the foundation of the Arts Council’s the priorities, hopes and ambitions that were work and therefore of our new 10-Year Strategy, expressed during the consultation process. Let’s Create, which we published in January. The first Outcome, Creative People, is a It sets out how we intend to support creativity commitment to making sure that every person and culture in communities throughout England will have the chance to develop their creativity over the next decade. Of course, we now and express themselves, enjoying all the face a very different world, but the goals and benefits of health and wellbeing, as well as the principles of that Strategy remain at the the sheer joy, that creativity brings. Through forefront of our minds as we seek to support the second Outcome, Cultural Communities, the sector through this crisis and beyond. we aim to encourage all our villages, towns The Strategy was two years in the making and and cities to bring people together, to was developed in close collaboration with the regenerate neighbourhoods and to support cultural sector, as well as communities and their economies through culture. By working audiences across the country. It has its roots towards the final Outcome, A Creative and in a series of workshops and surveys that Cultural Country, we will ensure that England’s began in 2018, when we asked 5,000 people creative and cultural practitioners and the to express their thoughts on the future of organisations that present their work are culture and creativity in England. producing outstanding, innovative work and are regarded as international leaders, contributing In 2019, we held a second round of workshops to the country’s economic success and to our where members of the public gave us their views on the emerging draft strategy, followed position on the world’s stage. by further consultations with the cultural sector, The Strategy describes four Investment funders, policy makers and young people. In Principles that will help us achieve these CHAIR’S REPORT 03 ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND Outcomes. These are: Ambition & Quality – extend the work of four existing projects. ensuring that we are investing in the highest There are now 34 locations in the programme, quality artistic work and supporting elite and we have recently launched a second talent; Dynamism – harnessing innovations in phase, inviting applications from the remaining technology, finance and business practices 66 places across the country with the lowest in the service of creativity and culture; levels of cultural engagement. Environmental Responsibility – requiring the Promoting creativity in education and bringing organisations and artists we support to make the arts into the curriculum for all age groups their work environmentally sustainable; and makes a vital contribution to the lives of young Inclusivity & Relevance – addressing the people and encourages engagement with the continuing failure to achieve the diversity arts and culture throughout life. The Durham that should be present in the cultural sector’s Commission on Creativity and Education, leadership, governance, workforce and a collaboration between the Arts Council audiences, and asking organisations to create and Durham University which looked at the work that speaks to the communities they importance of creativity and creative thinking serve. in our education system, was published in Although this is a new Strategy, its values October. The report found that while every have been illustrated by our work throughout child can benefit from teaching for creativity 2019/20. across all disciplines, these opportunities are We have continued to promote excellence in not equally available to all. the cultural sector with an investment of £407 The report made a number of million in our National Portfolio Organisations recommendations on how these inequalities and £100 million through National Lottery can be addressed. We have already taken the Project Grants, our open access funding first steps in response and, in the wake of stream for the arts, museum and library the current crisis, we are planning a number sectors. These investments in organisations of new initiatives that will sit alongside run alongside initiatives that support individual the excellent work already being done by artists, encouraging and growing talent in the organisations we have invested in over the cultural sector. last year, including Music Education Hubs, We want the work we support to reach as Bridge Organisations and National Youth Music wide an audience as possible and especially Organisations. those people who may not usually engage We continue to invest in projects that with creativity and culture. I am pleased to will unlock the creative potential of new report that audiences for our National Portfolio technology. These include CreativeXR, our Organisations increased by 18 per cent in the partnership with Digital Catapult which three years to March 2019, and audiences for supports creative teams to develop work work funded by our National Lottery Project using immersive technology. We announced Grants increased by 36 per cent in the same a second cohort of teams in April 2019 and a period. third round is currently being developed. We have committed an additional £41.5 million In February this year, we launched the to our Creative People and Places programme, Digital Culture Compass, a toolkit to help designed to increase engagement in areas organisations incorporate digital technology where people have traditionally faced barriers into their business models. This followed the to accessing art and culture. This investment launch of the Digital Culture Network in March has allowed us to bring the programme to 13 2019. The Network is composed of nine Tech new locations across the country, including Champions who advise the cultural sector on towns such as Barrow, Basildon, Sedgemoor, how to integrate technologies such as social Middlesbrough and Great Yarmouth, and to media, digital marketing and live streaming into 04 CHAIR’S REPORT ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS their work. Within six months of launching, the team had worked with over a third of our National Portfolio Organisations and held a series of training events with Google Arts & Culture that reached 260 organisations. Throughout the lockdown, the Network has continued to work with the sector, helping organisations adapt to remote working and engage with audiences online. We look forward to expanding on this work in the future, encouraging further innovation in support of our country’s creativity and culture. The arts, libraries and museums will emerge from the Coronavirus crisis. However, in responding to the challenges that it has brought to cultural life in this country, we have needed to call on the experience and creativity of all those who work at the Arts Council. I have been enormously impressed by the dedication and resourcefulness of colleagues, who have adjusted their thinking and processes, working swiftly and tirelessly to re-purpose our funding and support the cultural sector through this difficult time.
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