CONTENTS History The Council is appointed by the Muster for Staff The Arts Council of Great Britain wa s the Arts and its Chairman and 19 othe r Chairman's Introduction formed in August 1946 to continue i n unpaid members serve as individuals, not Secretary-General's Prefac e peacetime the work begun with Government representatives of particular interests o r Highlights of the Year support by the Council for the organisations. The Vice-Chairman is Activity Review s Encouragement of Music and the Arts. The appointed by the Council from among its Arts Council operates under a Royal members and with the Minister's approval . Departmental Report s Charter, granted in 1967 in which its objects The Chairman serves for a period of five Scotland are stated as years and members are appointed initially Wales for four years. South Bank (a) to develop and improve the knowledge , Organisational Review understanding and practice of the arts , Sir William Rees-Mogg Chairman Council (b) to increase the accessibility of the art s Sir Kenneth Cork GBE Vice-Chairma n Advisory Structure to the public throughout Great Britain . Michael Clarke Annual Account s John Cornwell to advise and co-operate wit h Funds, Exhibitions, Schemes and Awards (c) Ronald Grierson departments of Government, local Jeremy Hardie CB E authorities and other bodies . Pamela, Lady Harlec h Gavin Jantje s The Arts Council, as a publicly accountable Philip Jones CB E body, publishes an Annual Report to provide Gavin Laird Parliament and the general public with an James Logan overview of the year's work and to record al l Clare Mullholland grants and guarantees offered in support of Colin Near s the arts. Professor Alan Peacock asc FBA Mathew Prichard A description of the highlights of the Sir Brian Rix CB E Council's work and discussion of its policies Sir Roy Strong appear in the newspaperArts in Action which Elizabeth Thomas is published in conjunction with this Repor t Dr Robert Woof and can be obtained, free of charge, from th e Sir Brian Young Arts Council, 105 Piccadilly. London WIV OAU and arts outlets throughout the Policy and Finance Committee country. Sir William Rees-Mogg Chairma n Sir Kenneth Cork GBE Vke-Chairman Jeremy Hardie CB E Philip Jones CBE Professor Alan Peacock DSC FBA Mathew Prichard Elizabeth Thoma s Q August 19$6) STAFF Based at its headquarters in Piccadilly, Senior Staff London, the Council's staff work %ith its HEADQUARTERS Secretan-GeneralLuke Rittne r members, advisory panels and committees 105 Piccadilly Deputy Secretan°-General Anthony Everit t to administer the Council's programmes and London W1V OAU Finance Director Anthony Blackstock FCA to advise on and execute policy and funding 01-6299495 Director gfArts Co-ordination decisions. For the Council's work in England Graham Marchan t there are ten departments. ArtDirectorJoanna Drew CB E Dance Director Jane Nichola s In addition the Council administers the Drama Director Ian Brown Hayward and Serpentine Galleries and the Literature Directorto be appointed Wigmore Hall, in London, and has its own Music Director Richard Lawrence shop in Covent Garden . Outside London the Controllerof Marketing and Resource s Council funds a network of marketing offices Dylan Hammond in major regional centres to support its Controllero'WlanningJaneTaylo r touring programme . Controller ofTouringlack Phipps Personnel Manager Mary Wratten The Scottish and Welsh Arts Councils and HeadofSecretariat Lawrence Mackintosh South Bank Centre have their own staffs Accountant Richard Brooks CA based in Edinburgh, Cardiff and London. SCOTLAND DirectorTimothy Mason 19 Charlotte Square Depuh'Director Harry McCann Edinburgh EH2 4 DF ArtDirector Lindsay Gordo n 031-226 6051 Dance and Drama DirectorBob Palmer Literature Director Walter Cairns Music Director Christie Duncan CombinedArtsDirectorJohn Murphy WALES Director Thomas Owen Hol st House Depuh,Director and MusicDirector Museum Place Roy Bohana MBE. Cardiff CF13NX Art Director Peter Jone s 0222-394711 Drama Director Roger "Comlinson LiteratureDirectorhleic Stephens Director of F finance and Administratum Andrew Malin FC A SOUTH BANK CENTRE ExecutimChairman Ronald Grierson Royal Festival Hall GeneralDirector (Adni inistration) Belvedere Road Richard Pulford London SE 18XX General Director (Arts) Nicholas Snowma n 01-9210600 0 August 1986) CHAIRMAN'S INTRODUCTIO N The Glory ofthe Garden looked to a expenditure by the metropolitan countie s partnership between the Arts Council and themselves. This achievement is a tribute t o the local authorities to improve the funding the work of the staff of the Arts Council ; to of the English regions in order to provide the work of the Regional Arts Association s better access to the living arts for the peopl e and to the admirable co-operation of the who live there . We have currently reached a successor local authorities. point at which Arts Council funding an d matching funding from the local authoritie s It is not always understood that take n has increased by some 20% the expenditure together, the local authorities spend more in the regions . This has meant some holding on the arts than central government does back on expansion in London . Despite some through the Arts Council . In the comin g London complaints, Arts Council clients in year, the combined expenditure of the Arts London have coped remarkably well with Council and the local authorities will come to the funding problems that this caused them . £280m with another £20m expected from business sponsorship . Of that £300m, the The internal re-organisation has bee n Arts Council contributes £135m. We see ou r designed to provide a more active respons e role as being one of partnership both with to change in the needs of the arts and to avoi d local authorities, and with business the dangers of bureaucracy. The Arts sponsors. Indeed, as we are providing less Council has a bureaucratic function to than half the total funds available to the arts , perform, but we try to guard against a it would be very foolish of us not to recognise 1985/86 was a year of major change and bureaucratic frame of mind by appointin g the overwhelming importance of successfu l development for the Arts Council . The three people from the artistic community to th e and friendly partnership. In many cases, of key themes were implementation of the Council, its staff and advisory panels for course, the Arts Council takes the lead, bu t regional development policy The Glory of the short periods. This encourages people who in many others it is the local authorities and , Garden; a major internal re-organisation and are deeply involved in the arts to give a part in their partnership with us in the RAAs, th e a campaign of persuasion designed to ensure of their lives to the management of art s local authorities provide an essential basis o f that the arts did not suffer from the abolitio n funding, either on a voluntary or professiona l local knowledge. Without this partnership in of the metropolitan counties . Real progress basis, without committing them to a lifetime Great Britain, the arts would be much poorer was made in all of these areas and the year of service in a purely administrative role . and much scarcer than they are. can have been said to have been a successfu l one. Given its function, I believe that the Arts Council avoids bureaucracy as well as an y The Glory ofthe Garden addressed itself to institution of its kind and better than most . the disproportionately inadequate funding o f Administrative costs form an exceptionall y the English regions . The English regions low proportion of Arts Council expenditure . were receiving much less than London an d they were also receiving less than th e The third theme of the past year has been t o national regions of Scotland and Wales . It is persuade the Government that adequat e of course reasonable that London, as the new money was needed to replace th e great metropolis of the arts, should receive funding of the metropolitan counties. % more arts funding per head than the rest of have been able to negotiate settlements with the country. It always has and it always will . the successor local authorities that have in But the gap was much too wide . total, in most cases, exceeded the earlier William Rees-Mogg SECRETARY GENERAL'S PREFAC E Arts: A Great British Success Sto►y in which of operation were recommended and onl y we made a compelling economic case for time will tell how successful these change s increased public investment in the arts . This are. An organisational review is usually prospectus, together with the calm, unsettling and here again I would like to pay convinced, and co-ordinated representation s tribute to all the Council's staff for th e made by many hundreds of art s wholehearted and constructive wav in whic h organisations, by local authorities and by the they approached the re-hew Together an d R.AAs, resulted in a k9m increase in abolition after much consultation both inside and funding from the Government . It made an outside the Council, we have identified ou r impossible task possible and undoubtedl y shortcomings and possible remedies. prevented castastrophe . During the year, the Council published it s The outcome of the negotiations with action plan on the ethnic minority arts . I successor local authorities has been think most of us felt this was overdue, bu t remarkable and I must pay tribute to the loca l nevertheless it was an important step on th e authorities themselves who have responde d road to the vitally important goal we ar e so well to the funding needs of the arts in seeking, namely, to ensure that the Council 's their areas.