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New research reveals extent of the challenges facing the cultural sector
Latest data from our nationwide survey warn of compounding threats to arts and culture as cost-of-living arrests Covid-19 recovery.
New perspectives outside of the ACE National Portfolio
Anne Torreggiani offers commiserations and support to fellow organisations who will not be in ACE's funded Portfolio from next year, but reflects on how the shift frees The Audience Agency up to focus more on what really matters to our community.
ACE moves forward with our advice for its Disability Access Scheme
ACE is taking forward the findings from our feasibility study into a national access scheme for disabled audiences and testing them with the ticketed arts sector.
Key Dates announced for NLHF Innovation Fund Applications
The Heritage Innovation Fund is a pilot initiative for experimenters, collaborators and learners from across all parts of heritage, across the UK. They're looking for people who want to play a leading role in pioneering solutions for making the heritage workforce fit for the future.
What users need from a national collection digital infrastructure
The Audience Agency recently completed a piece of research for Towards a National Collection to understand what users might want and need from a future national collection digital infrastructure.
Historic England – Knowing the Heritage Sector
Historic England recently commissioned The Audience Agency and our partners MyCake to start establishing the size of the sector using publicly available data sets.
Cultural Participation Monitor Findings Spring 2022
New data shows that arts and cultural engagement has greatly increased, but some groups remain cautious about live events, whilst the cost-of-living crisis will impact attendance, and the preference for home working makes local events more popular.
'Culture in Crisis: Recommendations for Policy Makers' launched in Parliament
12 new policy recommendations, devised to support the creative and cultural sector recover and rebuild in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, presented to senior government and sector policy makers.
DCMS publishes our roadmap for building a better UK cultural economy
The pandemic highlighted an urgent need for better data to describe the cultural sector – Now the government has published solutions identified by The Audience Agency and financial benchmarking specialists MyCake.
Audience Spectrum Now Digs Deeper
As both patterns of engagement and cultural organisations’ needs are changing, Audience Spectrum is evolving to meet them.