Almost one in four of the Arts Council funding losers – 47 of the 206 organisations losing their entire grants – are based in London. The capital and the south-east were hit hard, but that partly reflects the number of arts organisations based there.
Although a cash increase was announced for 321 organisations nationally, allowing for inflation running at over 4% only 275 will see an increase in real terms. Most of the organisations get well under £500,000 a year, with only 65 over the £800,000 mark – and of those, 54 will suffer a real-terms cut. Many of the biggest, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, will see their money cut by 15% in real terms over the three-year funding agreement. In percentage terms many small regional organisations, particularly those with contemporary art and music and touring ambitions, have done best. Here are some real-term winners and losers by region and discipline:
London
Art
ICA, where new director Gregor Muir took office only last month: 42% cut
Barbican arts centre: 108% increase
Theatre
Shared Experience: entire grant cut
Almeida: 49% cut
Arcola: 82% increase
Punchdrunk: 141% increase
Music
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: 15% real-terms cut
Dance
The Place: 20% cut.
The Cholmondeleys and the Featherstonehaughs: entire grant cut
Literature
English Pen, promoter of writers and writing: 190% increase
Poetry Book Society, established by TS Eliot in 1953: entire grant cut
North-east and north-west
Art
Baltic centre for contemporary art, Gateshead: increase to nearly £3m
Mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art): 143% increase
Yorkshire Sculpture Park: 15% cut
Museums
Sheffield contemporary art programme: grant cut
Theatre
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick: 22% increase
Maltings Theatre, Berwick: 270% increase
Dance
Ballet Lorent, Gateshead: 35% increase
Music
Psappha, a new music group based in Glossop, Derbyshire: 40% increase
Literature
New Writing North: 50% increase
Midlands
Art
Phoenix Arts, Leicester: new grant
Lincoln Arts Trust: almost 300% increase
Threshold Studios, Northampton: 108% increase
Theatre
Buxton Opera House: 10% cut
Red Earth Theatre, Derbyshire: new grant
Dance
Retina dance company, Nottingham: 25% increase
Dance4, Nottingham: 47% increase
Literature
Tindal Street, a Birmingham-based independent publisher: entire grant cut
East, south-east and south
Art
Colchester Arts Centre: 53% increase
Norfolk and Norwich festival: 87% increase
ArtSway, New Forest: entire grant cut
Towner Gallery, Eastbourne: 81% increase
Theatre
Watermill Theatre Newbury: 28% increase
Trestle theatre, based in St Albans: grant cut
New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth: 50% cut
Music
Britten Sinfonia: 12% increase
Glyndebourne touring opera and education: 2% cut
Academy of Ancient Music, Cambridge: £171,000 first-time grant
Aldeburgh Music: 10% cut
Dance
Dance East, Ipswich: 27% increase
South-west
Art
Cornwall Arts Centre, Truro: 24% cut
Dorchester Arts Centre: 56% increase
Watershed Arts, Bristol: 106% increase
Theatre
Bristol Old Vic: no change
Forkbeard Fantasy, Bristol: entire grant cut
Northcott theatre, Exeter: entire grant cut
Music
Bath Festivals: 11% cut
Wren Music, Devon: entire grant cut
Dance
Dance South West: 103% increase
• this article was amended on 1 April 2011. The original said incorrectly that Phoenix Arts, Leicester and Red Earth Theatre, Derbyshire had had their grants cut. In fact they have new grants. This has been corrected.
