Audiences Central have pulled out a list of the various arts/culture quangos whose fate has been announced today. There’s more detail over there, but here’s the at-a-glance version.
Abolished:
- Design Council (turn into a charity)
- Regional Development Agencies
- Advisory Council on Libraries
- Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (functions transferred)
- The Theatre Trust (continue as charity)
- UK Film Council (functions transferred)
- British Waterways (create new charity à la National Trust)
- Railway Heritage Committee
- NESTA (establish as a charity, endowment to be held in a trust)
- Teachers TV Board of Governors
Retained:
- Arts Council England
- Churches Conservation Trust
- English Heritage
- Historical Royal Palaces
- Various museums and galleries
- National Heritage Memorial Fund/Heritage Lottery Fund
- Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art
- Visit Britain
- Visit England
- Forestry Commission (with big reforms)
- National England (with big reforms)
- National Army Museum/National Museum of the Royal Navy/Royal Air Force Museum
- UK Trade & Industry
- Technology Strategy Board
- British Wool Marketing Board
Under consideration
- Film Industry Training Board (decision Nov)
- Commission for Architecture and the Build Environment (CABE)
With thanks to Dave Harte for picking out a few more relevant organisations to add to the list.
There’s been all sorts of musing about the changes being made but, for local interest, I’ll link to a post on the Silent Solutions blog (UPDATE – that post has been deleted. Ta to Pete for pointing this out and linking to Google’s cache), mainly because it’s opinionated. There are a few inaccuracies and I don’t agree with everything that’s been said, but that’s fine.
I like opinions and I’m usually quite happy to link to them here. Most would agree that discussion is good and healthy, but people often seem to be afraid to talk publicly in anything other than glowing terms. Shame that.
Unless I’m mistaken that Silent Solutions post has vanished. Here’s the Google Cache.
Oh yeah, that’s irritating. I just left a comment on there too. Gah!
Worth noting for your audience (BIS rather than DCMS)
NESTA: “No longer an NDPB – Seek to establish as an independent charity. Endowment to be held in a separate trust”
Film Industry Training Board: “Under consideration – Complete consideration by November 2010 of transferring body and functions to private sector status”
UK Trade & Industry – retain
They’ve part-funded a lot of creative companies in Brum to sell their stuff overseas.
Technology Strategy Board – retain
Innovation funding for Digital and Creative Industries
I note the Teachers TV Board of Governors is abolished but I’m not sure what that means for Teacher’s TV itself (at least one local TV indie has work from them).
And now that knitting is cool again we can breathe a sigh of relief for the retention of the British Wool Marketing Board.
Ta, have added the ones I missed to the lists in the post.
Some info on Teachers TV in the Indy today http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/richard-garner-we-can-teach-those-foreigners-a-thing-or-two-2106043.html
It’s owned by a consortium called Education Digital but the Board of Governors is there to make sure the public funding they receive is spent properly. Fair to suppose that the disappearing board means the funding is disappearing too?