Arts Council England (ACE)
Arts Council England (ACE) is a national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery.
ACE works to get great art to everyone by championing, developing and
investing in artistic experiences that enrich people’s lives.
As a national development agency for the arts, ACE supports a range of
artistic activities from theatre to music, literature to dance, photography
to digital art and carnival to crafts. Between 2008 and 2011 ACE will
invest in excess of £1.6 billion of public money from the government
and the National Lottery in the Arts.
ACE regularly funds around 880 arts organisations on a three-year basis,
investing £350million per annum by 2010/11. The aim is to bring
high quality work to a wide range of people - as both audience and participants.
BFBB is one of the regularly funded organisations (RFO) and was pleased
to retain its RFO status in the latest review of ACE spending, at a time
when a total of 185 organisations did not have their funding renewed and
27 organisations had their funding reduced.
To find out more about the work of ACE visit their website:
