Creative Scotland, 28 January 2025, Scotland

A project improving Scottish children and young people’s access to the arts has today announced that 88 awardees will receive a total of £65,095.40 in funding to progress their creative interests.

Canada Council for the Arts, 28 January 2025, Canada

It includes projects giving youth their first experience preparing an exhibition, projects with Indigenous communities to support their exploration of healing and oppression, as well as a program focused on climate and the local community’s relationship with water.

Department for Culture, Media & Sport, United Kingdom, 24 January 2025, United Kingdom

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy's speech on government plans to grow the creative industries, at the Creative Industries Growth Summit in Gateshead.

Arts Council England, 23 January 2025, England

Reading Well, led by The Reading Agency, provides millions of people with trusted, evidence-based books to help manage their mental and physical health. In this case study, learn more about how the programme is changing lives through reading, as well as keeping health experts and people with lived experience at its core.

Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts, 23 January 2025, Australia

The Australian Government has released its response to the Productivity Commission's study report into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual arts and crafts market.

National Endowment for the Arts, 21 January 2025, USA

Steps taken by PTC are good examples of some ways employers in the arts or elsewhere can be proactive in creating good jobs by starting ongoing conversations with their workers about their needs. There is no perfect solution, but “relentless incrementalism”—as Moskowitz described it—is critical to creating an environment where workers thrive and artists create great art.