OpenCulture

Funding. It’s a funny old word, which has somehow become woven into the fabric of the UK culture sector, carrying with it a set of behaviours, values and models which are seldom tested. There are funders, and there are the funded. There are funding programmes, grants, calls for applications, initiatives and priorities. We have industrialised the process of distributing public and private money to achieve particular purposes. But what purposes? And is this really the best way to do it? (more…)