Darren Richard Henley CBE , born February 1973, is the Chief Executive of Arts Council England and an author of books about the arts. He is a member of the UK government's Creative Industries Council.
31-412: Artsmark is the quality standard for culture and creativity in schools and education settings, awarded by Arts Council England . The Artsmark award provides a clear framework for teachers and education professionals to plan, develop and evaluate their arts and cultural provision. Its aim is to increase arts provision in education. Artsmark awards are given at three levels: This award -related article
62-776: A Companion of the Chartered Management Institute in 2009, an Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University in 2010, an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2011, a Fellow of the Radio Academy in 2011, an Honorary Member of the Royal Northern College of Music in 2012, an Honorary Member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians in 2013, an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University in 2014, an honorary fellow of
93-412: A freelance radio journalist for stations including Invicta FM , LBC , and Classic FM (UK) , first working for Classic FM in 1992 as a weekend and overnight newsreader before becoming programme editor of the station's Classic Newsnight programme in 1995. He was made News Manager in 1996, Programme Manager in 1999, Managing Editor in 2000, Station Manager in 2004 and Managing Director in 2006. In 2014, he
124-507: A government-backed campaign to improve young people's music education in England. From 2013 to 2015, he co-chaired the government's Cultural Education Board, first with Schools Minister Liz Truss MP and Culture Minister Ed Vaizey MP and then with Nick Gibb MP and Ed Vaizey MP. His other arts related roles have included Chair of the Mayor of London 's Music Education Task Force, Patron of
155-543: A limited number of museums as Major Partnership Museums: 16 single museums or consortia were supported 2012–2015, and a further five were added for 2015–2018, bringing the total to 21. Arts Council England also supports other museums via "Strategic Funds." The council also runs the Designation Scheme for collections in libraries or museums of national or international importance, and is the English partner in
186-493: A national council of 15 members, including the chair. The national council meets ten times a year and is made up of representatives of the arts community with five of the members also representing the area councils. Each area council has a board of 15 members made up of representatives of their arts community and local government. There are five area councils: The chief executive of the Arts Council England
217-692: A revised charter in 1967. On 1 April 1994, it was divided to form the Arts Council of England, the Scottish Arts Council , and the Arts Council of Wales , each with their own new Royal Charter; the Arts Council of Northern Ireland already existed as a distinct body. At the same time, the National Lottery was established and the Arts Council of England became one of the distribution bodies. This increased responsibility saw
248-513: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article relating to education in the UK is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Arts Council England Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport . It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain
279-770: Is an open access programme for arts, libraries and museums projects. The fund supports thousands of individual practitioners, community and cultural organisations, distributing funds from the National Lottery. Grants awarded vary can be from £1,000 to £100,000. Project Grants is always open for new submissions. Funding to support individuals who are cultural and creative practitioners and want to take time to focus on their creative development. Grants are awarded in rounds. Several hundred National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) and Investment Principles Support Organisations (IPSO) are allocated funding in multi-year tranches to support their on-going programmes. In 2020 it administered
310-532: Is appointed by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. Alan Davey was chief executive from 2008 to 2014. He was succeeded by Darren Henley . Each area council has an executive director and each art form has a specialist advisor. The Arts Council England divides its funding into the following headings: Arts Council England is a distributor of a core funding programme, complemented by National Lottery funding. National Lottery Project Grants
341-549: Is embracing opera and music theatre presented in new ways: opera in car parks, opera in pubs, opera on your tablet". The cuts of £50m centred on London and included long-established producers of new writing, Stockroom, the Donmar Theatre and the Hampstead Theatre . In 2011, he undertook an independent review of the funding and delivery of music education in England for the Department for Education and
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#1732798643880372-744: The Culture Recovery Fund to arts venues and organisations in England affected by the COVID-19 pandemic From 1994 it oversaw a national capital fund with grants for new buildings, public art and the renovation of existing arts buildings. The story of the Capital programme is told by Prue Skene who chaired the Lottery Panel, in Capital Gains: how the national lottery transformed England's arts . Arts Council England supports
403-697: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport of the UK government. The following year, he authored an independent review of cultural education in England for the same two government departments. He was a member of the Scottish Government 's Instrumental Music Group, which published a report into instrumental music tuition in Scotland in 2013. From 2007 to 2010, he chaired the Music Manifesto Partnership and Advocacy Group, set up by Education Minister Andrew Adonis as part of
434-756: The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2015, an honorary member of the Royal College of Music in 2016, a companion of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in 2016 and an honorary fellow of Arts University Bournemouth in 2017. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Hull , Birmingham City University , Buckinghamshire New University , the University of the Arts London , York St John University ,
465-832: The Mayor of London 's Fund for Young Musicians, member of the governing body of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music , trustee and Vice-President of the Canterbury Festival and Commissioner on the University of Warwick 's Commission on the Future of Cultural Value. Henley has written or co-written thirty books on arts related subjects, including the Sunday Times bestselling Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Classical Music...But Were Too Afraid To Ask and an official history of
496-634: The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra . He is the co-author of The Virtuous Circle: Why Creativity and Cultural Education Count and the author of The Arts Dividend: Why Investment in Culture Pays and Creativity: Why It Matters . Henley's audiobook for children The Story of Classical Music was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005. He was a Finalist in the Station Programmer category at
527-822: The Sony Radio Academy Awards in 2008 and was named Commercial Radio Programmer of the Year at the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards in 2009, having been nominated in the same category in 2007. Classic FM won the UK Station of the Year Category at the Sony Radio Academy Awards in 2007, the Music Programming Gold Award in 2009, a Special Award to mark the station's 20th anniversary in 2012 and
558-514: The University of Buckingham (MA, history of art), Middlesex University (DProf professional doctorate examining the role of the outsider as an agent for change), Buckinghamshire New University (MSc, applied positive psychology) and Henley Business School (PGCert, coaching and behavioural change). He holds an FLCM fellowship diploma from the London College of Music at the University of West London . Between 1989 and 1994, he worked as
589-668: The University of Sunderland and Manchester Metropolitan University and an honorary MA from the University for the Creative Arts . He was awarded the Sir Charles Groves Prize for "his outstanding contribution to British music" in 2013 and the President's Medal by the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences in 2015 for "his contributions to music education, music research, and
620-444: The Arts Council had broken its own procedures. In 2005 it was announced that the Arts Council England's budget was capped resulting in an effective £30m reduction in its budget. In March 2006, the Arts Council announced a review of its National Office that would "enhance efficiency and delivery while continuing to provide respected and focused arts leadership and drive", while proposing to lose 42 posts, mainly arts specialists, so that
651-411: The Arts Council of England grow back in size to the point where it was larger than before the 1987 restructuring. In 2001 Chairman Gerry Robinson announced a further restructuring in which the Arts Council of England would be merged with the ten regional arts boards to form a single organisation: Arts Council England. In 2020, Arts Council England published 'Let's Create', a new 10-year Strategy for
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#1732798643880682-453: The Hamas troops were killed by Israeli snipers, before the remaining forces surrendered. The English Touring Opera attributed its firing of white musicians in 2021 to "firm guidance" from the Arts Council. Darren Henley He attended St Edmund's School Canterbury , and is a graduate of the University of Hull (BA Hons, politics), the University of South Wales (MSc, management),
713-669: The Parliamentary select committee responsible for its oversight for supporting a lottery-funded programme to subsidise UK film production that resulted in a series of films that failed to find distribution. There was also a series of costly capital projects such as the Royal Opera House and the Lowry Centre that required additional funding. In the case of the Royal Opera House the select committee found
744-716: The UK Museum Accreditation Scheme . In 2023, a gender critical woman, Denise Fahmy, won a harassment claim against the Council at an employment tribunal , which ruled that hostile comments about her beliefs at an internal meeting (which followed the Arts Council funded organisation London Community Foundation granting and then suspending a grant to LGB Alliance ), and other activity afterward, constituted "an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment" for employees with such protected beliefs. The Council attracted criticism from
775-453: The building stock of arts organisations and to create many additional high-quality arts activities. On 1 October 2011 the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council was subsumed into the Arts Council in England and they assumed the responsibilities of the council. The Arts Council of Great Britain was created in 1946 by Royal Charter on the initiative of John Maynard Keynes . It received
806-677: The inaugural UK Radio Brand of the Year Gold Award in 2013. At the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards, Classic FM was named Station of the Year in the TSA 1 million+ category in 2011, while Henley and Classic FM jointly won the Arqiva Gold Award in 2012. The station also won a Classic BRIT Award in 2012 and a Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2013. Henley was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1998,
837-802: The organisation will no longer have dedicated national leads for areas including contemporary music, interdisciplinary art, moving image, architecture, broadcasting, opera, social inclusion, and disability. Arts Council England's music policy was controversial within the jazz world. Chris Hodgkins, in his 1998 paper Jazz in the UK , pointed out that more than 90% of its music budget went on opera while jazz, with an equivalent audience size, received less than 1%. The funding landscape has improved since with funding for NWJazzworks and Manchester Jazz Festival 2012. Among other areas funding has diversified into youth music such as National Youth Choirs of Great Britain , National Youth Jazz Collective and South Asian Music Youth Orchestra (SAMYO) etc. On 11 May 2006 it
868-537: The sectors within its remit. 'Let's Create' includes a new vision statement, designed to inform Arts Council England's work and priorities to 2030: "By 2030, we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish, and where every one of us has access to a remarkable range of high-quality cultural experiences." The Strategy is structured around three outcomes: Arts Council England has also set out 4 'investment principles': Arts Council England has
899-477: Was announced as the new Chief Executive of Arts Council England , succeeding Alan Davey . In this post, in 2022 he presided over his organisation's funding cuts to established arts companies - notably the removal of English National Opera from the national portfolio of funded organisations - and caused further furore in the operatic world by suggesting that operatic performance in England and Wales needed to move away from theatres, as "A new generation of audiences
930-608: Was divided into three separate bodies for England , Scotland and Wales . The arts funding system in England underwent considerable reorganisation in 2002 when all of the regional arts boards were subsumed into Arts Council England and became regional offices of the national organisation. Arts Council England is a government-funded body dedicated to promoting the performing, visual and literary arts in England . Since 1994, Arts Council England has been responsible for distributing lottery funding. This investment has helped to transform
961-757: Was raised in the House of Lords by Lord Colwyn , as documented in the Lords Hansard Columns (1058 to 1060). In May 2015 the Board of Deputies of British Jews released a statement objecting to Arts Council England's funding of The Siege . The Palestinian play depicts a 2002 incident where armed Hamas fighters sought refuge in Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. A 39-day siege ensued, and eight of