Welcome
In this issue the focus is on Philanthropy and the Arts, with the main feature offering a response to the announcement of a 10-point Action Plan to boost philanthropy across the...
DCMS Action Plan: An invited response
The10-point plan looks like a good set of chapter headings for further work. It’s also good to see much of it focussed on giving rather than asking: there was too much discussion at the launch...
Will the strategy have a ‘real effect’ in boosting philanthropy? If that means, say, a 30% increase in philanthropic giving outside of the big national institutions during the life time...
This special edition of Philanthropy UK is extremely timely. It demonstrates the range of voices with experience on philanthropy that already exist within the arts, and as such can only help move...
Reacting to Jeremy Hunt’s speech, Lord Myners asserted that “fine words butter no parsnips". Perhaps a better culinary aphorism would be that “the proof of the pudding is in...
Is funding needed at all? Yes. It is the characteristic of a civilised society that it supports a vibrant, engaging, stimulating arts and cultural sector. A good proportion of costs should be borne...
The 10 action points seem to me to be sensible and practical in general. Some points such as promoting and increasing planned giving including legacies plus increasing giving from international...
The Action Plan is such a great idea: it’s just a pity we didn’t action it a bit sooner.
If a case for philanthropy – supported by new flexibility in tax arrangements,...
Let us remind ourselves of why people support the arts. They do so because of a passion for the art form, because they can see how their contribution will help the institution to flourish, to produce...
Only time will tell if the Action Plan will bear fruit but in a time of financial austerity there is real need to do something and this is a serious commitment at government level to address the...
The devil will lie in the detailed implementation of this Action Plan. The key concern here is that those organisations which are currently well-resourced may be likely to be the greatest...
Jeremy Hunt’s 10 point plan is well intentioned rhetoric at this point – the proposals are welcome but not yet sufficiently substantial to excite or galvanise. For example, the ambition...
Overarching all else is my firmly held view that an essential component in any action plan designed to boost philanthropy in the UK has to be a package of additional tax breaks/incentives.
We welcome the fresh approach to cultural philanthropy as articulated by the Secretary of State for Culture. The aspiration to strengthen the mixed economy in which the arts and culture in this...
The culture secretary’s recent drive to encourage private philanthropy is a laudable one, and like many good ideas it is a recurring theme rather than a radically new notion. In 1983 I was...
Further reading
Here we suggest supplementary reading that informs the current issues around philanthropy and arts funding.
Case studies
Here we feature two stellar case studies of philanthropy in the arts, both winners of Prince of Wales Medals for Philanthropy in 2010. The medal created by Arts&Business for HRH The Prince...
Both case studies are winners from the 32nd Arts& Business Awards (2010) which were created to mark outstanding examples of philanthropy partnerships between culture and commerce.
Case...
News features
Legacies are potentially the ‘golden goose’ for arts organisations says fundraising specialist David Dixon in his response to the DCMS Action Plan.
‘Harnessing technology’ is a phrase that pops up wherever there is a need to find new ways to raise funds – including in the DCMS Action Plan.
Many of our commentators also...
Corporate philanthropy
In recent months, the spotlight has fallen on ‘business’ to look to itself as a power for social good. Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, Lord Mayor of the City of London Nick Anstee,...
Impact investing
A brief round-up of developments from the impact investing world.
JP Morgan, Rockefeller and GIIN estimate impact investment market of $400bn-$1tr
‘Impact Investments: An Emerging Asset Class...
My philanthropic journey
In each issue we ask a philanthropist to share their story of giving. Here Gina Miller, co-founder of SCM Private, and Miller Philanthropy, shares her story.
“I cannot pinpoint my moment of...
Euroview
In each issue, we invite a contribution on a topical issue from philanthropic leaders across Continental European. Here Agnieszka Sawczuk, from Foundation for Poland, shares her thoughts on the...
Influential reading
In each newsletter, Philanthropy UK invites an influential person from the philanthropy sector to tell us what books have most inspired and shaped their approach to philanthropy.
Our ‘...
Publications reviews and notices
Sondra Shaw-Hardy and Martha A. Taylor with Buffy Beaudoin-Schwartz
San Francisco: Jossey Bass, September 2010. 304pp. Hardcover. ISBN 978-0470460665.
£28.99 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...
Patricia Illingworth, Thomas Pogge, Leif Wenar (eds)
By Jean Ellis and Milla Gregor
By Plum Lomax, Sarah Keen and Jonathan Lidster
By Sarah Hedley and Adrian Fradd
