Visual Arts UK - Representative Bodies and Agencies Warn Jeremy Hunt of the Effect Cuts Will Have

" Across the sector there will be wide spread unemployment, closures, decline in public and economic benefit from past investment and consequent loss of established cultural and social capital within communities, including opportunities for volunteering and skills development."

With a joint constituency of at least 60,000 individual professionals, galleries, public collections, studio groups, visual art businesses, organisations and producing agencies  VAGA and eleven fellow representative bodies have written to the Secretary of State, pointing out the finely tuned ecology of the visual arts and urging him to consider carefully the timing and scale of the cuts. 

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