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How to Test an Arts Organisation's Claims About Money, Audiences and Access
A reporter's method for checking an arts body's finances and audience figures against its public filings: Form 990, UK charity accounts, funder award lists and attendance definitions.
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How to report on a festival or community arts event without making people scenery
A field method for covering festivals, scenes and community arts: define the event, read its systems, count audiences with care, get consent, and verify money and licenses.
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How to Research an Archive and Report What the Records Can Prove
A step-by-step method for moving from a claim about a place to a defensible account: finding aids, the archival hierarchy, citations, requests, a research log and reporting gaps.
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How to establish what a building or object is before you judge it
A reporter's evidence chain for buildings and made objects: drawings against photographs, credits, construction, vocabulary and access, tested on the Farnsworth House record.
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Does UK arts funding reach the regions? Arts Council England and the levelling up agenda
Arts Council England levelling up: how NPO data by region moves public arts money, with named examples and the limits of the published figures.
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How Arts Council England, Creative Scotland and the Arts Council of Wales fund the arts
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A reporter's method for checking an arts body's finances and audience figures against its public filings: Form 990, UK charity accounts, funder award lists and attendance definitions.
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