In a week of arts policy fuss around the Warwick Commission report, and just before the 50th anniversary of Jennie Lee’s White Paper (A Policy for the Arts) with its dream of state support for arts for all, it’s possible to think we’re on the edge of abandoning arts subsidy entirely – of giving in to this government’s austerity lie that there isn’t enough to go around, and that “enough” is a dream anyway. But in the past year I have seen brilliant people all over the country motivated and enthused, willing to give of themselves and their time to put community first – to make a creative difference right where they live.

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