The arts funding system favours organisations and places where investment has historically been directed and culture that attracts a mostly educated, white and middle class audience, academics have warned.
Speaking to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee’s ‘Countries of Culture’ Inquirylast week, Dr Lisanne Gibson of the University of Leicester criticised the recent White Paper on Culture, saying: “It is another piece of cultural policy that is based on funding what is already funded, rather than funding what it is that the majority of people might like to do in terms of their culture and leisure.”