English to Italian Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting

In consultation it was suggested that longer-term funding may in fact work against innovation and risk-taking and bring about complacency. However, it is my belief that an excellent practitioner or organisation always strives for constant improvement, and may in fact never accept that they are excellent. This scheme would require a special form of assessment, alongside that proposed later in the report, which would need to be drawn up according to the specific plans of each organisation.

Those who fund the arts and those in receipt of funding have a duty to continuously encourage innovation. For funders this is about making sure that it is possible to have new entry to the funding system. Funders need to actively seek out new and challenging work and bring it into the portfolio of funded organisations. The system must be permeable to new talent and new ideas from across the whole cultural spectrum.