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COMICS FUNDING IN COMPARISON TO OTHER ART FORMS
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Data gathered by thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org
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ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND
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NPO funding data 2023-2026:
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Opera:Approx. £43 million per year
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Ballet:Approx. £18.5 million per year
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Orchestras:Approx. £12.9 million per year
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Poetry:Approx. £784k per year
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Comics:£238k per year**A single comics organisation receives NPO funding- The Lakes International Comics Art Festival (LICAF)
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ACE Project Grants 2022/23
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*Includes i) less than 30k category & ii) 30k-100k category
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Opera (19 projects):Appox. £599634
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Ballet (6 projects): Appox. £163488
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Orchestra (20 projects): Appox. £1113465
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Poetry (33 projects): Appox. £1068647
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Comics (4 projects): Approx. £102,457**Comics got 0% funding in the 30k-100k category.
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*So far for 2023/24 data published by ACE (1st quarter) comics have had no project funding.
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(Caveat: The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC) has gathered this information from data published by Arts Council England. This data needs interrogating by experts and keyword search might not pick up all relevant projects.
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*Keyword searches - 'Opera', 'Ballet', 'Orchestra', 'Poet(ry)', 'Comic', 'Graphic Novel').
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NOTES:
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- The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC) have met with Arts Council England who are investigating these stats internally and have just set up a group to address this issue.
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- CCIC has been in touch with the Office of National Statistics (ONS) and the Operational Research Society who are keen to support further research.
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For further information please visit: thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org
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