All posts belonging to the DCMS tag can be found in the list below.
UK festivals may not survive if a government-backed insurance scheme against the risk of cancellation is not made available soon, according to MPs on the Public Accounts Committee. The parliamenta...
Tags: Culture Recovery Fund, DCMS, Festivals, UK FestivalsThe UK government has launched an “ambitious” new programme of research aimed at helping the sector make a stronger case for public and private investment in culture and heritage assets. The r...
Tags: Culture, DCMS, Heritage, Performance Venues, Research, VenueOrganisers of Glastonbury Festival have urged the UK government to provide “direct financial support” due to difficulties in obtaining cancellation insurance. Emily Eavis, who organises Glaston...
Tags: DCMS, Events, Festivals, Glastonbury Festival, insurance, Live Music Industry Venues and EntertainmentTicketmaster Sport, SecuTix and SeatGeek Sport have joined forces to develop a set of guidelines to support the return of fans to live sporting events in the UK. The work to identify a framework of...
Tags: DCMS, SeatGeek Sport, SecuTix, Sport Technology and Innovation Group, Ticketmaster SportThe Premier League has welcomed the UK Government’s new plans to welcome a limited number of fans back to stadiums, but warns that clubs will be operating matches at a financial loss. Fans will b...
Tags: Covid-19, DCMS, Finance, Premier League, Premiership Rugby, Reopening, SportMPs are set to consider evidence on how UK music festivals can survive in 2021, as COVID-19 has caused revenues to plummet by 90 per cent across the sector. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (D...
Tags: Covid-19, DCMS, DCMS Committee, Festivals, MPsLifeline grants worth a total of £18m have been allocated to eight arts and cultural organisations from the latest round of the UK's £1.57bn recovery fund. Historic sites and leading cultural org...
Tags: Arts Council England, Covid-19, Cultural Recovery Fund, Culture, DCMS, The Lowry, venuesUK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has conceded that “inconsistencies” exist around allowing spectators to attend indoor events in venues and theatres, while sports fans have been banned from watc...
Tags: Attendance, Covid-19, Culture, DCMS, Fans, London PalladiumNewly published festival guidance around Covid-19 has been rolled out to assist industry parties in assessing risk levels and planning festivals based on a “flexible, pragmatic and realistic approac...
Tags: AFO, AIF, Covid-19, DCMS, Festivals, GuidanceThe UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has revealed that pilot sporting events held in England this month will be restricted to 1,000 spectators amid a rise in the numbe...
Tags: Covid-19, DCMS, Pilot Events, Sport
