Square chapel is a community-based arts centre in Halifax, Yorkshire. It exists thanks mostly to support from the Arts Council, which gave it ￡104,946 this year. The mighty Tate galleries-over a century old and spread across London, Liverpool and St Ives-gobble up ￡57111 of public funds each year. But such grants are in danger now, as Arts Council funds are cut by 30% across the board. Britain, which has long regarded its cultural institutions as one of the country's great attractions, can no longer afford to pay for them. If they are to survive, arts organisations large and small will have to learn some new tricks. On December 8th the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, used a speech to the European Association for Philanthropy and Giving in London to launch a new government strategy designed to promote giving to the arts and for cultural purposes more generally.
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