Hard Facts to Swallow Downloads

426kb	The Full Report
62kb	Executive Summary
537kb	Supporting Working Papers
152kb	ACE Lottery income and expenditure 2015-2020
98kb	Commentary on ACE's response
106kb	GPS Culture Comments
85kb	Headlines
77kb	Statement

THE REPORTS

The RoCC Report
The PLACE Report
Hard Facts to Swallow
A New Destination for the Arts
The Next Steps?

hard facts to swallow

Publication and provenance

Hard Facts to Swallow is the third evidence-based report produced by GPS Culture (Peter Stark, David Powell and Christopher Gordon) addressing the performance of Arts Council England in relation to its stewardship responsibilities for the arts in England. It offers a detailed analysis and evaluation of the Arts Council's investment plans for 2015–18 and is published on Friday 10 October 2014.

The report has been produced by the authors independently and at their own expense.

Arts Council England responded to Hard Facts to Swallow on 10 October. GPS Culture's itemised commentary on their observations can be downloaded here.