Equity sends open letter to PM over cuts
Equity’s new ruling council has written an open letter to David Cameron warning that it “does not make any logical economic sense” to make significant cuts to public funding of the arts and broadcasting.
Sent on behalf of the union’s 36,500 members, the letter is signed by members of the Equity Council, including its new president Malcolm Sinclair, who is currently appearing in the National Theatre’s The Habit of Art.
It says: “Any significant cuts puts at risk the work over many years of many thousands of arts and broadcasting staff represented by our organisation. In our opinion, cuts would mean significant damage and many organisations would simply collapse.”
Equity’s letter follows warnings from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to Arts Council England that it should prepare for cuts of as much as 30% over the next four years.
For the full letter, see this week’s print edition of The Stage
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