Jack Gamble

Director, @_CFTA

[Trussell @TrussellUK]

🚨 BREAKING: half of people in the UK have lost access to community spaces - with families in the most deprived areas losing them fastest.

Parks, libraries, leisure centres are essential for our mental and physical health.

We all need places to connect. Especially when life is tough.

[The Arts and Minds Campaign @ArtsMindsCmpgn]

Jack Gamble, CEO, Campaign for the Arts introducing our second panel discussion. @_CFTA

Panel is discussing the challenge of lack of time & space in schools and changing perceptions.

[Jack Gamble @JackGamble]

The BBC’s Head of Arts and Classical Music TV, @suzyklein, says there was a 34% increase in viewing and listening figures for last year’s Proms across iPlayer and Sounds. On social media, over 50 million views.

[Jack Gamble @JackGamble]

At the launch of this year’s @bbcproms, which features 17 BBC commissions and co-commissions, Controller @classicjacko says: “The BBC commissions more new music than any other organisation in the world”.

[Philippa Childs @philippachilds]

BBC staff are already under significant pressure after previous redundancy rounds … further cuts of this scale will inevitably damage its ability to deliver on its public mission. The government must ensure that charter renewal puts the BBC’s funding on a more secure pathway

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

Incredibly important article for the future of the UK. Is Ofcom ever going to rein in GB News’ mockery of the broadcasting regulations?

[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

Our BBC consultation tool was used 8,478 times ⚙️

Every one of those responses will now be read and analysed by the government as it shapes the BBC's future funding and public purposes.

Thank you for showing up for the BBC's unique role in UK arts and culture 💜

[Jack Gamble @JackGamble]

But especially given the systemic pressures on its funding model, the BBC’s own future must now be secured with ambition and principle from the UK Government.

This is our chance to say so 👇
https://t.co/GEylVGrhzt

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[Jack Gamble @JackGamble]

We’re entering the final hours of the government’s consultation on the future of the BBC (deadline = 23:59).

Far more than just a broadcaster, the BBC is a cultural organisation with a unique role in our creative ecology and shared national life.

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https://t.co/GEylVGrhzt

[Jack Gamble @JackGamble]

No government that wants to grow the creative industries, break down barriers to opportunity, or build a more socially cohesive country with an inclusive national story, can afford to see the BBC diminished. It is an essential ingredient in the UK’s future.

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[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

⏳ The consultation closes on Tuesday.

🔧 We’ve built a tool to help you respond quickly and effectively.

🗣️ Make your voice heard: https://t.co/YLmIJH9gQa

[The Voice of the Listener and Viewer (VLV) @vlvuk]

Looking for evidence to advocate for the BBC's central role in UK culture for your response to Charter Review, look no further e.g. "The BBC broadcasts close to 28,000 hours of arts, classical music & culture content annually to an average of 22million UK adults each week

[Crispin Hunt @crispinhunt]

Music lovers. Plz send your comments to this 👇BBC consultation. Fans of rich, diverse & varied Music choice , plz, make your views heard: BBC plays 10’s of 1000’s of different pieces of music each year, whereas commercial broadcasting plays 1000’s. ❤️#BBC @UK_Music

[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

🚀 NEW REPORT 🚀

🔮 Decisions the Government is about to take will define the next decade of the UK's largest cultural organisation. If the arts are to remain central to the BBC’s future, we need to make the case – together, and now.

https://t.co/YLmIJH9gQa

[Jack Gamble @JackGamble]

We have invited all of our supporters to participate in the public consultation on the BBC Charter Review, which closes at 23:59 on Tuesday, and we've also launched an online tool to help people make their own response.

You can find it all here 👇
https://t.co/GEylVGrhzt

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[Jack Gamble @JackGamble]

𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 from @_CFTA about the UK's largest cultural organisation: the BBC.

As ministers begin the first review of the BBC for over a decade, we've analysed the unique and essential role it plays in UK arts and culture.

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https://t.co/GEylVGrhzt

[Jack Gamble @JackGamble]

And we suggest five principles that we believe should underpin the BBC's future funding to protect and strengthen these functions.

The report includes testimony from Campaign for the Arts supporters across the UK.

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[Jack Gamble @JackGamble]

We’re live now! Join us as all the parties debate
#ScotlandsCulturalFuture!

https://t.co/ZhMYGAjWi9

[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

🚨 ONE WEEK TO GO:

Your chance to hear all Scotland's main parties' visions and values for culture ahead of May's elections. Register free ⬇️

🔗 https://t.co/lIWGflk3i3
🗓️ Thursday 26 Feb, 7pm, livestream
🔓 BSL & live captions