Arts Council of Great Britain: records, 1928-1997

Series description

Context

The Regional Arts Boards (RABs) acted as arts development agencies for their various geographical locations. They were accountable to national funding bodies, such as the Arts Council, for their government funding. In addition to dealing with funding issues, the Boards offered advice, information and consultancy in order to help plan for the arts.

The Policy and Planning Unit inherited responsiblity for managing the Regional Arts Boards from the proceeding regional and planning departments of the Arts Council.

Scope and content

This series contains copies of the RABs' development plans with papers and correspondence relating to their production. From 1993 onwards most of these files are labelled as Corporate Plans, but prior to this a variety of descriptive terms are used; both one year and four year plans are included. The files also contain the Arts Council's assessment of, and reaction to, the plans; for some RABs the Proformas completed by the various ACGB departments, after an initial review of the corporate plan in question, are also included. See ACGB/108 for further details on individual RABs.

Arrangement

These files are arranged alphabetically by RAB name.

Access

General information on access to archives at the V&A is available on the archive pages of the V&A website.

Restrictions on access

Access to some unpublished material may be restricted and requests for access can take up to 20 working days to be processed. When applying for access, it is helpful if you can quote the reference number, title and covering dates of the file(s) in question. For very large requests you are advised to contact us to discuss your requirements. All requests should be sent to archive@vam.ac.uk or Victoria and Albert Museum Archives (ref. ACGB), Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road, London W14 0QX.

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