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burywoodturners:
When we applied for a Lottery Grant, we were turned down as we were an 'Arts group' and told to apply to the Arts Council!
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woodndesign:
An Email which I received regarding update.

The e-petition 'Petition to stop the government reclassifying craft as non-creative' signed by you recently reached 27,766 signatures and a response has been made to it.

As this e-petition has received more than 10 000 signatures, the relevant Government department have provided the following response: As a result of this consultation, many people in the crafts sector have the impression that the Government is considering dropping crafts from the creative industries. This is not true – the definition of the creative industries will continue to include crafts. The purpose of the work is, rather, to grasp the nettle of how we measure the contribution of the creative industries (including crafts) to our economy. That is why the Department for Culture, Media and Sport worked with the Crafts Council, amongst others, to prepare this consultation. This is the problem: when we measure the value of the creative industries, we have to use official statistics – namely the industrial and occupational codes used by the Office of National Statistics. These codes are agreed internationally, and they have never adequately reflected the contribution of crafts. For example, the ONS recently reclassified silversmiths as “other skilled trades”, making it even harder to identify specific crafts. Most craft occupations are subsumed within occupational and industrial codes which are mainly non-creative. In the consultation, therefore, we have asked people to make suggestions about how we identify crafts, so that we can make representations both to the Office of National Statistics, and in international fora, to ensure that crafts are appropriately identified and measured. We of course welcome consultation responses which propose robust technical solutions for how Crafts, as well as other creative sectors badly served by the official codes, might be better teased out from the official data sources and using the existing codes. Further clarification is provided here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/classifying-and-measuring-the-creative-industries-consultation-on-proposed-changes This e-petition remains open to signatures and will be considered for debate by the Backbench Business Committee should it pass the 100 000 signature threshold.

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Andy Coates:
update culled from another website:

The Department of Culture, Media & Sport has confirmed that it “clearly sees craft as a creative industry, and is not intending to reclassify craft as non-creative”.


After the government released a consultation paper announcing its proposal to reclassify craft as a non-creative industry in April, many in the industry have been voicing their opinion on the matter.

Property developer and broadcaster, Sian Astley felt so strongly about the plans, that she created a petition raising her concerns, which has since received more than 27,000 signatures.

In response to the industry’s outburst of concern, Creative & Cultural Skills announced that it was working with Creative Skillset to review the classification currently used by the Office of National Statistics to measure the creative and cultural industries.

As a result, the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) released a summary to explain its proposal to change how it classifies and measures the creative industries. It reads: “We have been using our current approach to measuring the creative industries since 1998. Our consultation on proposed changes to classifying and measuring the creative industries seeks views on the practical problem of improving these estimates by better identifying creative occupations and creative industries in available data sources, so that we can produce estimates which are comparable with the Office of  National Statistics.”

The DCMS has been in discussions about the proposals with partners across the creative industries for some time, co-ordinated by a working group, including Arts Council England and the Crafts Council.

The statement went on to say: “The consultation is not intended to pass judgement on which industries are creative and which are not. What can be measured in the DCMS Creative Industries Economic Estimates should not be confused with what are recognised as creative industries by DCMS.”

The DCMS public consultation on classification closed on June 14. Based on the outcome of the consultation, DCMS intends to publish an updated Creative Industries Economic Estimates in autumn 2013 which will be updated annually.

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