Private Wealth Plugging The Holes In UK Arts Budgets

“Individual donors are surpassing companies as the U.K.’s biggest arts benefactors. They are giving museums, concert halls and opera houses money to expand, beef up programming, or stay afloat. U.K.-based individuals gave 262.4 million pounds to the arts in 2005 — the latest figures available — almost twice as much as businesses, which gave 153.4 million pounds, according to Arts & Business, a London-based charity that links the arts with business donors.”