So, Publicly-Funded Galleries Aren’t Paying The Artists On Their Walls…

The Paying Artists Campaign has found that, of artists who have exhibited in publicly-funded galleries in the past few years, 71% have received no fee. Alongside this, two thirds of working artists reported to the campaign that they had had to turn down requests from galleries to exhibit their work because they couldn’t afford to...

Campaign: Tax-Free Sanitary Products

In the early 2000s former Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo campaigned for VAT on sanitary products to be lowered. As a member of the New Labour Government, Primarolo succeeded and in January 2001 sanitary products had their Value Added Tax (VAT) fixed at 5%.  Recently the issue has been re-discovered, with the ‘Stop taxing periods. Period.’...