{"id":9292,"date":"2025-02-17T08:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T08:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/?p=9292"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:18:20","slug":"budget-2021-investment-in-culture-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/budget-2021-investment-in-culture-increased\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2021: Investment in culture increased"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2021 culture budget is estimated to be at 1.6 per cent of total government expenditure, consistent with the trend in recent years.&nbsp;Per capita public investment in culture for 2020 is expected to reach \u20ac185 \u2013 in line with that of 2020.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of \u20ac31.7 million will be invested towards ACM&#8217;s funding programmes, initiatives and Public Cultural Organisations &#8211; a 13% increase over budget 2020. This includes the&nbsp;public funding portfolio awarded by Arts Council Malta which registered \u20ac3.4 million&nbsp;\u2013 an increase of 41% over that&nbsp;budgeted for&nbsp;2020. Investment in&nbsp;Public cultural organisations falling under ACM&#8217;s remit also increased by 12% over 2020&nbsp;with an allocation of&nbsp;\u20ac24.2 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The budget also announced an allocation of \u20ac1 million that will be dedicated to a new Culture Assistance Fund as a response to the impact of the pandemic on the cultural and creative sectors as well as&nbsp;\u20ac2 million to be invested in a concert hall. A commitment was also made towards the investment in a national symposium for culture and creativity in 2021.&nbsp;The Covid Wage Supplement will be extended and revised to reflect the current needs of the sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=pqPfmoWm3X0%3Frel%3D0%26hd%3D0\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The yearly analysis of the national budget conducted by Arts Council Malta reveals an overall increase of 5.4 per cent for culture, with a total budget of \u20ac95.2 million for cultural heritage, the arts, media and creative sectors for 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-mt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14483,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions\/14483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}