Arts Council grant shutdown leaves creatives in limbo – and stunts UK innovation

A grant-giving system is offline for seven weeks, Fergal Kinney reports on the body-blow to creatives, and the precarity of the arts industry.

Artists across England are facing uncertainty after the Art's Council's grant-processing platform crashed, leaving thousands of applications for vital funding up in the air.

Grantium is the online portal where funding applications for Arts Council England [ACE] are submitted and managed. But with the portal going down at the end of July, the sector has b…