Final evaluation of Unboxed science and arts festival confirms it failed to reach ‘public awareness’
At a cost of £116.8m to the taxpayer, the Unboxed science and arts festival was supposed to bring the the UK together in a post-Brexit love-fest and enhance our international reputation: to “showcase what makes our country great today”.
The final evaluation, however, has found that the festival commissioned by Theresa May in 2018 and christened a “festival of Brexit” by Jacob Rees-Mogg, bought together a fraction of the audiences hoped for – and raised a fraction of the financial benefit it was predicted to reap.
Continue reading…Final evaluation of Unboxed science and arts festival confirms it failed to reach ‘public awareness’At a cost of £116.8m to the taxpayer, the Unboxed science and arts festival was supposed to bring the the UK together in a post-Brexit love-fest and enhance our international reputation: to “showcase what makes our country great today”.The final evaluation, however, has found that the festival commissioned by Theresa May in 2018 and christened a “festival of Brexit” by Jacob Rees-Mogg, bought together a fraction of the audiences hoped for – and raised a fraction of the financial benefit it was predicted to reap. Continue reading…