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Britain's museums, visual arts, music, theatre and films are a constant inspiration to creators such as ourselves. Yet the Government's steady investment in the arts, which has borne such fruit over the past 10 years, now appears to be under threat.

This vital investment, upon which our future depends, represents a tiny proportion of the Government's overall expenditure. It would be a tragedy if the lifeblood of the arts and the creative industries were to be cut off just at the moment of such success.

Ozwald Boateng, Melvyn Bragg, Sir James Dyson, Tracey Emin, Lord Foster of Thames Bank, Antony Gormley, Zaha Hadid, Jonathan Ive, Anish Kapoor, Lord May, Alexander McQueen, Sir Paul Smith, Dame Vivienne Westwood