- Leicester is set to benefit from the next round of the Conservative Government’s Culture Recovery Fund, with £35 million being provided to help iconic cultural and heritage organisations in England protect jobs as they recover from the pandemic.
- 341 organisations across England will receive a share of the emergency support package – giving a lifeline to music venues, theatres, galleries, museums, and cinemas as they overcome recent challenges and contribute to their local communities.
- This is part of the Conservative Government’s unprecedented Culture Recovery Fund, which has contributed £1.57 billion to around 5,000 organisations, the largest investment in the arts in our history.
Rupert Matthews has welcomed the announcement that thanks to the Conservative Government, 341 organisations across England will receive a share of £35 million in vital support from the Culture Recovery Fund.
This includes £152,000 for organisations in the City of Leicester – providing a lifeline for creative and cultural organisations who have found it challenging to recover from the impact of the pandemic. The organisations being helped include: Piccadilly Cinemas Ltd [£26,169] , HQ CAN CIC, [£35,086] Leicester Arts Centre Ltd [£61,340]and Soundhouse Leicester [£29,729].
The Culture Recovery Fund package has already provided £1.57 billion to more than 5,000 organisations and sites across the country, protecting an estimated 75,000 jobs and supporting almost 100,000 freelancers – and now the Conservative Government is going further.
The Conservative Government is supporting our world-class performing arts and live events sector through challenging times. This funding will help make sure that festival-goers and gig-lovers will be able to once more enjoy the live events that have been on hold over the past two years.
This funding will also support community focused creative organisations and projects to continue operating and recovering from the pandemic.
Commenting, Rupert Matthews said:
“The pandemic has been incredibly difficult for cultural and heritage organisations in Leiceter, and I will continue working with the Government to provide them with the funding and support they need to bounce back.
“The £152,000 being delivered by the Conservative Government will be a lifeline for local jobs in arts and culture – giving organisations the support they need to continue serving our community.
“We are boosting our local economy and widening access to arts and culture, so that everyone can once again enjoy the fantastic cultural offer here in our community.”
Commenting, Arts Minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay said:
“Being cut off from them during lockdown has underlined what a vital role cultural organisations play in their community up and down the country. The Government stood by them in the pandemic, and is determined that they should remain open and accessible to everyone - now and for generations to come.”
“I am very proud of the Culture Recovery Fund and the lifeline it has provided for cherished organisations in every part of the country.”
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Notes to Editors
We are helping our cultural sector to reopen and recover by:
- Putting a £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund in place to support the cultural sector throughout the pandemic. Key national and local cultural organisations in England have been supported thanks to this investment, helping the sector as it recovers and reopens (HMT, Budget 2021, 3 March 2021, link; DCMS, News Story, 5 August 2021, link).
- Introducing a Government-backed Live Events Reinsurance Scheme – allowing companies in the live events sector to plan with confidence. This scheme will see the Government act as a ‘reinsurer’, stepping in with a guarantee to make sure insurers can offer the products events companies need (DCMS, News Story, 5 August 2021, link).
- Launching a Tourism Recovery Plan to help recover domestic tourism to pre pandemic levels and support the sector to build back better from the pandemic. A new rail pass and vouchers for popular tourist attractions are part of our plan to return domestic tourism to pre-pandemic levels by 2022 and international tourism by 2023 (DCMS, Press Release, 11 June 2021, link).
