{"id":7994,"date":"2025-02-21T10:52:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spotlight.com\/?p=7994"},"modified":"2025-06-02T16:26:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:26:19","slug":"270-million-arts-everywhere-fund-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spotlight.com\/news-and-advice\/the-industry\/270-million-arts-everywhere-fund-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a3270million in Extra Funding for Arts and Cultural Venues Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Arts Everywhere fund includes a commitment of \u00a385 million for cultural venues including theatres and performing arts venues.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, today (Thursday, 20 February) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced a new \u00a3270 million Arts Everywhere Fund to help arts and cultural organisations in urgent need of financial support. This follows the government\u2019s previous announcement of a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotlight.com\/news-and-advice\/spotlight-welcomes-60m-boost-for-uk-creative-industries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a360 million investment in the UK creative industries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Included within the announcement is a commitment of \u00a385 million for capital works at arts venues \u2013 a much-needed boost for theatres and other performance venues. The investment will be allocated to organisations in urgent need of financial support to remain viable, carry out vital infrastructure work and improve long term financial resilience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During her announcement speech, Lisa Nandy said, \u201cThe funding we are announcing today will allow the arts to continue to flourish across Britain, creating good jobs and growth by fixing the foundations in our cultural venues, museums, libraries and heritage institutions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The announcement, made at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon, marks 60 years since the first arts white paper, issued by Labour arts minister Jennie Lee, that promised a vision of \u201carts for everyone, everywhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We welcome the announcement today of the \u00a3270m funding for arts and culture, and particularly the \u00a385 million Creative Foundations Fund to support urgent capital works,\u201d said Matt Hood, Spotlight\u2019s Managing Director. \u201cTheatres and other performing venues need urgent investment to keep them safe and available for cast and crew to continue to provide their internationally recognised work. We look forward to seeing what the Fund will achieve with these much needed funds.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gov.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find out more about the Arts Everywhere investment on Gov.uk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arts Everywhere fund includes a commitment of \u00a385 million for cultural venues including theatres and performing arts venues. Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, today (Thursday, 20 February) announced a new \u00a3270 million Arts Everywhere Fund to help arts and cultural organisations in urgent need of financial support. 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