The Heritage Lottery Fund will now be known as The National Lottery Heritage Fund. This is intended to make a clearer link between playing the National Lottery and the good causes that benefit. The Big Lottery Fund, the UK’s largest community funder, changes its name to The …
Data Protection and Brexit – is your organisation prepared?
The Government is making preparations and wants to make sure that you are ready too, particularly when it comes to your data. Businesses of all sizes should check that you won’t lose access to vital data if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. …
Coastal heritage assets to be saved with almost £1 million of Coastal Revival Fund
23 coastal projects are to receive a share of nearly £1 million from the Government’s Coastal Revival Fund. Two sites on Historic England’s ‘at-risk’ register are to receive over £80,000. These include Banksy’s Pinwheel in Weston-super-Mare, a community project in a derelict smugglers’ inn in Cornwall, and …
Five areas to share £20 million to invest in culture
Grimsby, Thames Estuary, Plymouth, Wakefield and Worcester will receive millions of pounds of funding to invest in culture. In the first government investment of its kind, Grimsby, the Thames Estuary, Plymouth, Wakefield and Worcester will use the funding on local cultural plans which are tailored to …
More funding to help town centres and high streets thrive
Communities across the country can bid for up to £50,000 to help make local areas more attractive for business, High Streets Minister Jake Berry MP has confirmed. The latest round of the £500,000 British Improvement Districts (BIDs) Loan Fund will support business owners and local leaders …
DCMS Secretary of State, Jeremy Wright’s, Value of Culture speech announces summit on the measurement of cultural value
In his speech at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on the Value of Culture, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Jeremy Wright said: The exciting growth of digital culture means that our traditional creative institutions have been able to reach new global audiences, for example through …
Immigration and no deal
If the UK leaves without agreeing a deal the Government will end free movement, and this will happen as soon as practically possible. The Immigration and Social Security (EU Withdrawal) Bill has been introduced to achieve this. An announcement has confirmed that, if there is no deal, there will …
Michael Ellis’ speech at Theatres Trust: Theatres at Risk launch
Minister for Arts, Heritage and Tourism, Michael Ellis gave a speech to the Theatres Trust’s: Theatres at Risk 2019 launch at Alexandria Palace which the Alliance was delighted to attend. Three theatres were added to the register in 2019: Theatre Ardudwy in Harlech, Tottenham Palace Theatre London and the Intimate …
Hastings pier campaigners looking to prevent future sell-offs
Civil Society has reported on how the local group that failed to buy Hastings pier has launched a campaign to scrutinise the laws around community assets that have been sold off without consideration for local community interests, to prevent future community assets being sold off cheaply to …
Co-op Community Wellbeing Index
The Co-op Community Wellbeing Index is “the first measure of community wellbeing at a neighbourhood level across all four nations of the UK” – it maps wellbeing in over 28,000 communities across the UK. The index is based on data in 9 domains including a Culture, …
Delegation to Italy – open call
The British Council is leading on an exciting bilateral season of culture taking place in autumn 2020 in the UK and in Italy, called UK-IT 2020. With this aim the British Council is organising a series of cultural delegations to Italy. The first, in the …
Natural Capital Committee’s sixth annual report
In the report, the NCC welcomes the 25 YEP and has provided advice on how best to meet its ten goals. Our single most important recommendation is that the 25-year plan must be placed on a meaningful statutory basis in the forthcoming Environment Bill promised …