Two Keswick arts venues have been given a total of £165,000 to help them recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
Theatre by the Lake has been awarded £87,699 and Keswick Museum and Art Gallery £77,400 from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has announced details of over 2,700 organisations being offered nearly £400 million in grants and loans to help the culture and heritage sector reopen and recover.
This brings the Government’s total investment across grants, capital and repayable finance from the Culture Recovery Fund so far to more than £1.2 billion across over 5,000 individual cultural and heritage organisations and sites.
The funding was reserved in the first round of the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to allow the Government to respond to the changing public health picture.
Mr Dowden, said: “Our record-breaking Culture Recovery Fund has already helped thousands of culture and heritage organisations across the country survive the biggest crisis they’ve ever faced.
“Now we’re staying by their side as they prepare to welcome the public back through their doors – helping our cultural gems plan for reopening and thrive in the better times ahead.”
Dame Judi Dench, patron of Theatre by the Lake which hosts the Keswick Film Festival, said: “Local cinemas are a vital part of our cultural lives, enthralling us with films about lives that we recognise as well as offering us stories about other cultures from around the world.
“They are places where people come together for a shared experience and have inspired many to make their careers on screen.
“We need to make sure that generations today and in the future have the same opportunities to enjoy and take part in the communal big screen experience.”
Other organisations which were given support include:
- Lakeland Arts £405,920
- Rosehill Arts Trust £176,807
- The Beacon Museum £263,253
- Kendal Brewery Arts Centre £118,900
- Solfest Ltd £75,000
- Carnegie Theatre Trust (Workington) £25,984
- The Wordsworth Trust £121,138
- Fluid Productions Ltd £205,450
- Signal Film and Media £37,500
- The Bread and Butter Theatre Company £61,200
- Eden Arts £81,269
- Annie Mawson’s Sunbeams Music Trust £54,825
- Highlights Productions £28,733
- Northern Morris Cinemas (Bowness) Ltd £26,313
- Prism Arts £35,000
- Ulverston Coronation Hall £67,111
- Ullswater ‘Steamers’ £425,000
- Rydal Mount £31,330
- Greenwich Leisure Limited – which runs the Sands Centre in Carlisle – £2.9 million nationally
