Glastonbury among those to share £400m from Covid recovery fund

Culture secretary announces details of second tranche of grants and loans for arts and heritage sector * Coronavirus – latest updates * See all our coronavirus coverage More than 2,700 arts and heritage organisations, from Glastonbury festival to Bamburgh Castle to the Young Vic, are to share £400m in grants and loans from the UK government’s culture recovery fund. The culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, announced details of the second big tranche of money from a £1.57bn fund, which was unveiled last July after warnings that the UK faced an irreversible “cultural catastrophe” without significant intervention. Continue reading...
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