Lakeland Arts will receive £348,783 from the third round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.
The organisation, which runs Windermere Jetty Museum, Blackwell – the Arts & Crafts house and Abbot Hall in Cumbria, is among 925 recipients to benefit from the latest Culture Recovery Fund allocations.
More than £100 million has been awarded to hundreds of cultural organisations across the country in the latest round of support, the Culture Secretary announced on Friday.
The award will go towards essential operating costs and overheads to bridge the winter period, having operated with a reduced capacity and lower visitor numbers due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.
Rhian Harris, chief executive Lakeland Arts, said: “Like all cultural organisations across the country, we have faced a challenging couple of years. This third round of funding is really welcomed and helps us to recover following the pandemic and come out stronger in 2022.”
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said: “Culture is for everyone and should therefore be accessible to everyone, no matter who they are and where they’re from.
“Through unprecedented government financial support, the Culture Recovery Fund is supporting arts and cultural organisations so they can continue to bring culture to communities the length and breadth of the country, supporting jobs, boosting local economies and inspiring people.”
Over £1.2 billion has already been awarded from the unprecedented Culture Recovery Fund, supporting around 5000 individual organisations and sites across the country ranging from local museums to West End theatres, grassroots music venues to festivals, and organisations in the cultural and heritage supply chains.
