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Hay and Women's Prize win Culture Recovery Fund cash
The Hay Festival and the Women's Prize are some of the literature organisations to have benefitted from the latest round of the government’s Culture Recovery Fund administered through Arts Council England.
Hundreds of arts, heritage and cultural organisations across England will receive a share of £107m from the additional £300m announced in the latest budget for the Culture Recovery Fund, bringing the total cash support package made available for culture during the pandemic to close to £2bn. It was part of a package announced by the government in March 2020 to alleviate the effects of the pandemic on cultural enterprises.
Altogether around a dozen literature organisations won funding from the latest round of funding in continuity support grants. Hay Festival won £700,000 while the Women’s Prize Trust got £50,000 and the Ilkley Literature Festival received £27,000.
Other recipients included the National Association of Writers in Education, the Crick Crack Club storytelling organisation in London, Little Green Pig for young writers’ development in the south-east, indie publisher Saraband in Manchester and fellow independent Jellybooks in London. Also benefitting are Adverse Camber Productions which explores storytelling in Derbyshire, community events company Culture Squared in Bradford and Poet in the City which produces poetry-themed events in London.
Part of the funding, known as emergency resource support, has gone to Wimbledon BookFest and the Causley Trust, dedicated to the poet Charles Causley in Cornwall.
Darren Henley, c.e.o. of Arts Council England, said: “This continued investment from the government on an unprecedented scale means our theatres, galleries, music venues, museums and arts centres can carry on playing their part in bringing visitors back to our high streets, helping to drive economic growth, boosting community pride and promoting good health. It’s a massive vote of confidence in the role our cultural organisations play in helping us all to lead happier lives”.
