Yorkshire museums to get share of £270m 'Arts Everywhere' fund
Five museums in Yorkshire have been awarded funding as part of a £270m investment in arts and culture in the UK.The Museum of North Craven Life, in Settle, will receive almost £800,000, while the Land of Iron, in Skinningrove, will be given almost £656,000.Millennium Gallery, in Sheffield, will be awarded £315,000, the Bankfield Museum in Halifax, is to receive £442,000 and the Beck Isle Museum, in Pickering, will receive almost £400,000.Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said the money would be used to help venues in urgent need of financial support to remain open, protect jobs and carry out vital repair work.
The announcement marks 60 years since the first arts white paper, issued by Labour arts minister Jennie Lee, that promised a vision of "arts for everyone, everywhere".Heather Lane, honorary curator of the Museum of North Craven Life, said the money would pay for repairs to the roof."We have had to close to the public several times recently because of water coming in," she said."The funding will relieve us of this problem, and will go a long way to helping protect the collections we have on the site."Nick Weffon, marketing manager at Land of Iron - which charts the history of the region's first ironstone mine - said the funding would help to "stabilise, preserve and restore" parts of the the mine not previously open to the public.Meanwhile, Kirstie Hamilton, director of programmes at Sheffield Museums said the funding would support repairs to the Millennium Gallery's escalators."We're hugely grateful for this vital investment into the building's physical infrastructure, enabling us to continue to create and deliver inspiring, accessible experiences for years to come," she said.Ahead of a speech in Stratford-upon-Avon, Nandy said: "The funding we are announcing today will allow the arts to continue to flourish across Britain, creating good jobs and growth by fixing the foundations in our cultural venues, museums, libraries and heritage institutions."Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
BBC News
20 hours ago
- BBC News
Tate Liverpool gallery gets £12m cash boost to reopen by 2027
A gallery that has been shut for two years due to problems finding funding has been given a £12m grant that could help it reopen by 2027. Tate Liverpool has been handed the cash boost from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to continue its refurbishment of the gallery on Royal Albert said the funding, alongside donations from the Garfield Weston Foundation, and the Ross Warburton Charitable Trust, will help the project stay on track for its Secretary Lisa Nandy said: "The transformation of Tate Liverpool will mean this amazing cultural venue can continue to flourish for future generations." Tate Liverpool's renovation will see the gallery "reimagined for the 21st century" by opening up spaces to display its collection and host world-class exhibitions, those behind the project have include a new public 'Art Hall' on the ground floor of the site, which first opened in 1988, and a greener gallery to reduce running costs and end the building's reliance on fossil Legg, Tate Liverpool director, said the "bold transformation" would help boost the visitor economy and act as a catalyst for regeneration on the waterfront. In May, Tate Liverpool announced the first major exhibition of artist Chila Kumari Singh Burmanm, focused on celebrating the rich culture of the North, will form part of the reopening programme. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Merseyside on Sounds and follow BBC Merseyside on Facebook, X, and Instagram. You can also send story ideas via Whatsapp to 0808 100 2230.
Daily Record
7 days ago
- Daily Record
Bus stop in West Lothian town's High Street forms part of striking art exhibition
Beautiful Materials extends from the walls of the gallery in Linlithgow A unique new art exhibition in a West Lothian town incorporates the transformation of a bus shelter. Beautiful Materials extends from the walls of the gallery and includes a High Street bus stop in Linlithgow. The striking solo exhibition by Glasgow-based award winning artist Nicola Atkinson has launched in the Gallery at the Linlithgow Burgh Halls. It presents the vessel as a container for ideas, and aims to question how we look at art and its materials. Nicola said, 'I became interested in how we see things every day as we often view the entire world now in miniature on our phones. As a result, I created a scale model in the gallery where you can imagine you are a giant within the eight Georgette and Velvet floating wall hangings with wee velvet vessel paintings.' The bus shelter is significantly located across from the Gallery at Linlithgow Cross, it features 24 naturally illuminated and transparent colourful Vessels artworks you can see clearly from the gallery windows, connecting the interior with exterior, and extending the boundaries of the exhibition. Internationally acclaimed, Nicola is known for the recent public artwork The Memory Tree which forms part of the award-winning Aberdeen Union Terrace Gardens and has created 145 public art projects, temporary and permanent in villages, towns, cities and museums around the world. Supported by West Lothian Council, Beautiful Materials solo exhibition puts the visitor front and centre in an active role of questioning art, how we digest what is around us, how we take part and then, what does it all mean. VESSEL ON LOAN allows local residents can borrow one of the exhibition artworks for their home, creating a domestic version of the exhibition. Nicola added: 'A recent survey for museums highlighted that a person spends on average 28 seconds looking at a piece of art,' Nicola added. 'This exhibition offers the visitor to have more time with an artwork to understand how the relationship to it can grow or change in the comfort of their own home.' Nicola has also published a stunning pocket-sized book to accompany the exhibition. Beautiful Materials runs until Sunday, September 21 and is open daily from 9am until 5pm. Nicola will also be presenting four events, an artist's talk on Wednesday, June 18 from 6.30pm until 7.30pm. VESSEL ON LOAN, July 2 and 16, 7pm to 9pm. There will also be a book signing on Friday, July 4 from 12 noon until 1pm at the Far From the Madding Crowd Bookshop, and a WEAR ART MUSIC event on Saturday, August 23 from 1pm to 3pm in collaboration with Stevie Jackson.
North Wales Chronicle
03-06-2025
- North Wales Chronicle
BBC boss supports ‘reform' to funding of broadcaster
The Government is set to launch the review of the BBC's Charter, looking at how it should be funded, after committing to increasing the licence fee in line with inflation each year until 2027. In April, there was a rise from £169.50 to £174.50 in the household charge, after years in which the licence fee was first frozen and then increased at a slower rate than the BBC expected, leaving the corporation increasingly cash-strapped amid rising inflation. At the Media and Telecoms 2025 and Beyond Conference, from Enders Analysis and Deloitte, in London on Tuesday, Mr Davie said: 'I want to justify the value that we have. I want that protected. 'I think there is reform (needed) in terms of potential (changes to the) licence fee, how progressive it is, and you'll debate the enforcement question.' He added that he does 'not want the same system' in the future, but said: 'I do want universal funding, and I want a proper investigation of begrudging, grinding cuts that we've seen over the last 10 years, which has just not helped.' Mr Davie also told the event, at Convene Sancroft in the St Paul's area, that he is concerned about the people who 'don't care' about the BBC and are 'disengaged', rather than people who criticise the corporation. He said he wants to 'celebrate the fact that people care', as the BBC features heavily on 'front pages' in the UK. Mr Davie also indicated he was positive about the use of artificial intelligence (AI), before saying the BBC has 'very big ambition around the media supply chain' including the 'need for muscular partnerships with the big American technology companies'. Later, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told the event she is 'determined to find a way forward that works for the creative industry and creators' and technology companies after Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney criticised the Government's AI plans. She added that 'there are no easy solutions, but this Government is determined to work with you to find a solution with transparency and trust as its foundation'. 'We are a Labour Government, and the principle that people must be paid for their work is foundational,' the MP for Wigan added. 'And you have our word that if it doesn't work for the creative industries, it will not work for us. People are at the heart of this industry.' She also promised that the BBC Charter review will be launched 'later this year to support a BBC that is empowered to continue to deliver a vital public service funded in a sustainable way'. Ms Nandy said: 'Later this month, we'll publish a creative industries sector plan to turbo-charge the growth of creative industries right across the UK, to support film and TV clusters from Birmingham to Belfast, to tap into the huge potential of the growth that exists across our country.' She also committed to no 'new taxes' or 'levies', after calls for a levy on streaming companies to protect UK broadcasters, and said the Government wants to 'ensure that we have a regulatory framework that incentivises inward investment, that creates opportunities for businesses, both big and small'. In another session at the same conference, Kevin Lygo, managing director of ITV's media and entertainment division, spoke about the need for 'prominence' for the UK's national broadcasters amid their increased competition with streaming companies. He said: 'I think you have to go back to first principles, because all this discussion is based on the programme itself being worth watching. So I think that's the key for major broadcasters is to never lose sight of making them.' Mr Lygo also appeared to confirm that the hit ITV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, which shone a greater spotlight on the Horizon IT scandal, is starting to become a commercial success, following multiple actors, including Toby Jones, saying that they took a pay cut to be on the show. Mr Lygo said it is 'harder and harder to find the budgets', and admitted that at first, it was difficult to explain a series 'about a computer hitch in the British Post Office' to foreign buyers. 'The UK is in this wonderful position when a show really works in the UK, everybody across the world knows about it and wants a piece of it,' he said. 'So, yes, I'm sure, I don't know exactly (the profit) by the production company, but I'm sure they've got their investment back.'
